Is your xbox noisy?

[flot]

Guys -

I bought an xbox from a buddy of mine a couple months ago, and just now got around to hooking it up... (I know, I know, I'm a tard) Anyway - the thing is very noisy.. it has a constant whiny WRRRRRR that is either fan or hard drive or ??? ... is this normal? What exactly is making the noise?

 

[Turkish]

i dunno but mine is kinda noisy as well... it's in my living room so it doesnt bother me much, but if it's in your dorm room or something, that would bother me.

 

[Chaotic42]

It was until it broke 1 day after I bought it.

 

[BornStar]

Mine makes a really high pitched noise when it's seeking but I don't think there's much I can do about that. It competes nicely with the TV when it outputs all white. That's just about unbareable.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Put an 80 Gig hard drive in it, so I can just rip all my X-Box games to it so it accesses them faster...No whirring noise for me...A very, very low hiss due to the fan though.

-Brent

 

[Jombo]

yea it's the seeking noise. not as bad as the one in dreamcast, but it's still loud, esp when playing at night, w/ tv turned low for the sake of others in the house, xbox makes all the ruckus..

 

[2canSAM]

Nope, have an 80gb Seagate in and did the 80mm Fan upgrade and runs super quiet. When I bough it, it had a Western Digital drive in there and that thing was loud, but then again it died a few days later so it may have been a bad drive.

 

[vegetation]

Most likely the hard drive is the culprit.