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XPS 15 9530 noise from inside case
I hear a noise that sounds like an hard drive thrashing on occasion. I installed a 250 gig solid state drive in it back in 2018 instead of the original 1TB 5400 rpm SATA Hard Drive which went bad.
The other drive is the 32GB mSATA Solid State Drive. Not even sure what that drive does ?
How can a solid state drive sound like the SATA drive thrashing ?. I know what one sounds like when going bad but the SATA has been removed like I mentioned.
If there are no hard drives, only SSDs, then what you describe could be a fan going bad. As that is an eight- or nine-year-old laptop, the fan could be dirty, causing it to work harder. A fan bearing could be slightly worn, causing noise.
If it were my laptop, I would open it up to check the fan and do a cleaning. You can find step-by-step disassembly/assembly instructions in the Dell manual.
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Posted October 4th, 2022 01:00
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