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(Vanity) A little PC question (Vanity)
me | 6/20/2005 | me

Posted on 06/20/2005 11:05:57 PM PDT by birbear

Hi all you wonderful tech savvy guys (and gals).

I'm having some strange noises coming out of my PC. Sounds kind of like the power supply fan hitting something (what it could be hitting, I have no idea.)

There seems to be some debat among my local techies on if it's a power supply, or if it's a hard drive (I have 2 in the machine.)

What's your best guess? It's a 3 year old machine (Dell Dimension 4500) with a 250 watt power supply. The oldest of the two hard drives is probably 4 years old.

Any thoughts?


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To: Squantos

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41 posted on 06/21/2005 11:59:24 AM PDT by Born Conservative ("If not us, who? And if not now, when? - Ronald Reagan)
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To: ThePythonicCow

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42 posted on 06/21/2005 4:42:05 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Whop-bobaloobop a WHOP BAM BOOM!!)
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To: birbear

That's a small power supply, hope you went for a bigger one..


43 posted on 06/22/2005 10:36:02 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I wish I could. Dell, in it's infinite wisdom, made a non-standard power supply... so i bought a dell replacement power supply for the same exact machine i have...

Next 'puter is going to be custom built.
44 posted on 06/22/2005 12:20:07 PM PDT by birbear (I know it might be wrong, but I'm love with Stacy's mom. And Kim's. And Rachel's. And Janet's.)
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To: birbear
Next 'puter is going to be custom built.

It's the way to go!

45 posted on 06/22/2005 5:15:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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