laptop making noises

mikekelly · 06-16-2005, 07:46 PM

hey guys and girls!

When i boot up my laptop its started making a labouring sound which wasnt present a couple of weeks ago, this sound seems to continue even when my machine is idle for 5-10 minutes and nothing much is running, is this something to worry about or something i should just ignore. I have a dell desktop and that labours like hell, even though its pretty clean and i check for spyware/trojans/virus regular, even though that computer is only 2 years old it is not very high spec and i just took it that it was struggling managing some of the software and stuff i run, as it only has 256 ram.

on the other hand my laptop(which is a dell inspiron 5160) has 512 ram and 3.4GHz processor power and a 51 gig hard drive (which is 40gig full) and i never had any real trouble with it before, and it ran pretty quiet up til last week or so. last night i cleaned off a heap of spyware, ran a virus and trojan check in safe mode and then when i log on again today its still making this sound.

does anyone know what might be making it sound this way?

cheers
Mike

penguinrusty · 06-16-2005, 08:43 PM

It's possessed! Teh computer of teh DEVIL!

Anyway, is it like that clicky sound? Or maybe something's stuck in the fan?

mikekelly · 06-17-2005, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by penguinrusty

It's possessed! Teh computer of teh DEVIL!

Anyway, is it like that clicky sound? Or maybe something's stuck in the fan?

yeah rusty, more like a clicking sound, i guess its the sound your computer might make when you put a bit of strain on it, the only problem is there is no strain on it, even when i doing nothing with nothing running it still makes this noise.

btw are laptops hard to clean, as in cleaning the fan? I have only had it 8 months and i dont really know alot about computers, can anyone advise me how often they should be cleaned and if its hard to open one of these things up and clean em.

kof2000 · 06-17-2005, 10:02 PM

hardrive failure coming!!!! mwahahahaha.

penguinrusty · 06-17-2005, 10:33 PM

Hmmmm...I don't thik anything's wrong. Our laptop does the same thing when it's not doing anything. Does the hard drive button light up?

06-16-2005, 07:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
mikekelly Gold Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Age: 27 Posts: 365	laptop making noises hey guys and girls! When i boot up my laptop its started making a labouring sound which wasnt present a couple of weeks ago, this sound seems to continue even when my machine is idle for 5-10 minutes and nothing much is running, is this something to worry about or something i should just ignore. I have a dell desktop and that labours like hell, even though its pretty clean and i check for spyware/trojans/virus regular, even though that computer is only 2 years old it is not very high spec and i just took it that it was struggling managing some of the software and stuff i run, as it only has 256 ram. on the other hand my laptop(which is a dell inspiron 5160) has 512 ram and 3.4GHz processor power and a 51 gig hard drive (which is 40gig full) and i never had any real trouble with it before, and it ran pretty quiet up til last week or so. last night i cleaned off a heap of spyware, ran a virus and trojan check in safe mode and then when i log on again today its still making this sound. does anyone know what might be making it sound this way? cheers Mike Last edited by mikekelly; 06-16-2005 at 07:53 PM.

06-16-2005, 08:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
penguinrusty Platinum Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Grass Valley, CA Age: 17 Posts: 577	It's possessed! Teh computer of teh DEVIL! Anyway, is it like that clicky sound? Or maybe something's stuck in the fan? __________________ "Weighing in at an extremely portable 42 pounds (lbs) is the Lappy 486. Finally, a computer for your lap. By Compy." -StrongBad AMD Athlon 64 4800+ X2 DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR 2gb Geil Value RAM Maxtor 160gb SATA hdd Hiper Type-R 550 watt PSU Aopen DVD burner ATI X1800XT

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06-17-2005, 10:33 PM	#5 (permalink)
penguinrusty Platinum Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Grass Valley, CA Age: 17 Posts: 577	Hmmmm...I don't thik anything's wrong. Our laptop does the same thing when it's not doing anything. Does the hard drive button light up? __________________ "Weighing in at an extremely portable 42 pounds (lbs) is the Lappy 486. Finally, a computer for your lap. By Compy." -StrongBad AMD Athlon 64 4800+ X2 DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR 2gb Geil Value RAM Maxtor 160gb SATA hdd Hiper Type-R 550 watt PSU Aopen DVD burner ATI X1800XT

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