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Dec 24, 2002, 01:45 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Kentucky
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fan quit working
i was at a friends house yesterday and he has a dell 4300 he bought thru our work program. anyway it was making noise and i thought it was the fan, so i too the case apart and started to clean it. geez there must have been 4 inches of dust on everything . i took his fan out and cleaned it then put it back in and turned on the computer now the fan does not work at all and i have treid hooking it up different ways and i had myself grounded while i was cleaning out the dust. is it normal for a fan to just quit all of a sudden? when it fires up it says fan failure any help would be appreciated
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Dec 24, 2002, 01:50 PM
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Colour Commentator
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Highland, IN USA
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This is dumb, and you shouldn't try it! But...
...have you tried spinning the fan blade with the fan off to see if it spins freely? If it was THAT clogged with crap, you might have accidently got some more junk underneath the blade and into the spindle jamming it up. I've had it where a fan didn't work, but when I 'started it' by spinning it with me finger it would fire right up and would work from then on. (That's the bit I don't really suggest trying, spinning it while there's power. It can work, but unless you're quick you can get a painful "WHAP!". I ain't that quick.
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Dec 24, 2002, 01:58 PM
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It Never.....
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Kentucky
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actually i did try that and still it did not work. they are having a dell tech come and fix it ,that is what they wanted i just thought it was kinda odd for it to quit workingall of a sudden
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