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| Thread ID: 60301 | 2005-07-28 02:44:00 | Hard Drive noisey! Cause for concern? | clau_dos (8186) | Press F1 |
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| 376325 | 2005-07-28 04:19:00 | Take the side off your case and find where the noise is coming from and see if you need to dust out your case and fans as well. See if you need to tidy up your cables while your at it. You could put the harddrive into a harddrive encloser. You could get quiter fans. You could get a fan controller for your fans to quiten them down. :2cents: |
memphis (2869) | ||
| 376326 | 2005-07-28 04:22:00 | Sounds as though the CPU fan is stuffed. Take the side off your PC, see if the sound is coming from the CPU fan. If so replace it. If it is the harddrive then backup everything you need NOW and buy a new one ASAP. I hope this is not true! I did not install this myself and I've only upgraded from a Pentium III within the last 8 months. Surely, my CPU should last longer than this? I did take the side off the PC Case to identify where the sound is coming from. It is a bit difficult to tell exactly for sure, as I cannot say that you should try putting a (pen or other object) hoping that it will stop one of the fan(s) from spinning. I don't know if this is a good idea, but was attempted to do so at one point! I have tried putting my ear as close to the noisey culprit, but my ears started to get warm. Eventually, I was abit worried that the CPU was about to fail, but checked the BIOS settings to view the current CPU temp which was below 60°C at the default settings. To my understanding, that if my CPU was stuffed, I'm sure the BIOS program would of alerted me so if the CPU was getting too hot or if there were any possible problems with the CPU fan! Which has been enabled to alert me. I am using the safe/default system settings in BIOS Any other possible suggestions? |
clau_dos (8186) | ||
| 376327 | 2005-07-28 04:22:00 | OK . . computer geography class 1-A The tower is the box in which all the componenet of the 'puter live with exception of the keyboard, monitor (the tv thing-y) and a mouse (made of plastic and may or may not have a little ball under it that rolls on the desk), any or all peripherals like printers and DSL modems etc . Now, inside the tower are things like the PSU to make the right kind of electricity for the various componenets inside or outside the tower, and the fan(s) to cool it, the motherboard which has upon it the Central Processor, the Chipset and maybe an onboard sound card and video card too . There may be other devices on the Motherboard, hereafter called MOM by me, and these devices may also have fans to cool them too . Now the hard drives are usually lower mounted than the floppy/cd-roms or dvd-roms . The last three are available from the outside via drawers or slots into which discs or floppies can be inserted . The hard drives are usually placed in the front, lower case area, and may have fans which blow over them, but I have not seen any with fans installed upon them for many years, as they are better made nowadays . The internal harddrives are not available for the insertion or removal of their disks, as they are sealed . There are exceptions to the statements above in the form of external dvd or cd-rom drives, usb ram devices or hubs, etc . This is another subject to explore later . Please try to find the offending particular, and home in on the sound a little better . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 376328 | 2005-07-28 04:23:00 | <I still want a spell-checker here!> | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 376329 | 2005-07-28 04:32:00 | Take the side off your case and find where the noise is coming from and see if you need to dust out your case and fans as well. Ok, I had already done that. I am quite a tidy person. (very dust free, I must add!) See if you need to tidy up your cables while your at it. I'm not sure if this also applies, but I'm using the 'Round Cables' instead of the traditional flat universal IDE cables. You could put the harddrive into a harddrive encloser. You could get quiter fans. If I get quiter fans, how can I do this, if the actual problem is from the motherboard? Can you really remove a fan from the motherboard and maybe replace it with a heat sink instead? You could get a fan controller for your fans to quiten them down. Where would I get one and would this be easy to install? :2cents: *Take the side off your case and find where the noise is coming from and see if you need to dust out your case and fans as well. Ok, I had already done that. I am quite a tidy person. (very dust free, I must add!) *See if you need to tidy up your cables while your at it. I'm not sure if this also applies, but I'm using the 'Round Cables' instead of the traditional flat universal IDE cables. *You could put the harddrive into a harddrive encloser. hmm...not sure *You could get quiter fans. If I get quiter fans, how can I do this, if the actual problem is from the motherboard? Can you really remove a fan from the motherboard and maybe replace it with a heat sink instead? *You could get a fan controller for your fans to quiten them down. Where would I get one and would this be easy to install? |
