-Vormav-
01-04-2005, 12:25 PM
Hey. I've been getting...strange noises out of my PC lately. Usually, I'm able to ignore these pretty easily, so long as my computer continues to run normally. But right now, I can't really afford to replace anything in my PC. Maybe a case fan or heatsink, or something along those lines. But having to buy a new PSU/CPU or whatever else would go a bit beyond my current pathetically-low budget. So I just want to see if there's anything that I can prevent from getting any worse, if anything is... breaking. http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/sad.gif
First off, specs:
3ghz P4
Asus P4P800 mobo, 512mb ram
Antec 380W PSu
120gb 7200rpm WD HDD
2x120mm fans
256mb 9800pro
sound#1:
This is actually a sound that just showed up a few months ago, which I started hearing after moving my desktop to my new room. For the first year that I had this system, I never got this sound. Anyway, it's the kind of sound you'd expect to hear if you had a pin sticking up against the spinning disc of the HDD (although fairly quiet). And for that matter, it sounds like it's coming from the HDD, though I can't tell for sure. However, to support the idea of it coming from the HDD, I only here the sound at times when the harddrive is getting heavy read access. This could be something like searching through thousands of files; browsing through my music collection in Windows Media Player seems to bring out the sound every time.
Normally, my first thoughts would be that I have a drive all set to crap out on me. But like I said before, everything is running just fine, and has been running fine for the 4-5 months since I started hearing this. I've run checks on the hard drive to scan for bad sectors, and have come up with nothing. Any kind of tests I should run (other than skandisk) to see if anything is failing? Or maybe this is a normal sound that I just hadn't noticed before? I haven't known HHDs to make that sort of sound normally...But then I haven't known many people that put as much crap on their HDD as I do. :p
sound#2:
Now this is the one that's really bothering me, that just started occurring today. The best way that I guess I can describe the sound would be to say that it just sounds like a fan spinning way faster than it should be. Seems to get slightly louder the longer I leave the computer on. Would fans ever make a sound like that if they were beginning to fail? I thought that maybe my processor was starting to get warmer than usual, and that maybe a fan was speeding up to fight back the heat. So after running a couple programs in WinXp briefly, I reset and checked the temp on my processor: 43C. That's pretty normal (for being a little bit past idle), right? Do heatsink fans and the fans in PSUs even monitor temperatures, or do they generally run at a set rate? I know my rear 120mm fan should have a set rate...
Bleh, maybe I'm just paranoid...http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/suspicious.gif
First off, specs:
3ghz P4
Asus P4P800 mobo, 512mb ram
Antec 380W PSu
120gb 7200rpm WD HDD
2x120mm fans
256mb 9800pro
sound#1:
This is actually a sound that just showed up a few months ago, which I started hearing after moving my desktop to my new room. For the first year that I had this system, I never got this sound. Anyway, it's the kind of sound you'd expect to hear if you had a pin sticking up against the spinning disc of the HDD (although fairly quiet). And for that matter, it sounds like it's coming from the HDD, though I can't tell for sure. However, to support the idea of it coming from the HDD, I only here the sound at times when the harddrive is getting heavy read access. This could be something like searching through thousands of files; browsing through my music collection in Windows Media Player seems to bring out the sound every time.
Normally, my first thoughts would be that I have a drive all set to crap out on me. But like I said before, everything is running just fine, and has been running fine for the 4-5 months since I started hearing this. I've run checks on the hard drive to scan for bad sectors, and have come up with nothing. Any kind of tests I should run (other than skandisk) to see if anything is failing? Or maybe this is a normal sound that I just hadn't noticed before? I haven't known HHDs to make that sort of sound normally...But then I haven't known many people that put as much crap on their HDD as I do. :p
sound#2:
Now this is the one that's really bothering me, that just started occurring today. The best way that I guess I can describe the sound would be to say that it just sounds like a fan spinning way faster than it should be. Seems to get slightly louder the longer I leave the computer on. Would fans ever make a sound like that if they were beginning to fail? I thought that maybe my processor was starting to get warmer than usual, and that maybe a fan was speeding up to fight back the heat. So after running a couple programs in WinXp briefly, I reset and checked the temp on my processor: 43C. That's pretty normal (for being a little bit past idle), right? Do heatsink fans and the fans in PSUs even monitor temperatures, or do they generally run at a set rate? I know my rear 120mm fan should have a set rate...
Bleh, maybe I'm just paranoid...http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/suspicious.gif