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Thread ID: 81907	2007-08-10 09:04:00	Why did my comp huff and puff?	Laura (43)	Press F1

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579004	2007-08-10 09:04:00	When I booted up today, nothing happened except a roaring noise ( well, faint roaring, but that the best way I can describe it) which kept coming and going in surges every 10 seconds or so. Even my lack of technical knowledge could identify it as my fan/s?, which I've never had to think about before in this elderly machine. This went on for far longer than even a slow bootup. Nothing at all came up on the monitor. At the same time, the light on the CD/DVD player flashed on & off. As I've hardly ever used it, that took a while te think about... So I opened it & found a disc I'd played 2 days earlier & had forgotten to remove. Took it out.Things immediately back to normal, apparently. But now I'm wondering... Is my machine trying to tell me something's wearing out? For starters, why would having a disk merely sitting in my D drive cause my fans to start working overtime? And if so, why wait 2 days? I used the comp yesterday (when it was there, but not played) with no unusual symptoms. Any ideas? WinXP Home SP2	Laura (43)
579005	2007-08-10 09:12:00	Yah i think your system is trying to tell you something im guessing coz leaving a CD in the drive shouldnt do anything to the computer. Even if you computers first boot device is your drive. How old is you computer?	manvsmachine (11826)
579006	2007-08-10 09:48:00	When I booted up today, nothing happened except a roaring noise At the same time, the light on the CD/DVD player flashed on & off. So I opened it & found a disc I'd played 2 days earlier & had forgotten to remove. The noise was the DVD drive I bet. They do that when trying to work out if it should boot off it.	pctek (84)
579007	2007-08-10 09:51:00	Yah pctek you might be right but if its not the 1st boot device its definitely something else in the computer	manvsmachine (11826)
579008	2007-08-10 09:53:00	Try go to your BIOS setting press delete when it says to when computer is starting then find boot sequence and change it to the floppy drive or something	manvsmachine (11826)
579009	2007-08-11 01:49:00	The noise is the CD/DVD drive revving up and down, as pctek syas. From the thread title I wondered if the computer had "huffed and puffed and blown your house down."	Graham L (2)
579010	2007-08-11 02:12:00	The noise is the CD/DVD drive revving up and down, as pctek syas. From the thread title I wondered if the computer had "huffed and puffed and blown your house down." Mine did this if the disk was 'unreadable' or had a crack or something...	rob_on_guitar (4196)
579011	2007-08-11 02:44:00	Yah i think your system is trying to tell you something im guessing coz leaving a CD in the drive shouldnt do anything to the computer. Even if you computers first boot device is your drive. How old is you computer? Wrong. Your computer is fine. And age doesn't matter. All it was trying to boot-up off your cd drive and as it couldn't find anything to boot from it was having a bit of a fit. In the BIOS you had it set to boot from cd first, it tries to do this, but finds no boot sequence or anything on the disc and is like 'what the **** do it do now?' lol Just disable boot from cd in your BIOS. and disable any other boot as well, apart from hard drive. If you ever need actually boot from disc, just simply change the BIOS back again. that way you don't need to worry about leaving discs in the drive. :p	Bozo (8540)
579012	2007-08-11 03:50:00	That's what I call service! Thanks, all of you. The answer about boot order is obviously the correct one... So it's time to confess now that I've been having an on-off problem with this for a while & it's been gertting worse - just hasn't hasn't involved the D drive before, but increasingly keeps asking for a boot disc floppy - remedied only by turning off. I didn't realise they were linked. In theory, this is the time to get help for a proper fix - now that I have such expert attention. But in practice, I doubt that the brain is up to attempting BIOS changes right now. That's all new to me & will need my undivided attention. Unfortunately, I ( like many other Dunedinites in old houses) got hit with the frozen/burst/pipes/flood syndrome last month. So while I'm still drying out stuff & dealing with tradesmen, my PF1 posts need to stay simple enough to not tax the brain too hard. (No, the comp didn't get wet) I'm going to take the gamble of starting a fresh thread on this later - while hoping the old girl struggles along meanwhile without getting much worse quickly. (And until I raise my morale by lowering some heaps of damp stuff, "old girl" has both electronic & human meanings...) .	Laura (43)
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