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Hello, HP! My 8 year-old laptop's cooling fan started to make a rattling noise whenever I had to move it or change its position about a year ago. It will go away when I shake the laptop (a ProBook 4530s), move it in a different position, hit it slightly with my hand, where the fan is, or turn it off and then on again/put it to sleep and resume afterwards. However, during these last days, the amount of rattling starting whenever I turn on the computer intensified, and there would be no fix for it anymore; the above-mentioned workarounds will no longer have any effect, so the best thing I can do now is replacing the fan.

 

Obviously, I cannot be discontented with this! I'm a heavy/power user and a CPU cooler putting up with all of this for 8 years sounds fantastic! It's an amazing machine that still works great, but nothing will last forever, so the fan had to get worn out and "tired". [The only thing I can be dissatisfied about is the fact that there's a tiny thing separating the fan from being removed directly from the backside - a piece of housing plastic -, which means I have to disassemble the whole thing to reach and remove it... from the front side, along with the motherboard (according to the service manual's procedures). It has a great design, but not very practical from this standpoint and in terms of serviceability! (It's great only in terms of upgradeability, because you barely need to remove any screws to upgrade the RAM or the permanent storage module. A fan, given its perishable nature, should be treated like a "consumable" and made easy to replace, just like a battery, so that would be a design suggestion.]

 

So, my question is... the original brand of this fan (what I found inside my notebook) is Delta; It's a KSB0505HB and the part number/SPS is 646285-001... are SUNON and FORCECON original brands, contracted officially by HP? I need to change the fan urgently, but I can (barely) find (any) Delta fans(, and) only outside my country (China especially), which will take forever to ship (because of the Coronavirus outbreak and whatnot). The only fan I found, available and ready for delivery in my country, is a Forcecon. Sunon and Forcecon fans look identical to the Delta fan. The Forcecon even has a code that's similar to the one on the Delta imprinted on its label - 6033B0024002. (The Delta has "1" instead of "2", at the end.)

 

I also have to mention that the only technical parameter that differs from Delta's fan, seemingly (according to the label), is the current - Forcecon requires 0.5 amps, while the Delta wants 0.4. (Would an amperage of 0,5 be damaging to the motherboard?)

 

Again... what do you know about these brands? Can those be considered "original"/genuine cooling fans? I don't know about these industries and how the same fan gets to be produced by more brands (The info gathered from the internet is inconsistent and obscure.), so I only ask this to know if I should trust Forcecon and put one in my laptop. I found Sunon fans inside other laptops, from other brands (such as Lenovo), but I know nothing about Forcecon. I even found an image with a Forcecon that had a label with the same SPS number on it online(, which would indicate an official link to HP). I'm looking forward to your answers; thank you very much!

 

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