On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:52:19 -0800, Thomas Mayer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Dan > >Since you do not have any other problems except the 90 second or so buzz, >your situation is different than Walter's. In your case, I would suspect >that the CD player is trying to see if a CD is present from which to boot. >Go into your BIOS at the beginning of the boot process and see what the boot >order of your drives is. Unless you intend upon occasionally booting from a >CD, eliminate it from the boot order or place it last in the boot order. > >I hope this helps. > >Tom Mayer > Tom - I thought of that too so I unplugged the power to the CD and all other things I could think of...hard drives, fans, cpu fan. The noise still occurs. I'm left to think it's the cpu, no matter how illogical it seems. I read someplace that some Linux users had a similar problem that was caused by their power option settings, but I have all mine disabled. Keep throwing ideas at me. Hopefully there is something I haven't thought of. Dan The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com