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27 minutes ago, Bling said:

Can you strip it down to just narrow down the fan part itself? I'd 100% just use a generic one, a fan is a fan IMO.

Yea I pulled it apart to see what the layout was, there are 2x fans that are mirrored, but I cannot find a part number for just that one.

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Sounds like you're sorted then. Dell won't be making their own fans, so if you find some that match i'd go for it. I had to do that for a fuel pump today, looks the same so hoping for the best.

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5 hours ago, ThePog said:

Its a Precision 7560 with an Nvidia RTX GPU

Chances are the fans just have a plain bearing. Pull them apart, put a drop of 3 in 1 oil or similar in and they will be good for years again.

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5 minutes ago, ajg193 said:

Chances are the fans just have a plain bearing. Pull them apart, put a drop of 3 in 1 oil or similar in and they will be good for years again.

Worth a go for sure.

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On 02/09/2026 at 21:13, ajg193 said:

Chances are the fans just have a plain bearing. Pull them apart, put a drop of 3 in 1 oil or similar in and they will be good for years again.

I did this and it has quietened down a fair bit. But that fan you could physically rock the moving assembly a tiny bit, which you couldn't with the other one. But at least now I have the specific fan model so have ordered one off Alix.

But in the meantime it isn't screeching at me :)

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I'm doing a wee PCB with some radio boards. Interestingly ,as uProcessors and peripheral devices are getting more complex and more configurable, there's less 'glue' logic and parts these days.

I have just now added R31 and R32, so I get some small satisfaction from that :)

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Is anybody here having issues with accessing their xtra email through thunderbird today? My dad can't access his email and my very limited technical skills are not much help.

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Crisis averted. The issue seems to have been largely due to a mild case of oldgeezeritis. 

The program was hung up somehow, wouldn't open properly or close.

When I went to restart the machine I saw it had updates pending so went "load updates and restart" and it did that and now everything just works.

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