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Something's vibrating in my computer

Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
edited November 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
And I can't figure out what it is. I've stopped the case fan, and the sound continues. Same with the CPU fan and power fan. I've steadied the motherboard, and touched the hard drives, but felt no vibrations while the sound continued. There's no CD in the drive or floppy. Occassionally, it will stop on it's own, or if I kick it, but always comes back.

Am I missing something?

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Harddrive discs maybe?

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2007
    That's what I'm thinking. Like I said, I don't detect any vibrations when I touch them, but they're the only thing left spinning, unless I have a small centrifuge hiding under my desk.

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  • bbmartinibbmartini Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but...

    Did you examine the chipset/graphics fans

    [edit] just check all the screws for the HDs add on cards etc...

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited November 2007
    My first thought would have been an unbalanced fan, but it seems you stopped all of those. Visually inspect them though just in case, for any broken blades.

    It could also be the PSU fan (unless that's what you meant by case fan)

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  • falsedeffalsedef Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    FyreWulff wrote: »
    It could also be the PSU fan (unless that's what you meant by case fan)
    PSU fans are generally one of the loudest and largest fans in the case. They make even more noise when they start to falter. So ditto. Check your PSU fan.

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  • bbmartinibbmartini Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    he already mentioned power fan

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  • falsedeffalsedef Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    bbmartini wrote: »
    he already mentioned power fan

    Well, I'm not sure how he stopped the PSU fan to check.

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  • SilvoculousSilvoculous Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Worst-case, it's the hard drive platters. Consider a full-scale backup of your precious data.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Press the eject button on your cd drive.

    The computer I'm currently am on now (the work one) seriously rattles whenever the tray is in even when there is no disc in it, I now keep the tray permantly ejected.

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  • eternalbleternalbl Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Its probably your HDD or optical drives. Can you start the computer with only 1 drive connected at a time to check it out? If it turns out to be your HDD, you could suspend them with elastic cord to dampen vibrations being trasferred to your case. If its the CD drive there are programs you can use to set things like spindown time and read/write speeds. All I can think of off hand is plextools and I don't even know if that works with non plextor drives. But its a free program to start with. Also, using something to weight load the case panels will help reduce the transfer of vibration. Personally I used roofers tape. I really don't know if it helped all that much, but if you have an aluminum rather than steel case, it'll probably help at least a bit.

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  • SilvoculousSilvoculous Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    Blaket wrote: »
    The computer I'm currently am on now (the work one) seriously rattles whenever the tray is in even when there is no disc in it, I now keep the tray permantly ejected.

    Ew.

    Just slap in a new optical drive, they're so common now that my room is full of them.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited November 2007
    It's at work.

    It's not mine.

    I just press the eject button once a day when it boots up.

    Do you see the lack of effort needed here on my part?

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