2019 Acer Helios 300 (1660ti) GPU fan not spinning but making a drill noise.
Hello, I bought a Helios 300 on Ebay (brand new) in may of 2020. The laptop has had incredible performance with few problems. Then in December of 2020, i left my pc on all night, and realizing this, I turned it off, but by holding the power button. When I turned it back on later, this drill noise randomly started, I later found out it was the gpu fan with predator sense. It said the GPU fan had 0 rpm. at first the noise was very loud for a fan, but then it started getting louder and louder and more high pitched until I got frightened and held the power button to turn it off. I opened the laptop up to see what the problem was. I cleaned the fans and ran the laptop with the back off. The gpu fan didn't spin at all. (also one of the times i turned it on when the noise was happening, the noise stopped, but then there was this burnt rubber smell coming from it.) After this I had to take it to staples to get it fixed. It worked fine after that. But a few weeks later it had the same problem again. I somehow fixed it by windows repair tool or something like that when it popped up on my screen that something was damaged. The noise stopped for a month or so. Then, today, I turned it on and the noise was there again. I tried to fix it the same way as before but it didn't work. Now we're here. Is there any way I can fix this on my own? Since staples didn't let me know how they fixed it, I can't do it on my own. Thank you
