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laptop noises?

eclectichoney · 2004-04-22 09:45:40

my laptop has suddenly started making a strange growling sound for about 6/7 seconds when you turn it on, never at any other time....is this just a mildly irritating thing or a sign of something more worrying...i.e. is it more like a death rattle??

22-04-2004 9:45am

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eclectichoney

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my laptop has suddenly started making a strange growling sound for about 6/7 seconds when you turn it on, never at any other time....is this just a mildly irritating thing or a sign of something more worrying...i.e. is it more like a death rattle??

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#2 22-04-2004 10:01am

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Try clean out the fan, If it starts rattling more, well it could be the fan on the way out, which will nacker the harddrive.

John

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#3 22-04-2004 10:28am

Kazu

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sounds like the harddrive

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#4 22-04-2004 1:11pm

deckie27

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My friend has a laptop with a similar problem except his comes on every few minutes for a maybe 30 secs. I think it an IQON problem.

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#5 22-04-2004 1:38pm

Stephen

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That sounds normal for a laptop running on batteries. My toshiba is set up to turn the fan on every few minutes to strike a balance between power consumption and cooling.

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