mikekelly

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