11-05-2011, 05:11 AM
It's 6AM, and I'm woken up by a rather loud growl coming from my PC. For the past few weeks now I could have sworn my graphics card fan was dying. So, I turned down the fan even lower than I already had it. While I was waiting for the temperature to stabilize so I could decide if I could go back to sleep or should just shut the beast down the noise stopped. So I turned the fan back up to where it was and nothing seems to have changed. (Aside from the fact I'm sitting here typing this shivering because like an idiot I decided to 'balance' the cooling problem by opening a window.
ANYWAY
What I'm asking is, is there anyway for me to determine what's failing without putting extra stress on the PC? I'm in a bit of a tight spot right now and can't afford a new system and I'm not too keen on freezing either. For that mater, is it even failing, could something just need cleaned? I cleaned it about a month back and it's been in an attic with me, relativity clean where it was. We did just move recently as well but I made sure everything was in it's proper place before I booted up my PC...
It's worth noting the "Growl" wasn't immediately alarming, sounded a bit like my graphics card fan at 100% but... "Angry" and it took me a second to realize it was my PC and not the Heater in the closet
Edit: Roughly thirty minutes have passed since the growl stopped, nothing seems to have gotten better or worse
ANYWAY
What I'm asking is, is there anyway for me to determine what's failing without putting extra stress on the PC? I'm in a bit of a tight spot right now and can't afford a new system and I'm not too keen on freezing either. For that mater, is it even failing, could something just need cleaned? I cleaned it about a month back and it's been in an attic with me, relativity clean where it was. We did just move recently as well but I made sure everything was in it's proper place before I booted up my PC...
It's worth noting the "Growl" wasn't immediately alarming, sounded a bit like my graphics card fan at 100% but... "Angry" and it took me a second to realize it was my PC and not the Heater in the closet
Edit: Roughly thirty minutes have passed since the growl stopped, nothing seems to have gotten better or worse