On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:57:20 -0500, Paul Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Dan,
>
>It seems to me like it is the CPU fan.  And it seems quite normal.  My
>son's Asus bare-bones system we built does that.  The CPU fan is
>variable-speed, according to it's temperature.  At boot time the
>temperature is unknown, so the fan controller runs at full speed (the safe
>thing to do).  As soon as the temperature is known, the fan is slowed to a
>reasonable, quiet speed.
>


Paul,

I unplugged the CPU fan and still get the noise.

Dan

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