Recent content by Sandy_desert

All power connectors are secure, no wires are crossing the fan. All screws are seated flush and none are above or below the fan.

If the bearings were dying, I shouldn't have an unproblematic spurt of power at the beginning of it's load, right?

I have no settings in my current BIOS that affects fan speed, and the only software that might control it is SpeedFan, however, SpeedFan is a recent installation to check temperatures and I didn't touch the fan settings on that. The issue has been going on for several months now.

The fan on my laptop is no longer pushing out as much air or heat as it used to. While it's definitely not dead (there are spurts where it operates properly), it's normally working at a low buzz with occasional crunching sounds that I can also feel through the chassis. The problem is, there are...

Several restarts, driver uninstalls and reinstalls later, and still no mouse activity. The BIOS has no settings for the touchpad, despite that it would throw a different code if that were the issue.

After replacing the motherboard on a laptop (damaged by a drop), the mouse no longer works. The CD drive connects to the same component and works perfectly. Finding a damaged cable connecter, I replaced the mouse and the upper housing it's held in, only to find the problem persisted. Laptop is...