Fan Noise Loud

[Tezerr_3]

Recently, the fan in my Asus X502c is really, really loud. It starts making a whirring sound from bootup and persists. This has caused it to overheat - temperatures 80+.

 

[greens]

It is probably clogged with crud. Pop off as many panels as you can and see if you can't blow it out.

You may need to remove the bottom, shouldn't be too complex, then you could really get the thing cleaned up. just keep track of screws.

 

[Benab3]

Hey,

The fan will be getting loud due to the computer overheating. It will not be the cause of it.

To cool your computer down, try opening it up and blowing out the dust with a can of compressed air. Also, it that doesn't work, replace the thermal compound between the CPU and CPU cooler.

 

[Tezerr_3]

It is probably clogged with crud. Pop off as many panels as you can and see if you can't blow it out.

You may need to remove the bottom, shouldn't be too complex, then you could really get the thing cleaned up. just keep track of screws.

I did this. I think the dust I removed from the top of the fan just further clogged up the bottom of it - meaning it's now even worse. Now my perfomance has dropped significantly and temperature rises much faster up to 100 C sometimes.
I can't get to the underside of the fan as it means taking it apart even further - something I am not confident in doing.

 

[ffg7]

what are you using to get rid of the dust as in blowing into laptop, compressed air, paint brush or what?

 

[Tezerr_3]

what are you using to get rid of the dust as in blowing into laptop, compressed air, paint brush or what?

Small brush & blowing

 

[ffg7]

do you know anybody that has either a can of air, an air pig or an air compressor?

 

[Tezerr_3]

do you know anybody that has either a can of air, an air pig or an air compressor?

No lol

 

[ffg7]

is there a car mechanics workshop or a carpenter's wood workshop nearby to use their air compressor?

 

[Tezerr_3]

is there a car mechanics workshop or a carpenter's wood workshop nearby to use their air compressor?

I live in a pretty remote area and as such no... is there any other way? Its really loud and heats up super quick.

 

[ffg7]

any vents on the bottom of laptop by the fan? any air coming out of the vent on leftside of laptop?

 

[Tezerr_3]

There is one vent on the bottom. There are no vents on the side - rather the side closest to the screen. I can feel some (very little) coming out of it.

 

[Benab3]

When you said you cleaned it out, did you take of the side panel and clean out the CPU heatsink?

 

[ffg7]

Tezerr_3, the side vent that has some little air coming out is your main vent so keep trying to clean it out.

Benab3, laptops don't have side panels only towers.

 

[Benab3]

Tezerr_3, the side vent that has some little air coming out is your main vent so keep trying to clean it out.

Benab3, laptops don't have side panels only towers.

Oops. Thought it was a desktop computer...

 

[Tezerr_3]

Ok, I tried my best to clean it out - the fan still remains super loud and permanently on. It stays off until my laptop reaches temps around 50C and then never turns off again.
It actually seems like due to the fan constantly running my CPU overheats...