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[Thief^]

That is amazingly friendly for a laptop. Often "non user serviceable parts" are on the bottom of the motherboard without an access panel, and the entire laptop has to be disassembled (from the top)!

[wierd]

Ok, this was a pain in the butt.. but here is what I have found.

This is an "out of stock" fan for the w370ss.

www.amazon.ca/CPU-fan-for-Clevo-W370SS/dp/B00NAM0ILQ

If you zoom in on the picture and read the asset tag on the fan, it says:

6-31-W370S-101

I have found the exact same fan (same asset tag ID) on amazon here:

www.amazon.com/LRHKF-Cooling-W350ETQ-AB7905HX-DE3-6-31-W370S-101/dp/B015366PI6/ref=pd_sim_sbs_147_7?ie=UTF8&dpID=51NS0Kk6fCL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0NHC9JCV61WGBQP3KV39

This suggests that the same fan is used in multiple models, and gives some pointers on alternate PNs to look up.

Armed with such knowledge, go forth and price shop on newegg and pals.

[Sonlirain]

bah. Upgraded my Ram. Or to be more exact i ordered faster ram (my current one is 1333 single channel).
But now it turns out my Motherboard officially supports upto 1333 so the extra ram speed won't really come into use anyway...

[wierd]

if you bought dual sticks, dont mock what dual channel access brings to the table.

[Sonlirain]

Why yes it is dual sticks. And they even have led lights to illuminate the inside of my case for the gnomoria gnomes living in my FX-6300 that carry the data packets around.
And i bought good ram.
How good?
So good it says so on the sticker.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

See? Must be good with a brand like that.
(No seriously they are sold only in poland from the looks of it but the reviews are pretty positive so i'm not particularly afraid of it exploding. I'm just angry at myself because i bought high speed ram for a computer that won't really make any good use of it. Still dual acces is dual acces.)

[Thief^]

Some motherboards don't officially support higher speed ram but can be overclocked to it with no stability issues (after all, the ram does support that speed). You could always try that. (use memtest86 to test stability)

Also loving the brand name. I'm glad it's actually good stuff, unlike a lot of stuff with similar names...

[miauw62]

Update: support from the company I bought the fan from is offering to send me a new one for free

Thanks for all the help <3

[wierd]

I didnt see your post before you edited- Did the fan you ordered (Presumably defective?) fit?

[miauw62]

Whoops, I meant company I bought the laptop from, not fan.
So yeah, I've still got warranty and they're apparently going to send me a free fan to replace the defective one.
I could send it in but I'm fairly confident I can do this myself and sending it in would probably mean I wouldn't get it back until after Christmas.

[wierd]

And you mght not get back the same laptop....

(a common practice with RMAs is to send the customer an "off the shelf" refurbished unit, then send the defective one to be factory refurbed, and added to the shelf to send to other customers. This is including desktop PCs and laptops.)

[Sonlirain]

Yeah many years ago i had a problem with my PC. Can't remember the specs but the CPU was an athlon 3000+
Mobo fell apart and the local Mr. Fixit Mc.Longnose fixed it by replacing the motherboard. However strangely the CPU magically transformed into an Athlon 2800+.

So i suggest taking a good look at your hardware every time someone repairs it for you because ignorance can be abused.

[wierd]

That might not have been purposeful-- Often times, laptop CPUs are BGA, not PGA.  That means they are physically soldered to the motherboard. He replaced your motherboard, which had a CPU on it-- with a new motherboard, with a different CPU on it. 

Some laptops, typically those with intel processors, have an actual CPU socket on them. This was especially true in the pentium 4 era. This is however, sadly, not the rule, and rather the exception.

Ball Grid Array (BGA) chips are the norm.

[Sonlirain]

I still have that PC. Nope the CPU is detachable (i'm not going to unscrew it all the way because i don't want to replace the thermal paste in case it has grease instead of a pad).

[Thief^]

Substitutions like that definitely happen.

It's an easy accident with laptop motherboards with a soldered CPU. If the laptop model number has been refreshed with newer specs, there can easily be a dozen or more variant motherboards. You even occasionally have it with mobile phone repairs.

But with a socketed chip it's nothing but theft. Especially if the CPU is particularly top-end / valuable.

[Sonlirain]

Well i did inquire him after the fact. he said the CPU didn't work with the "new" motherbloard. naturally he didn't give me the CPU back.
I'm not salty about all that however as the PC was pretty much junk tier when that happened.

Still it was a sudden unexplained swap he apparently hoped i wouldn't notice.