treymonfauntre
Magic Bag Of Sounds
so i have a cheapo emachines i got a little under 2 years ago. the damn thing has served me fine, until one day i managed to fill up my 180G harddrive. i soon noticed a grinding noise every once in a while, but if i rocked the tower around a bit it would stop. everything i found online indicated this was the hard drive about to fail. so i lived with it and knocked my computer around 5 or 10 times a day to get it to stop making that grinding noise, waiting for the hard drive to finally fail so i could replace it.
FINALLY, today, after months of living with this shit (i'd even started pricing out fan replacements, etc in case it wasn't the hard drive) i took the tower apart and waited for it to start.
anyway, long story short, after hours of waiting for the noise to start and peeking around, i found a tiny fan on my video card (ati all in wonder 9000), and thats the little bastard thats been ruining my life!
so now i'm debating whether i should replace this thing or just rip the fan off and hope for the best (which is what others tried on a forum post i found on google from a year or two back)... the fans are insanely loud and i'd really love to build myself a rackmounted computer for portable recording.
anyway, i just figured i'd share my experience. grinding noises don't always mean hard drive failures!
FINALLY, today, after months of living with this shit (i'd even started pricing out fan replacements, etc in case it wasn't the hard drive) i took the tower apart and waited for it to start.
anyway, long story short, after hours of waiting for the noise to start and peeking around, i found a tiny fan on my video card (ati all in wonder 9000), and thats the little bastard thats been ruining my life!
so now i'm debating whether i should replace this thing or just rip the fan off and hope for the best (which is what others tried on a forum post i found on google from a year or two back)... the fans are insanely loud and i'd really love to build myself a rackmounted computer for portable recording.
anyway, i just figured i'd share my experience. grinding noises don't always mean hard drive failures!