My Lenovo laptop (Y500 I believe) has been bugging the living daylights out of me for months. The CPU fan kept going wild, spinning unpredictably, making a horrible noise, and actually slowing my PC down a bunch - especially on boot. The Windows 8 Desktop Windows Manager would take about 30 seconds to load.
I tried replacing my fan but stripped the screws, got frustrated, and just yanked out the power. Now it is running without a CPU fan but it is so wonderfully fast. Obviously there must have been something wrong with the fan.
I already have the replacement fan but I cannot do anything about it for about 24 hours when I get a chance to go to the hardware store and purchase tools to remove the stripped screw.
I am wondering - in the meantime, how bad is it to use this PC?
SpeedFan says:
Win9x:NO 64Bit:YES GiveIO:NO SpeedFan:YES
I/O properly initialized
Linked ISA BUS at $0290
Linked Intel 7 Series SMBUS at $4000
Found nVidia GeForce GT 650M
Linked nVidiaI2C0 SMBUS at $3D403E3F
Linked nVidiaI2C1 SMBUS at $3D403637
Linked nVidiaI2C2 SMBUS at $3D405051
Scanning ISA BUS at $0290...
Scanning Intel SMBus at $4000...
Scanning I2CNVidia SMBus at $3D403E3F...
Scanning I2CNVidia SMBus at $3D403637...
Scanning I2CNVidia SMBus at $3D405051...
Found SAMSUNG MZMPA016HMCD-000L1 on AdvSMART
Found ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB on AdvSMART
INFO : SCSI DISABLED by user or because iaStorA.sys is installed
Found ACPI temperature
Found Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz
End of detection
SpeedFan indicates Core's at about 65, 71, 68, 68 C, which is definitely hot but not insane. Intel rates it at 105 C max, for what it is worth.
Can I get away with this for 24 hours?