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What is that noise? My fan?
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| Newbie Tech 2002-06-22, 8:43 pm |
| I have a 3 year old Gateway (P3 500) and noticed a weird hum every once in
awhile that only goes away when I tap the case. Any idea on what is
happening? Is my fan brushing up against something? This happens at least
once a day. I think it's being doing this for the past few months. Thanks
for your help.
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| Chris Evans 2002-06-22, 8:43 pm |
| Sounds like it is more than likely your fan. Open the case and take a look.
Intermitent fan problems seem to, in my experience, be a sure sign of a
slowly dying fan , especially if you tap it and it works again. If you're
still under warranty, Gateway probably won't send you a new fan assembly,
but they will send you a new power supply complete with the fan. Not a bad
deal.
"Newbie Tech" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I have a 3 year old Gateway (P3 500) and noticed a weird hum every once in
> awhile that only goes away when I tap the case. Any idea on what is
> happening? Is my fan brushing up against something? This happens at
least
> once a day. I think it's being doing this for the past few months.
Thanks
> for your help.
>
>
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| Jim Peters 2002-06-22, 8:43 pm |
| I've had hard drives make noises like that before they die. Backup your data
now!
"Newbie Tech" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I have a 3 year old Gateway (P3 500) and noticed a weird hum every once in
> awhile that only goes away when I tap the case. Any idea on what is
> happening? Is my fan brushing up against something? This happens at
least
> once a day. I think it's being doing this for the past few months.
Thanks
> for your help.
>
>
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| Tom MacIntyre 2002-06-22, 8:43 pm |
| On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:32:59 GMT, "Newbie Tech" <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:
>I have a 3 year old Gateway (P3 500) and noticed a weird hum every once in
>awhile that only goes away when I tap the case. Any idea on what is
>happening? Is my fan brushing up against something? This happens at least
>once a day. I think it's being doing this for the past few months. Thanks
>for your help.
>
>
Open up the case and identify the source of the noise. It's a fan or a
hard drive.
Tom
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| Jim Macklin 2002-06-22, 8:43 pm |
| Xref: 127.0.0.1 alt.certification.a-plus:10308
Look for wires or other items that may be touching the fan. I had a HP that
had a cable touching the fan and it caused a noise, luckily it did not do
any damage to either the cable or fan. A few tie-wraps have it all cleaned
up.
"Tom MacIntyre" <tom__macintyre@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3d12d053.153558213@news.wolf...
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:32:59 GMT, "Newbie Tech" <nospam@nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
> >I have a 3 year old Gateway (P3 500) and noticed a weird hum every once
in
> >awhile that only goes away when I tap the case. Any idea on what is
> >happening? Is my fan brushing up against something? This happens at
least
> >once a day. I think it's being doing this for the past few months.
Thanks
> >for your help.
> >
> >
>
> Open up the case and identify the source of the noise. It's a fan or a
> hard drive.
>
> Tom
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| xygote 2002-06-22, 8:43 pm |
| On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 00:32:59 GMT, "Newbie Tech" <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:
>I have a 3 year old Gateway (P3 500) and noticed a weird hum every once in
>awhile that only goes away when I tap the case. Any idea on what is
>happening? Is my fan brushing up against something? This happens at least
>once a day. I think it's being doing this for the past few months. Thanks
>for your help.
>
maybe its the case, cases can be really noisy sometimes.
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| Newbie Tech 2002-06-22, 8:43 pm |
| Thanks for all of your help and opinions. I really appreciate it.
"Newbie Tech" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> I have a 3 year old Gateway (P3 500) and noticed a weird hum every once in
> awhile that only goes away when I tap the case. Any idea on what is
> happening? Is my fan brushing up against something? This happens at
least
> once a day. I think it's being doing this for the past few months.
Thanks
> for your help.
>
>
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| RodgerH 2002-06-22, 8:43 pm |
| Newbie Tech wrote:
> I have a 3 year old Gateway (P3 500) and noticed a weird hum every once in
> awhile that only goes away when I tap the case. Any idea on what is
> happening? Is my fan brushing up against something? This happens at
> least
> once a day. I think it's being doing this for the past few months.
> Thanks for your help.
I had the same symptom in my last computer -- it was the fan on the Pentium
233 causing the flimsy aluminum heatsink to setup this awful hum -- not all
the time but sometimes, like you describe sometimes tapping the case would
cause it to cease, but iwas real annoying. I have not had this problem
since switching to a Celeron, they have higher quality fans and more sold
heatsinks.
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