Noisy Computer
Several months ago, my computer occasionally started making a grinding noise during the boot sequence. Switch it off then back on, no noise. My first thoughts were the cooling fan or hard disk was dieing, (IBM Deskstar, The warranty had just expired). As the noise was unpredictable, I disconnected or exchanged each fan, but still the same, so I setup a new drive, and the first time I turned it on the noise continued. Went on to suspect the floppy drive, things looked good for a while and again the noise returned. It has now come to a point were the noise is there almost every time the machine boots up, and stops about the time the XP desktop appears. Today I have cracked it, just removed the DVD-ROM drive. (LG GDR-8160B) While removing it I heard something loose inside. Any thought’s? The drive has been working fine, just noisy on boot up…