Sounds as if the fan is on it's way out. On some power supplies you can
replace just the fan with a standard case fan. If the power supply doesn't
have screws to let you access it's insides, then the power supply itself
will have to be replaced.

Fran


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy DaPea" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: PCBUILD Digest - 11 Nov 2001 to 12 Nov 2001 (#2001-310)


> I have an old emachines 333i, (with a celeron of course). Just a while
ago,
> the whole machine started having weird sounds when it started up, as if
one
> of the fans was tagging some wire every turn. I've isolated the sound to
the
> power supply. My question is, do I have to replace the power supply, or is
> there some lose wire? Oh, and I checked to see if the fan really was
tagging
> a wire, but it wasn't.
>
> Jimmy DaPea
> [log in to unmask]
>
> -*-=-Look up, and smile at the pretty light...-=-*-
>

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