AN515-57-592N, Acer Nitro 5 CPU/left fan making loud whirring noise when I press too hard

inserrrt · August 2024

I've had this problem a few times, it's noisy not loud, and it both sounds and feels like its just vibrating, usually I would just dust it from the outside since I didn't want to open it up, which worked until now. From what I recall, this isn't a frequent issue, and only has happened to me maybe 3 or 4 other times. Yesterday it happened again, so I did what I usually do, and it worked, but after about 15 minutes it started making the noise again, and I thought that the noise only appears after about 15-25 minutes of using it since no matter what I did it didn't go away, I even opened up the back cover to clean it more thoroughly. But it didn't make sense that it would happen after a specified amount of time, so upon investigating further, I discovered any time I make some sort of impact, whether pressing a button on the keyboard too hard, or maybe even directly hitting (which I don't do but am using as an example) anywhere near the left side of the frame, it starts the whole vibrating/whirring noise, which actually sometimes disappears if I do the same thing again, the same way it would appear in the first place. Turning it off and back on makes it disappear until I've done the previously listed things. The model of the laptop is Acer Nitro 5 AN515-57-592N, and I've had it for almost two years, and this is the first problem I have with it. I personally of course, am not an expert, but from what it seems like to me, something is probably worn out over the year and gotten loose, and anytime I press a button it falls out of place, and turning it off makes it shift back into place somehow.

[Edited the thread to add model name to the title]