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  1. 23rd Nov 2009, 6:27 PM #1
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    Default 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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    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 ?
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  3. 23rd Nov 2009, 7:55 PM #3
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    Pour water over it and see what happens.
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    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.
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Si Hunt View Post
    Yes disconnect it
    I should have mentioned that - every so often someone tries to do this without disconnecting from the mains!

    You wouldn't believe the filth which builds up inside.
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Andrew Curnow View Post
    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.
    Tim would have a field day with material like that
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    oh my!

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    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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