clau_dos (8186) | ||
| 376330 | 2005-07-28 04:37:00 | OK . . computer geography class 1-A The tower is the box in which all the componenet of the 'puter live with exception of the keyboard, monitor (the tv thing-y) and a mouse (made of plastic and may or may not have a little ball under it that rolls on the desk), any or all peripherals like printers and DSL modems etc . Now, inside the tower are things like the PSU to make the right kind of electricity for the various componenets inside or outside the tower, and the fan(s) to cool it, the motherboard which has upon it the Central Processor, the Chipset and maybe an onboard sound card and video card too . There may be other devices on the Motherboard, hereafter called MOM by me, and these devices may also have fans to cool them too . Now the hard drives are usually lower mounted than the floppy/cd-roms or dvd-roms . The last three are available from the outside via drawers or slots into which discs or floppies can be inserted . The hard drives are usually placed in the front, lower case area, and may have fans which blow over them, but I have not seen any with fans installed upon them for many years, as they are better made nowadays . The internal harddrives are not available for the insertion or removal of their disks, as they are sealed . There are exceptions to the statements above in the form of external dvd or cd-rom drives, usb ram devices or hubs, etc . This is another subject to explore later . Please try to find the offending particular, and home in on the sound a little better . I do not have any hard disks that have any fans . |
clau_dos (8186) | ||
| 376331 | 2005-07-28 04:39:00 | I hope this is not true! I did not install this myself and I've only upgraded from a Pentium III within the last 8 months. Surely, my CPU should last longer than this? Any other possible suggestions? Your CPU should be fine, if the computer is working OK, but if the cooling fan is on the way out, then it could be killed off anytime soon, If you didn't install it yourself, was there some type of warranty on the work, contact the person who did the work and query them about the the noise and query if it will be fixed for free, (or at least checked), it's always worth a try. get it checked a replacement cooling fan is about $20 I thing as opposed to over $100 for a new CPU and Fan (and motherboard if it really packs a sad) Cheers |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 376332 | 2005-07-28 04:39:00 | Harddrive images.google.co.nz Computer images.google.co.nz Ignore the monitors in the pics, Take them away and you still have a computer. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 376333 | 2005-07-28 04:54:00 | Your CPU should be fine, if the computer is working OK, but if the cooling fan is on the way out, then it could be killed off anytime soon, If you didn't install it yourself, was there some type of warranty on the work, contact the person who did the work and query them about the the noise and query if it will be fixed for free, (or at least checked), it's always worth a try . get it checked a replacement cooling fan is about $20 I thing as opposed to over $100 for a new CPU and Fan (and motherboard if it really packs a sad) Cheers Hi Nigel, I did get ring up the place about this situation somewhat similar to the one I am experiencing now after a week when they had installed it from my upgrade . I did complain about the noise factor but, events about my situation ended up going to the Main office up in Auckland and back to where I reside now . The warranty got a bit confusing, as that if there were any issues with the motherboard or anything else, then they would have to take this issue to the manufacturer and wait for several weeks or months for a result . Which i couldn't do at the time as I needed for work . They said that It is often noisey and something I should get used to . Finally, I do have a 12 month warrantry on it, but my feelings are that they may suggest that I would have to take this isuue with the manufacturer instead . |
clau_dos (8186) | ||
| 376334 | 2005-07-28 04:55:00 | Harddrive images.google.co.nz Computer images.google.co.nz Ignore the monitors in the pics, Take them away and you still have a computer. Nice pictures |
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