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Right, but it was working just fine earlier. It stopped. Then it was working fine again. And now it's stopped. If it was a dying fan, it would have gradually slowed down to a halt, and it didn't do that.

Any other ideas about what this might be? Or do you think it has worn out and stopped suddenly?

The latter scenario "slow down gradually until they stop" is what would have happened if it was the fan's fault, but latter didn't happen. It was running just fine and suddenly stopped (then started working again, then stopped again). This is why I was thinking it's something else.

It's been really noisy for a long time. When fans stop running, do they usually stop suddenly after running fine just before, or do they slow down gradually until they stop? I was thinking it might be the latter, which is why I was questioning this.

It's about 4 years old, and it's been on for a while over its lifetime. Sometimes it works just fine though.

When I turn my Gateway M-1625 on, the fan doesn't work. Right after the BIOS screen I get the message "Main fan error" and it won't start. Sometimes the fan moves just a bit right as I'm turning the laptop on. Sometimes I turn it on, the fan does work normally, and I can boot normally. This is...