Posted: 5/22/2009 10:23:21 PM EDT
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Please close your jaws, open your lips, and blow air between your front teeth. Something in the front of my notebook computer is making an identical noise. Just cleaned the fans out a few days ago, so it shouldn't be that, not to mention I can hear the real fans running right now. Noise appears intermittently, will go for days at a time without hearing it, and then it will pop up and continue even after I've closed the computer.
I've got an associates in computer support, am usually good with technology, and this has me confused. I'm thinking possibly a processor fan. Any thoughts? Thanks. |
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Hard drive is getting ready to REALLY piss you off. Back-up anything you like because it's going away soon.
Think about it. There's only three moving components in a laptop, fan(s), CD/DVD drive and HDD. You've eliminated fans, so check and see if the noise is coming from the DVD drive. If the little light isn't on when the noise happens, then it's not the drive. Open the tray when you hear the noise and if it stops, then it's the DVD drive. If your processor (a little chunk of epoxy with little, itty-bitty doo-dads in it) is making noise, then RUN, RUN as fast as you can because it's getting ready to possess you and eat your eyeballs!!! 
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No paper near the fans, nothing that could make that noise.
I don't think the harddrive is about to crash. It does this about once every five days, it's really random, and more of an annoyance than anything else. I'd also think a harddrive problem would present in more than just funky hissing noises, and I haven't experienced any errors at all recently. It's a Gateway 7324GZ if that helps. |