Try a stethoscope to see if you can pinpoint the noise.
If you don't have one of them, use a piece of hose, holding
one end to an ear, and moving the other end around the case
until the noise is obvious.  This method is very handy for
locating a tapping valve in a car engine also.

Ken Hollingsworth

On 2/24/06, Dan Deucalion <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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