Hi all. I’ve been happily using my 11th Gen Intel 13inch happily for the past few years. Unfortunately, I noticed my laptop has been extremely sluggish and hot today. I got a shocked as I opened up the cover and noticed the fan has melted, and the bottom of the keyboard shows sign of heat damage. […

[image] Charlie_6: If a fuse blow, how hard would it be to replace the fuse? Since we normies don’t get access to the schematics so hard to tell. Definitely significantly harder than just plugging in a fan though. You’d have to find out where it is, measure it, source a replacement and solder…

[image] Adrian_Joachim: fan signal pins My 2cents: In this computer the fan speed doesn’t have closed loop feedback, the temperature only controls the fan PWM duty cycle. The four wires of the fan are power source, PWM signal, RPM reading and ground. If I remember correctly, of you plug a fa…

[image] Charlie_6: In this computer the fan speed doesn’t have closed loop feedback, the temperature only controls the fan PWM duty cycle. The four wires of the fan are power source, PWM signal, RPM reading and ground. Yes [image] Charlie_6: If I remember correctly, of you plug a fan dir…

[image] Adrian_Joachim: I have not seen a brushless dc fan (at least computing related) without a controller before. If I didn’t know any better I would have mistaken the controllers on some fans as just being a hall sensor. I think that depends on make and models. On one of BLDC cooling fans…

[image] Charlie_6: On one of BLDC cooling fans(a 12V 1.6A desktop computer cooling fan) that I own I’m able to adjust the speed by adjusting the input voltage (signal pin disconnected) or PWM the input power(not signal). No you can pwm the controllers, we do that all the time on 3d printers, …

[image] Charlie_6: If the heat sink is undamaged, is it possible to buy the cooling fan only? The fan itself appears to be disassemble from the heat sink The fan is not available separately from Framework. I imagine there must be a way to get the fan off, but it seems it’s a bit involved. A m…

Here are a few more photos. I peeled off the sticker as requested. [PXL_20241122_060149626] Is it fine leaving the keyboard hole unpatched? I’m worried about taping it up as if this happens again, the tape adhesive might melt and gunk up everything. [PXL_20241122_060104148]

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Thanks a lot for satisfying (at least some of) my curiosity. [image] Proton1: Is it fine leaving the keyboard hole unpatched? I’m worried about taping it up as if this happens again, the tape adhesive might melt and gunk up everything. I would reccomend against that. It is an open hole into …

Melted components from fan failure

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MJ1 November 21, 2024, 4:42pm 15

The fan is not available separately from Framework. I imagine there must be a way to get the fan off, but it seems it’s a bit involved. A member posted steps to open the fan casing to clean it (or replace the important half I guess) but didn’t see how to completely remove it.

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Melted components from fan failure

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