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Hi, I would like to ask something. My laptop cooling fan make a clicking sound when starting. It is normal or not? Thank you in advance your answer.
@siskovity I found a answer on a separate forum that might help you. Hope nothing major is wrong, good luck! https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/…
Usually clicking means a failing magnetic (mechanical) hard drive… but it looks like your laptop is fairly new and it comes standard with a solid state drive (SSD) that wouldn’t make any noise. Does the clicking only happen when it’s booting up? If so, it could be from the fan turning on and off rapidly until the power management firmware in the BIOS fully loads and takes control of the fan. This wouldn’t be terribly uncommon (for the fan to pulse on and off at boot time, but it shouldn’t have an audible click.) I don’t know if that’s normal for your laptop… I’d say that it is not. Clicking sounds could indicate wear on the fan’s ball bearings… which could be indicative of premature failure. But if you only hear it during early boot-up stage, it’s probably something else. If you have warranty, I’d take it in; otherwise I’d say it’s probably fine.
When I had this problem, it was only a matter of replacing the fan, which in a lot of laptops you can do on your own. You can get a new fan for $10.
