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[arib]

Home computer is making funky noises again...

We had a brief blackout at around 4AM or so, and I was woken by the sound of my machine rebooting itself. I let it run through it's diagnostics, then shut it down. When I boot it up in the morning, it booted, and was working fine, but there's an awful motory noise coming from the tower. It doesn't sound like the hard drive, but I shut it down and I'll take a peek inside when I get home tonight. I think it may be a fan or something, but I'm not quite sure.

Any local geeks feel like taking a look at it sometime soon? I'll bribe...

Comments

[cellio]

Good points. Space needs aren't that high (mine's about the size of a shoebox), but there is the money thing. A UPS costs less than a new disk drive, but it's the insurance question: certain expense now vs possible expense later. Always a hard call.

Good luck with the repairs! I'm no good with hardware, which is part of why I went for the insurance. :-) (I mean really no good with hardware -- like, I get other people to install memory and simple cards for me, and bought an external hard drive when maybe a second internal one would have been fine.)