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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: soundifound on November 13, 2001, 11:44:59 AM

Title: Computer grinding noise
Post by: soundifound on November 13, 2001, 11:44:59 AM

Whenever my computer boots up there is this unpleasent grinding noise.  Anyone know whats wrong with it.  Smacking it doesn\'t work :D

Title: Computer grinding noise
Post by: luckee on November 13, 2001, 11:48:05 AM

Have you tried the 2-story method?

Drop it out of a 2-story window...I guarenteed to stop all grinding!:D

Title: Computer grinding noise
Post by: Toxical on November 13, 2001, 11:49:01 AM

Could be the fan inside the power supply maybe, how old is your PC?

Title: Computer grinding noise
Post by: mm on November 13, 2001, 11:56:39 AM

it is yer A:\\ drive looking for a boot disk

Title: Computer grinding noise
Post by: kirath on November 13, 2001, 12:13:14 PM

Sounds like it could be anything with a motor booting up..

Heat sync fan, hard drive, CD-rom, disk drive.  If it is grinding on start up then it may be failing.

Title: Computer grinding noise
Post by: fishpie on November 13, 2001, 05:14:17 PM

maby u have a very low amount of memory like say 32 mb and its ur hard drive swapping data, my trusty emachines used to do that until i upgraded the ram from 32 to 160 mb.

Title: Computer grinding noise
Post by: THX on November 13, 2001, 05:17:59 PM

The same happened to me.  I opened my comp up and then turned it on to find out it was a CPU heat sink fan.  I replaced and it sounds fine.

2nd choice is most likely your PS fan as someone else mentioned.

Title: Computer grinding noise
Post by: SwifDi on November 13, 2001, 06:34:16 PM

Maybe it\'s the dumptruck outside your window genious. ;)