Many laptops come with diagnostic software that will pinpoint the
problem for you. Noise such as you describe is likely the HD or a fan.
Make a backup quickly.


Darrell Dunn wrote:
> After a while my laptop freezes up. It makes a rhymatic noise and after a while everything starts to freeze up. I have to manually restart and then the whole thing starts again. Eventually if I do not restart the computer goes to the blue screen of death. I have reloaded windows xp several times. Everything works well for a while. But then I hear that same rhythm  again and whoops there it is!!
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