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Uh oh! Whining sound?

AgaBoogaBoo

AgaBoogaBoo

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I'm hearing a whining sound that seems to be coming from my computer, I have a WD 120GB HD with the 8mb cache.

My DVD drive isn't spinning so I don't think it's that. I turned my speakers off and nothing else in my room besides the lights are on now or moving.

It could be from a fan in the case or something too. Also, the sound just went away 😛
 
Gently push in the hub of each fan to slow it a tad and see if the whining stops. If it does, you've found the problematic hardware. If it doesnt, disconnect your hard drive and boot into your BIOS, wait a bit, see if the whining continues. If it doesn't, it's your HDD :thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: MrK6
Gently push in the hub of each fan to slow it a tad and see if the whining stops. If it does, you've found the problematic hardware. If it doesnt, disconnect your hard drive and boot into your BIOS, wait a bit, see if the whining continues. If it doesn't, it's your HDD :thumbsup:
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What does booting into the BIOS do? Keep optical drives from spinning?
 
There is a good chance it is just a fan. The smaller fans seem to go pretty quick. In the height of my DC days, I was running 8 A7V133's (among other boxen). Each chipset fan took turns dying on me. They would whine, and or scream from one to three months before quitting altogether.

I resolved the issue by replacing the chipset fan with a larger heatsink only solution (which was also much quieter). That was a pain because I had to remove every board from the case (no removable MB trays) to pop the fan off from the back of the MB.
 
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Originally posted by: MrK6
Gently push in the hub of each fan to slow it a tad and see if the whining stops. If it does, you've found the problematic hardware. If it doesnt, disconnect your hard drive and boot into your BIOS, wait a bit, see if the whining continues. If it doesn't, it's your HDD :thumbsup:
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What does booting into the BIOS do? Keep optical drives from spinning?
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AFAIK the easiest way tp prevent optical drives from spinning is not to load any media. 😛

Otherwise follow MrK6 advise
 
I was just trying to think of a way to run your PC and fans for awhile w/o having the HDD connected... is there a better way?
 
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