On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:04:35 -0600, Dean Kukral <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Dan, you probably do not have a "problem" at all.  You most likely
>have a variable speed cooling fan on your cpu.  When the cpu is
>heavily used, the fan speeds up and may become quite noisy.  Now, if
>the noise seems inappropriate ( buzz?), so as to indicate bad fan
>bearings, then you might have a fan problem.
>
>I can tell you that my fan is quite loud at boot time.
>
>Dean Kukral, [log in to unmask]
>
>


Dean - Thanks for the tip but I disabled the cpu fan and still got the noise.  I have disabled every movable part that I can think of except for the cpu.  That's why I suspect that that's the source of the noise altho it doesn't seem logical to me.

Dan

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