Oh the humanity...
So Last night I tried to clean up my lappy... defrag, uninstall useless software, update all installed games...and when I turned it on, I found it to be quieter than normal... Checking the exhaust ports, I found no airflow from the gpu port. Pulling the bottom panel off revealed my "worst" fear...dead fan. The part that really pissed me off was when I tried to call AW, I was notified that my warranty had expired...THAT VERY DAY.



Looks like I have to make a trip to the local parts house and do some garage engineering....what a pain, and just my luck.