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Inspiron 6000: I had the fan replaced, and it still makes noise!!!!

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3/28/08 at 10:09pm
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I am so tired of all the frustration my Inspiron 6000 has given me the past few weeks.

My fan has been making noise for a few months now. I've owned this notebook since Dec of 05'. I've had no problems with it, until the fan started up. The noise got worse over the past few months. I looked into replacing it myself, realized it required me to take apart a great deal of my laptop, so I purchased the fan online myself and just had it replaced at Microcenter.

I get my notebook back tonight, same noise.



What do you all think could be my problem? I also realized that at times my shortcuts don't appears on my desktop when I boot up until a few minutes pass. This happens probably 1 in every 6 times I start the computer.

I scanned my computer for viruses, spyware, nothing showed up. Ran CC Cleaner, disk defrag, etc.

Thoughts? My next move is to go back to Microcenter and spend $70 to run a diagnostic test, but I just spent $90 trying to fix it already ($50 for fan, $40 to have fan replaced).

ALL ADVICE IS GREATLY APPRECIATED! I am contemplating getting a macbook, but given my current financial state, I would really love to salvage my Dell if possible.

Thanks.
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3/28/08 at 11:30pm
You might need to have this thread placed in the general area, so many people can see it. I've seen many notebooks lose desktop icons due to bad memory modules, currupt or damgaed hard drive and even excessive amount of heat generated by the CPU itself.

When was the last time you've had your hard drive formatted?

Windows Defender and CCleaner are both free programs, and you should download and run them both. Then after that, a nice defrag of the hard drive is in order. There could be something hidden (spyware/adware) running in the background, causing your hard drive and other parts to run and heat up more than they should.
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