OC Guy
07-11-2001, 01:25 PM
Alright, from the begining. My dad bought a refurbished Dell Latitude LS with a PIII processor and 128 megs of ram. This thing runs hot(duh, PII!), and needs all the cooling it can get right? So when my dad brought it home and cranked her up, i heard this awful rattling noise, not a common rattling noise but a "oh ****" rattling noise. So me and my dad opened the case to find out what was making this noise. It was the cooling fan, no biggy, just order another one. It was a Sunon, and i figured, heh i can find this thing anywhere! So found the first online producer of Sunon fans and found(what i thought would be)the exact matching fan. My dad didn't mind paying the $8 for the fan, or the total of $31.89 to get the fan and get it here. He got COD and when the day we were waiting for had arrived, i gave the UPS man the check and took the box inside. My first impression was "WTF is this?!". The box looked like it had been kicked around like a soccer ball! The box had three pieces of tape on it, the first went long ways and the other two went on the sides the top two flaps to completely seal it. One the short peices had been cut. It gets better*cough*yeah right!*cough*. So when i opened it and pulled out the fan and opened the plastic package, the first thing i saw was it had no connectors! The next thing was on the bottom of the alumminom base there were black marks and scraches! How was i suppose to connect it to my dads on fan header? Then it hit me, time to pull out the old soldering iron! So after my dad soldered the new fan to the old connector, we were stoked because we thought we were done. My dad put the fan where it belongs and brought to my attention the old fan had two open slots to blow air across the RAM and the CPU heatsink. The new fan on the other hand had only one slot. After some careful thinking we decided not to pull out the trusty Dremel, not yet anyways. Then we decided that the cpu needed the cooling more than the ram. My dad preceded to screw down the fan and then we FOUND ANOTHER PROBLEM! The old fan had two predrilled holes in two corners as does the new fan but the old fan's corners had been milled down from the top and the bottom. In the laptop where the fan is supposed to be screwed down, there are two raised clynder pillars that have the threads that match the fans two holes. Since they are raised, the corners of the fans have to be milled so the fan sits in the right way in the case. So NOW i have to brake out the loyal Dremel and mill or grind down the two corners. This is my very first major computer MOD. If i f'ed up, my dad would have to order another fan and solder all over again and its back to the dremel. I'm happy to announce that i successfully ground down the two corners almost perfectly! So now my dad's laptop is breathing more silently and better actually!
Go here to find out about the fan used in the laptop! Just scroll down until it says PDF documents and under it click on where it says fan removal and replacement. http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems/latls/en/index.htm#online_documentation
I'll post somemore soon! But now I have to go!
[This message has been edited by OC Guy (edited 07-11-2001).]
Go here to find out about the fan used in the laptop! Just scroll down until it says PDF documents and under it click on where it says fan removal and replacement. http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems/latls/en/index.htm#online_documentation
I'll post somemore soon! But now I have to go!
[This message has been edited by OC Guy (edited 07-11-2001).]