Annoying chirping

system · 2006-11-20T14:22:45.000Z

I have encountered a very annoying chirping sound. It reduced significantly after running a v scan. Only one v found. it stops every time I run a v scan and then starts after a few mins - intermittently.

Lisandro · 2006-11-20T15:00:20.000Z

It’s difficult to say but seems related to hardware (HDD) and not software… :

system · 2006-11-21T03:11:27.000Z

Yes I do agree with Tech that this is probably the hard drives
(Mine does the same, but now I’m used to it ) ;D

Al968

system · 2006-11-27T02:40:30.000Z

Thanks. Will have the Dell folks ckeck it out!

OrangeCrate · 2006-11-27T16:22:53.000Z

Normally I don’t submit “me too” posts, but this may be of help…

I had a “chirping” sound a while back, and thought it was the hard drive too.

In my case however, it wasn’t the hard drive. It turned out to be a dry bearing in the CPU fan. I had it replaced along with the heat sink for $12.50 at a local computer repair shop.

Edit:

A quick search found this interesting site:

http://www.dansdata.com/fanmaint.htm

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