Thread: Argh! Loud noise coming from my poor PC!
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Old 15-03-2005, 07:01   #2
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Re: Argh! Loud noise coming from my poor PC!
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Originally Posted by xcdtowg
This is definately not a good thing to be dealing with at 6:30 in the morning!
I turned my PC on this moring to get frighterned by this crazy ratchet like noise coming from inside my PC and its quite loud!

So I paniced and tried to hit all the buttons to turn it off, but i was still asleep really and it loaded fine, no errors at all, except for this noise!

So i shut it down and opened the case and there was nothing a miss. No fans fallen off and trying to chew up wires! (its happened to me before with a different case!), nothing out of the ordinary.

I turned it on and had a listen to the fans and it doesnt seem to be coming from them, its comign from my main board or processor fan.

At first i thought it might be because it was cold of the ball bearings n the fans, something simple but i dont think so!

Any ideas what i can do to test this? I'm right in the middle of all my c/w and stuff, i dont think i could concentrate with that noise in the background!

I have to go to college now and sort this out when i get back, but any ideas would be very gratly appreciated!!!!
That sound would probably be a wire on a fan but you said you have checked that. I'd disconnect the casing fans one at a time (not the cpu cooler ) and see if it stops. Remember to check all fans possible (some graphics cards have them too) and if possible run the PC without it's case siding for a while to see if you can track the noise down.
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