I would bet on the CPU fan as the noise maker. A drop of oil and an immanent
replacement.

Your friend,

Jim

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-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of sue
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 4:45 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] PCBUILD Digest - 23 Mar 2004 to 24 Mar 2004
(#2004-85)

Hi,

Thanks for your response to my problem.

Today when I booted up the sound is gone--but it will be back.    Will do
as you advise this weekend.

Sue


At 06:47 PM 3/25/04 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 03/25/2004 12:04:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > On this first cold boot,  the droning will fluctuate...as if a motor is
not
> > warmed up and fluctuates in decibel level and frequency level.  Kinda
> > sounds like it needs a push.  It's not a whining sound..and there is no
> > banging or clanking.     I've searched the archives and can't find
> > anything relating to the problem.
> >
> > Does this sound like the power supply or the hard drive?    I have
> > everything backed up as of last night.
> >
> > Any ideas on where I should start to fix this problem?
> >
> > Sue Na
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
>
>I had a similar problem that was traced to a fan that was beginning to
fail.
>I guess the bearings in it went south and after the grease in it warmed up
the
>sound "sorta" went away. If you can power up with the case open, try too
see
>which fan is misbehaving. If it isn't one of the fans it might be the
bearings
>in the HDD. In that case, buy a new one quickly. When a single HDD machine
>fails, you will be left with a nice box to look at, but not much else.
>Transfer
>all files, and scrap the old one. HDD's are relatively inexpensive now.
>
>Chris Ryan
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>
>

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