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I have a 1 month old Lenovo Ideapad y410p and the fan makes a weird clicking noise. It happens sometimes when I tilt my laptop but not always, sometimes when I turn on my laptop, and usually when I'm running CPU intensive programs. I tried opening the laptop and looking at the fan but I couldn't get the cover of the fan off because one of the screws wouldn't come out.

This is the sound it makes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIutZZoZb_8 (the noise that starts 4 seconds in is my AC not my computer)

It sometimes gets louder when I tilt the laptop. And when I'm playing video games it usually goes on the whole time.

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    Send it back! It's only 1 month old, let them fix instead of your trying to do something which could affect your warranty
    – Dave
    Jul 30, 2014 at 8:02

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TL;DR;

Send it back.

Explanation

This is probably a manufacturing fault. A lot of PC parts are injection molded and as such, they have a small chance of having excess material.

A good example of this would be on the bottom of plastic bottles, there is a small "pip".

The chances are, this is a small piece of plastic, which when the laptop is tilted just catches on the fan.

I cannot stress enough: Do not attempt to fix it yourself, it could cause you to invalidate your warranty.

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