noise ? and exactly when does it start? always at the same point ? if
you run the BIOS settings, and left the computer for an hour or a
half, do you hear it ?
On Jul 31, 4:03 pm, iconlarry <cohe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have (maybe had) an 8 or 9 year old HP desktop computer running XP.
> It is my favorite computer (like an old pair of comfortable shoes).
>
> Lately it looks like it's near death. Here's the gloomy tale:
>
> Over the last three weeks the computer would freeze. Really freeze
> where the only remedy was to reboot the computer. At the times that it
> froze I could hear a low pitched howling sound that I could not
> pinpoint. Matters got worse. It started doing the same thing during
> the reboot process when loading windows. Then it got really worse. All
> I got were the fans whirling, the ability to open and close the
> optical drives (I have two), and the hard drive light staying on -
> nothing else. No video, no ability to go into the BIOS, nothing, nada!
> Here are the steps I took along the way to solve the problem:
>
> 1. Thinking the noise might be from on of the fans, I stopped them one
> at a time to see if the noise would stop. No luck.
>
> 2. The computer has a motherboard which connects to the to the drives
> via IDE cables which supports two hard drives; the "C" drive (100GB)
> for programs and the operating system, and a "G" drive (500GB) for
> data files. I disconnected the data HD ("G") from the system. No luck.
>
> 3. I replaced the "C" drive with its earlier version (40GB) that I had
> used to clone the present 100GB "C" drive. No luck. In fact I receive
> the error message "NTLDR missing." I then went back to the current
> 100GB hard disk - still with the same error message: "NTLDR missing."
> However, I was able to overcome this by using Hiren's Boot CD. [This
> is before the total failure I referred to above.] Also using Hiren's I
> tested both hard drives - they tested 'good.'
>
> 4. After speaking with a friend, he suggested it might be the power
> supply. I had bought a new power supply to keep on hand in case the
> current one got fried. After putting it in, the new power supply
> turned out to be DOA. (What else could go wrong?) So I a bought a
> power supply tester and tested both the old one and new one. The
> original power supply turned out to test perfect. (How accurate are
> power supply testers? What' a top notch brand?) The new one not so.
>
> Other than a defective motherboard which would necessitate buying a
> new computer, can anybody suggest a fix?
>
> One last question, 4 weeks prior to all this happening I replace the
> data hard drive "G" with the 500GB drive whereas the original "G" was
> a 200GB drive. Could this have stressed the system to cause the
> failure?
>
> Larry
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