Noise can come from any "moving part".
Any type of fan -- in the power supply, on the CPU chip, in the case,
on the video card, on the NorthBridge chipset, etc...

I would try to see if you can open "the computer" and see if you
can localize the noise more specifically.

As always, if you have a problem that you think "might be" the hard drive,
I would be very careful to back up or store outside the computer
(or at least on a different physical hard drive) any data I could
NOT afford to use... When a hard drive fails, they sometimes do so
in a way that everything is lost on all their partitions, etc...

                                            Rick Glazier

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Kaplan"

> My old hard drive was a few years old,and making noise on bootup. My new(2 months) Seagate 160GB drive at first was nice and
> quiet, but now it also is making too much noise itself. My guess is that it's hard drive noise, but can this noise be from another
> source? Thanks very much..........Ron Kaplan



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