[clue-tech] Noisy computers

[Chris Tubutis]

Relative of mine has an old e-machines PII machine, the CPU fan on it
is a POS. It's screwed down onto a heat sink in a very non-professional
manner. The fan itself doesn't make much noise (bearings) but its
attachment to the heat sink just sucks rocks so badly that the inherent
fan vibration keeps loosening the screws, the result being a loud
growl. Didn't spent much time with it to fix it, that machine was
replaced with an Apple G4 laptop. :)

On another note, had a Seagate disk drive that had noisy bearings after
about a year, the thing'd periodically whistle/whine/shriek something
awful.

As others have said - open it up, turn it on, poke around, figure it
out. Shouldn't be too tough.

ct

P.S. As an aside, I've found that many of those bitty, little fans are
just trash, you're lucky if they last a year or two. Even the ones that
come in "higher-end" Cisco equipment have been known to fail quite readily.


	
		
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