Cool. I'd like a door stop that does cool things like that (door stop is all it's good for)Originally Posted by MSTRS
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Cool. I'd like a door stop that does cool things like that (door stop is all it's good for)
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Suffers from peterpan syndrome
"buzz, whirr, clunk"
sounds like a hard drive failing to me mate...but what would I know...Im just an IT Technician
Could be many other factors tho, best you run it into a PC repair shop...tell them to back up the data first! (half of those muppets forget to do this important step)
note:...if it has multiple HD's, disable (unplug) all but the master drive (one with windows on it)...restart and see if its just the secondary drive failing.
...good luck!...and yes...they is pure friggin evil!
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Trying to be a good dog
took them all day... if you place your hand over the drive and these sounds correspond to vibrations you can be certain"buzz, whirr, clunk"
sounds like a hard drive failing to me mate...but what would I know...Im just an IT Technician
Could be many other factors tho, best you run it into a PC repair shop...tell them to back up the data first! (half of those muppets forget to do this important step)
note:...if it has multiple HD's, disable (unplug) all but the master drive (one with windows on it)...restart and see if its just the secondary drive failing.
...good luck!...and yes...they is pure friggin evil!
bugger, new driver software and operating system install, all day job
my drive is getting weak and noisy now
Eating the fruit of knowledge was the original sin, so yes, pure evil
The instructions are simple...
Got a techie in yesterday arvo. He did the following...
Turned it on. Opened IE. Computer crashed, with one small difference...the Acer login screen came up where before it went dark.
He turned the case on it's side and removed the cover. Inspection showed a fair amount of dust in the fins of the CPU heatsink but otherwise clean.
Turned it on again to check various fans all go. No problems. Didn't crash.
He then loaded a techie program to force CPU to 100% for a set time...no problems. Same program adjusted to force RAM to fill up to near-100%...no problems.
He then loaded another wee program to check/report HDD ... 100% good, operating perfectly, no bad sectors.
He then loaded another program - this one to monitor CPU temperature...under 42C...ran the CPU-force program again...didn't move the temperature.
All this took about an hour and a half, which time the damn thing ran flawlessly. He did believe me about the problem since it did for him first up. Maybe laying it on its side shifted something?
Disconnected the case and took it outside for a quick squirt with compressed air to blow out said dust, reconnect and fire up. All good. $123 KA-ching!
Still all good.
Fecken bastard computers.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Trying to be a good dog
I would place it near you with covers off so if/when the HDD fails again you can clearly hear/feel the noises and be certain by touch
Intermittent faults are notoriously difficult to get repaired by another, they turn up and everything is fine!
You will need to be involved yourself otherwise it gets costly and difficult to ascertain the repair needed
Have it running on the table right beside you.... with cover removed
whence you can shove a chubby digit upon HDD casing when noises may begin again. Otherwise you will be none the wiser upon next possible failure. If naught occurs during the next month, its prolly gone away and related to dust or a cold joint that has has re-bonded via the movement during servicing...
Servicmen sometimes charge a hundy just for tapping with a hammer
Don't forget to bring a towel
I'd be a bit worried if he wasn't measuring the temperature right from the start when running a CPU stress test, especially on an unstable system with a fault that is yet to be diagnosed. I usually open up HWMonitor and then run Prime95 while watching the temperatures for the first few minutes.
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Sorry, too lazy to read but the problem was too much dust in the HSF?
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I fixed my laptop last week
few beers , sat down , on the laptop ..
fixed
New screen from laptopscreens.com
Bugger
Stephen
"Look, Madame, where we live, look how we live ... look at the life we have...The Republic has forgotten us."
The instructions are simple...
Maybe ... .
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Hardsnore Biker
You do realise that in an unspecified short time period from now it will do something similar, just after you start thinking its all good?
ArseBiscuit
Reboot it bro.
The instructions are simple...
Oh, I do alright. Which is precisely why I firmly believe that computers are fecking evil bastards.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
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