Looking for Computer Hardware Specialist

[Goken]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3c0I0c4X3A

If this is a video of your PC, then this is without a doubt the CPU fan itself or something obstructing it. You can visually see and hear the changes in integrity of the sound when the fan slows down from its max posting speed to a normal operational speed.

[RAIST]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3c0I0c4X3A

Had that happen once with a scythe style fan.....stupid molex connector managed to get in there and a blade just snapped right off. Popped off a blade on the opposite side of the one that broke to help balance it a little. Didn't completely kill the roar, but it dropped it enough to be tolerable until I could replace it.

Was perfect timing too, the stock intake fan burned out just as my new fans arrived. Fortunately I had ordered a 5 pack of Kaze Jyuni's for the discount...man those things can move some air. Have a bit more roar than I like (system sounds like it's gearing up for take off), but I can actually feel the air getting sucked in the front.

[Dragoy]

stupid molex connector managed to get in there and a blade just snapped right off.

Really?

That's quite a performance!
And I've seen a CPU actually produce smoke due to me mis-inserting it (this was about 15 years ago, though).

Then again, things they make these days are made to break.
A Commodore 64? You could give it a beating, pour stuff on it, and it would work!
Stuff these days are meant to break, and no one can say it is not so.

I still haven't seen a blade of a fan to snap off!

But yeah, that's getting a bit off-topic.

Would be nice to hear of the situation at hand.

[Seriha]

Last summer it's like 5 in the morning and I start smelling smoke. I start running around the house looking to see if something's on fire, upstairs, to the basement, but couldn't see anything. Head back up to the main floor and start slowly walking between rooms trying to sniff out the source since I couldn't actually see any smoke or feel heat. Eventually I bend over and take a whiff of the PC tower in the family room, yup. Unplug it, peel off the case, take it outside, and start blowing the dust out with our air compressor thinking maybe some dust got somewhere it shouldn't and was just cooking. It's basically when I'm done blowing the thing spotless when I notice on the motherboard, way down in the front corner, that it had fried a nice little charred circle where the frontal USB ports wire in. I honestly have no idea what went wrong precisely, be it something getting into the ports and causing a short or the parts themselves being faulty, but I wasn't able to salvage the mobo.

Probably the first failure of any electronic device I've owned. I still have a working NES, among other things.

[DrStrangelove]

I am trying to find somebody who ACTUALLY knows what they are talking about to help me solve this strange little issue i have been having with my PC for a while now:

Before ANYTHING even loads, within a split second of pushing the power button, my computer begins to make an extremely loud noise akin to a buzzer going off, or some kind of warning buzzer. I have double checked everything within the computer to ensure everything is wired up correctly and see no faults. I have tried looking through google a couple times but nothing I have found is the problem I seek to fix. If anybody who knows what they are talking about (i say this because I don't want my PC to be in worse condition if somebody inexperienced says something that SOUNDS like it makes sense and i try it) can help me, I would highly appreciate it since I refuse to dish out $50 an hour for some guy to probably tell me it is something simple.

Having dealt with PCs for a LONG time, my suggestion is you use it until it stops working. You obviously can't fix it yourself since you can't even determine what's wrong, and yet you are adamantly against having a pro look it since it may cost a whole $50. No one can determine what's wrong from a forum post. Even if we could help, you are apparently not PC savvy enough to follow the guidance. (Again, I am going by your post: you simply don't sound like anyone I know to be knowledgeable.)


If it doesn't stop working, then it was INDEED "something simple."

However, if it does stop working, you'll then have decide whether you want to have someone knowledgeable fix it or instead chunk it in recycling. You will have saved the $$ to have someone tell you the "something simple" that was wrong with it, because now it will have obviously, not been that.

Barring an electrical fire in the PC (which can happen, but is probably very rare), you might not not lose anything except the installed and saved data. Of course, if it's a PSU problem, fan problem or short circuit, you could actually do more damage to your PC by running it further.

In short: spend $50 to have a pro diagnose the problem or gamble that it's not very bad or that if it is bad, it won't cost much to fix when it goes completely bad. In the latter case, barring a fire, you COULD lose internal components in the PC (CPU, video card, hard drive, RAM, motherboard.)

I would have someone look at it.