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23rd Nov 2009, 6:27 PM #1
I don't like the sound of that...
This isn't a techological so much as a mechanical issue, I think... Our PC has just today started making a sort of grinding, buzzing noise, not unlike when you first put a CD in and it chunters away reading it - but much louder, and constant. Is it likely to be the fan, and if so what can we do about it? Or could it be something else?
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23rd Nov 2009, 6:49 PM #2
Fan or hard drive would be my guess - last time it happened to me it was fan, and I had a new power unit fitted at a repair shop. Wasn't too bad or expensive.
Of course Hard Drive is much more worrying - can you back it up ?Bazinga !
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23rd Nov 2009, 7:55 PM #3Pip Madeley Guest
Pour water over it and see what happens.
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23rd Nov 2009, 8:18 PM #4
If you're competent, one thing I could suggest to you - just open the cover, and manually inspect the fan - it's probably clogged up like mad.
If you have some cotton buds, you should be able to give it a good clean up. I have to do this every few months with my desktop. Worth doing that to see if it's any better.Remember, just because Davros is dead doesn't mean the Dalek menace has been contained ......
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23rd Nov 2009, 8:38 PM #5
Yes disconnect it and open up the back, then give it a good dust. If that fails, maybe time to upgrade and get a new base unit.
Si. :mobile
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23rd Nov 2009, 8:41 PM #6
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23rd Nov 2009, 9:44 PM #7
Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I did get down on my hands & knees and give it a damn good blow earlier on, and that seems to have calmed it down for now. I'll take the cover off and clean it properly later on.
Oh and Pip... If I did that it would be like McCoy breaking the second law of thermodynamics. Smoke and over-exaggerated coughing!
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23rd Nov 2009, 10:21 PM #8
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23rd Nov 2009, 10:21 PM #9
oh my!
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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24th Nov 2009, 12:06 AM #10
I like to think that any potential double entendre causes a giant letter T to be flashed into the night sky, waiting for Tim to emerge from the SmutCave...
Where IS Tim?
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