Grating buzzing sound fan dying??? oh and im really ticked off!!!!!!!!!!

my macbook 1st gen is making some horrible fan grating rruuurrrururrruurrrruruurr sound main vibration under keys 6 7
the fact that apple released a piece of junk such as this is shocking i have had many factory defective issues with the machine from the power outing heatsink to a dodgy airport which caused a total crash/panic a dead battery and a power adapter melt itself!!.
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Try booting up from your install DVD 1 by holding down the 'd' key to boot into the 'AHT' Apple Hardware Test see if you get any error codes

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