Thinkpad T60 fans making sound

Hello all,
I had this thinkpad t60 for 10 months now, lately I noticed there's an noise coming from the fans located on the left side of the laptop when the systems heat up at 92º F. The noise last about a few seconds during the warming up stage, then its quite like normal, it's repeats a few times during the laptop is ON.
I don't know if anyone has the same problem, I'm thinking of something might get stuck blocking the fans or the oil is dried out.
Any help would be appreciate.
Thanks.
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Thinkpad T60 fan noise

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I own a Lenovo Thinkpad T60 laptop. Lately fan of my laptop started making a whirling sound. Its been only 2 years since i have purchased the laptop and now i am running with this horrible fan noise.
I want to replace the fan with a new one. So i have checked the hardware manual of Lenovo and found out that at some point i have to apply thermal great at a location of fan assembly at the time of installation.
What thermal grease i have to use for this. If i buy the fan assembly at Lenovo, will they send me the thermal grease also.
Also do i need to buy the same fan model as the existing one... If it so, where can i find the fan model in my system..
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Hello,
the simpliest method is to use your 3years warranty and send it to depot.
The other way is to do a parts look-up on Lenovo support page, see link on top of this page.
Then your get the FRU number, search for it at Google, also for thermal grease like Arctic Silver.
The fan isn´t very expensive may be 30$ and it´s not difficult to deploy it. But you will loose warranty!!
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Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
I’m sorry to hear that fan in your Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga is making noise.
If your laptop feels hot and shows any of the problems below, chances are its overheating or getting there:
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[SOLVED] Too average sound level [Thinkpad T60]

Hi,
Since a week I've changed my computer to an old one, a Thinkpad T60 (2006). And ArchLinux works mostly fine except for the sound level. In each programs, even in alsamixer, I put everything to the maximum level (Master, PCM, sound level of the program etc) and it's still too close of an average level. My speakers on other device are two times stronger than on the T60. Even if I plug headphone the sound is still too close of the average power of my speaker.
Since it doesn't seems to be a configuration problem and if the speakers works great as usual, it seems to be a problem related to the T60. I've tried the mini jack on the laptop and the one on the dock, still the same result. I've also a Razer keyboard which have a mini speaker input too, same problem.
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make sure your ventilation ducts are clean from dirt, Vista put lot more strain on every component of your laptop, so the temperature increase should be normal. Xp is lot less demanding on computer compoents, however it does sound like your heat ventilation fan and fins are clogged with dusts. So open up the laptop to clean away any dusts that maybe there.

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At startup, my Thinkpad T60 displays a Fan Failure message but the fan seems to be running fine. Before replacing any hardware, I thought it might be helpful to update the bios to see if that resolves the problem. Unfortunately, I'm unable to access the bios. When I tap the F1 key the computer beeps consistently and I am unable to enter the BIOS Setup Utility. When I stop tapping F1, the Fan Failure message once again appears on the screen and the computer fails to boot to the operating system. Any suggestions for resolving this issue are greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
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