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  • Computer updates

    That growling/grinding I kept hearing? It was the right cooling fan. I noticed that when checking the fan speed, the right one was considerably slower than the left one, when the noise was going on (left: around 3000rpm, right: 900rpm). Mr. Giantpaper thought that the fan motor was dying, but just in case it wasn’t, he decided to apply some machine oil just in case.

    It worked. 😮 I guess it took a while for the oil to lubricate the entire thing, because after turning it on after putting it back together, we heard a constant low hum from the right fan (sounded like r-r-r-r-r-r, like it kept hitting something). It went away after about an hour. Now I can’t hear the fans period. :O The laptop also stays a bit cooler now. It’s still a little warm, but not cook-eggs-with-this hot like it used to be.

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  • Fellow Macbook Pro users, I think this is why it gets so toasty…

    Fellow Macbook Pro users, I think this is why it gets so toasty…

    (The dust and hairs ended up on the blankets after I opened the thing up. :o)

    See? Look at those wittle fans! Aren’t they so cuuuute? They aren’t muffin fans. Oh no. These are cupcake fans. 😀 Entire enclosure is 15.4in, so these fans must be about…3in each? I could kinda understand needing to find a balance between fan size and motherboard size, but if you’re going to have fans that tiny, at least have them run a little faster than they are now. I guess Apple didn’t want people to be put off by loud cooling fans, and yet…they don’t mind when their DVD drives/HDs starts to sound like a chainsaw… (great job, Apple).

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  • Giantpaper-01

    giantpaperbot - New HD

    Sorta…

    As an early birthday present, Mr. Giantpaper got me a new hard drive for my Macbook Pro. 😮

    The MBP (called humongousbot) has been making these angry grinding noises for a long time now. After looking it up online, I have found that the hard drive needs to be replaced. I looked up some compatible laptop hard drives on Amazon and settled for this 1TB Western Digital.

    Actually switching out the hard drives was a bit of an adventure (when Mr. Giantpaper and I looked for instructions online on how remove the hard drive, we saw that the data cable ribbon thing was connected to the drive as it should…and then glued on top of the drive itself…

    But once everything was in place, formatting the drive and installing the OS was easy (since the CD/DVD drive is busted, I already had converted my 8GB flash drive into a bootable drive with Snow Leopard install files on it).

    Other than a couple network-related problems (can’t access Google’s sites or Dropbox through the desktop app or their site), everything is splendid.