laptop making noises

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mikekelly

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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
 
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penguinrusty said:
It's possessed! Teh computer of teh DEVIL!

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