I don't have tiume to make the new forums yet since I'm also not sure how I am goign to arrange them, but I need to ask this in case anyone may know.

My computer makes almost no noise for hours and hours and hours, but for 5 straight days it randomly out of nowhere makes a LOUD buzzing noise where I have to turn it off. Earlier yesterday I had to turn my computer on and off 10 times before it would load back without that noise too.

So in other words, it's not always after it's been on for many hours. Sometimes I will turn it off to rest it a few hours and still when I turn it back on, boom immediate loud noise.

One day I pressed against the left side of the computer when it was making only the slight nmoise which leads up to this louder one. And it made it where it was not having the noise while I was applying pressure.

It's not the hard drive because the hard drive will be making it's noise at the same time sometimes and plus a hard drive has that "clickity click" noise as it's being read, not some loud buzzing noise.

I keep thinking my comp will die and I haven't even backed anything up because it's a hassle and plus if I back up my files for my programs I make... well every day those change and I can't keep redoing a cd/dvd every day to get the newesyt versions or that takes forever!

I am hoping since sometimes pressing on the computer makes the sound go away maybe it's just something loose which is rubbing against something? If not, then it must be the cooling fan or power supply itself or something? Maybe a cd drive? I doubt that though.

I bought this compuyer (a dell) only 3 years ago. And I thought it was great for havinhg 512MB RAM and 160GB hard drive. NOW even the MINIMUM dells seem to have 4 times my memory and more disc space.

They have only 2.0GHz processers on some of the low-end ones though and even mine has 2.8. My dad said the new processors are supposedly much better than my pentium 3 for this comp though.

I really hate the thought of buying a new computer when I already need to buy my expensive fantasy baseball teams and some other things. I saw a cool very small dell which has much better specs than my current computer and it's only anywhere form $500 to $700 I think.

It's one which has a rack on it and is thin where I could put it on my desk and put the monitor on top of it. Currently my comp is in the floor and the dust may have led to this issue to begin with.

And by the way it seems that almost EVERYONE thinks windows vista is total crap and some programmers even have suggested not to buy a computer at all if you can do without a new one if it means using Vista if you do buy a new one.

I saw I can geta downgrade to XP but it's pretty annoying to have to pay EXTRA to get an older operating system.

I couldn't get it started without that horrible noise. I tried countless ti8mes. Then I vaccumed out a lot of dust and cobwebs and now it's not making the noise. I don't see how that could fix it, aas I would assume if dust caused the issue it would have been permanent damage. But for now it is suddenly working, so who knows. I sure wish it would work because I don't want to buy a new computer.

I finally had enough of this and bought a Dell Inspiron 530s with the highest memory offered, highest hard disk space offered, best processor offered, best dvd drive offered, etc...

I probably should have just got it with lower specs and paid half the price though honestly. If it has no hardware problems for 5+ years then it would probably be worth the price I got it at with a coupon, but if it does have issues then next time I better just get it fixed rather than shelling out this cash. I am thinking I should have got low-end specs in case I want something better in a few years or something goes wrong.

Maybe someone would buy my old computer if I get it fixed. It isn't "horrible". It has 160gb disc space, 2.8 processor, and then only 1/2 a gig of ram though. My new one will have 4gb ram, 750gb space, and dual core2 3.0GH processors.

Wow. Dell is flat horrible. They sent it, it has issues so far, etc. I am deciding whether to keep it or not. I notice almost no improvements over my old one. Mianly better graphics and SLIGHTLY faster but barely noticable. However now I already spent a lot of time making it look how I want it to and also putting stuff on it.

I could be wrong but it sounds like you just needed to replace the fan.

I did that. I tyhink I posted in ehre somewhere I replaced the pwoer supply (which has a fan). There is at least one more fan, but it seemed to get rid of the noise just replacing the power supply/fan. But now I have everything moved to this computer so I guess I spent a lot of money for nothing mroe than more space and it's faster in some instances. I will hopefully sell my old one.