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08-24-2008, 08:35 AM
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It constantly makes noise like it's working or something, but no programs are running  Only about a month old HP m8430f.
any ideas?
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08-24-2008, 09:17 AM
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08-24-2008, 09:32 AM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | | Making noise how?
Does it sound like the hard drive?
Anything in the CD/DVD drive?
Is your PM box busting at the seems?
Do you use any screen savers? Any of the eye candy on with Vista, like the DreamScene desktop or sidebar stuff? |
08-24-2008, 10:27 AM
| | NYC BassFest 8/12/2012 | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Elmont, NY (near NYC) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Chunk-O-Funk  Making noise how?
Does it sound like the hard drive?
Anything in the CD/DVD drive?
Is your PM box busting at the seems?
Do you use any screen savers? Any of the eye candy on with Vista, like the DreamScene desktop or sidebar stuff? | sounds like the hard drive, like it's busy, when it shouldn't be.
nothing in any drives.
computer is clean.
it is vista, no dreamscene, sidebar is on.
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08-24-2008, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by john turner it's probably telling you to read your private messages. | oddly enough, I don't believe that to be it.
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08-24-2008, 11:05 AM
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08-24-2008, 11:17 AM
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08-24-2008, 11:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | | If you have scheduled auto-defragging turned on, as it is by default, there will be some intense HDD activity at certain times.
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08-24-2008, 12:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | | it could be google desktop search indexing stuff. Or it could be telling you to get a mac. or both.
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08-24-2008, 12:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | Is it possibly just a knackered fan ?
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08-24-2008, 01:20 PM
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Builder: Valenti Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Staten Island NYC | | | I noticed that the fan on my PC would go on and off A LOT. I took the side cover off and noticed that the fan that was attached to a heat sink that was connected to ( I think) my processor was full of dust and overheating. When I cleaned the dust out, it reduced the fan majorly. |
08-24-2008, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by fdeck It's busy updating your operating system and protecting you from malicious software. | auto updates are off, I despise them. it actually only seems to happen when I have Mozilla running, for the most part.
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08-24-2008, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Nino Valenti I noticed that the fan on my PC would go on and off A LOT. I took the side cover off and noticed that the fan that was attached to a heat sink that was connected to ( I think) my processor was full of dust and overheating. When I cleaned the dust out, it reduced the fan majorly. | definitely not the fan. it's as if it's downloading something or running an unknown program.
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08-24-2008, 04:37 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | You can open Task Manager and click on the processes tab. Then sort by CPU usage and you'll see if there's a background process that's using resources. |
08-24-2008, 06:33 PM
| | | | argh! I hate vista. My wifes laptop was doing the same thing. Slower than slow. I read somewhere about the indexing feature of Vista. So i went into my computer and then right click the C: Drive, uncheck the index this drive checkbox and tell it ok. It will take 5 to 10 minutes to undo the indexing feature on every file on the computer. Once i did that on my wifes laptop it was acting like a new machine. The hard drive was no longer running constantly, and it sped the machine up noticably. I would try that first........ |
08-24-2008, 06:34 PM
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08-24-2008, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by The Crusader auto updates are off, I despise them. it actually only seems to happen when I have Mozilla running, for the most part. | Do you have Google Desktop search?
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