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Noisy fan!
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maximus0983 wrote: »When your AV is running it is one of most power hungry programs on you PC. Suggest some RAM (depending on your spec) to ease the load of a daily virus scan.
What AV do you have?
I use AVG 7.5 and already have 2GB of RAM installed
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If you want to narrow down which fan is causing the noise then unplug them from their power supply on the mainboard one at a time(for the ones where you can see their power cables) and turn on your PC.
If the noise has gone then that unpowered fan is the culprit. Of course with unpowered fans, components could be damaged but I'm sure that everything will be ok as long as you power down the computer very quickly.0 -
I had the same noise problem and cleaned/vacuumed out and it helped significantly. But when I bought a can of 'power air cleaner' from Asda and blasted the dust out, it was very messy, but made a huge difference with the noise.A retired senior partner, in own agency, with 40 years experience in property sales & new build. In latter part of career specialising in commercial - mostly business sales.0
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If you want to narrow down which fan is causing the noise then unplug them from their power supply on the mainboard one at a time(for the ones where you can see their power cables) and turn on your PC.
If the noise has gone then that unpowered fan is the culprit. Of course with unpowered fans, components could be damaged but I'm sure that everything will be ok as long as you power down the computer very quickly.
I would be tempted NOT to take this advise after seeing a processor explode (a chunk flew off) after about 2 seconds without cooling, this was a long, long time ago, but an expensive lesson at the time. Racking my brain to remember the processor type without resorting to google, the cheapo one which wasn't intel or AMD, Cyrix?Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant.0 -
I'm amazed that the absence of cooling for a few seconds could be so dramataic. Maybe that was the reason it was so cheap. I do know that my pentium 4 was ok for quite a while.I would be tempted NOT to take this advise after seeing a processor explode (a chunk flew off) after about 2 seconds without cooling, this was a long, long time ago, but an expensive lesson at the time. Racking my brain to remember the processor type without resorting to google, the cheapo one which wasn't intel or AMD, Cyrix?0 -
If you accidently disconnect the CPU fan the PC won't boot... it's a failsafe thing with most motherboards.There's someone in my head, but it's not me0
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