Two months ago my Macbook’s fan started making funny noises when computer’s temperature was above 60 deg, I consulted to a friend of mine who is a Mac Genius in Greece and he recommended me replacing the fan to a new one, unpleasently as it is, things haven’t been in the best of it’s shapes for me lately, so I passed on the recommendation.
Two days ago my computer automatically turned-off twice to my complete surprise; So after a thrid start I ran smcFanController.app only to find that my fan colapsed!, it wasn’t spinning at all!, Zero RPMS!; Luckily I have all the important data backed up via rsync to a Linux server in my office.
Restarted, ran Apple Hardware Test and realized that my computer had the error code: “4M0T/1/40000002: Exhaust”, which almost has no reference on Internet except that which says “buy another Mac” !.
The next day reading forums I discovered ifixit.com and this post in particular, thanks Nietzsche that website exists, immediately I started trying to dissasembly my mac with no luck, my tools wasn’t the right ones!. Today I did.
Before cleaning
After cleaning
The problem, a dusty fan
The tools
Current laptop status: Working like a charm ;)
