Computer update...

[arib]

Since I'm sure you're all curious, of course.

Popped open the case and listened to where the funky noise was coming from.

Good news: It's not the hard drive. (yay)

It's one of the fans. Not the exhaust fan, but the smaller fan that sits on the motherboard. Looking at the fan while it spun, it looked a little... wobbly isn't quite the right word, but it's the closest I can come up with. It seems secure, but it's making that noise, and I'm not sure what to do with it. If it was the exhaust fan I'd feel more comfortable trying to replace or repair it on my own, but it's the cooling fan attached to my poor computer's brain, and I don't want to lobotomize it by accident.

Wait for the fan to break, then take it to CompUSA I guess.

Comments

[qweeeejk.livejournal.com]

Yup, that would be the CPU fan. Bad idea to run a modern PC without one. The good news is, they're usually very easy to replace - at least the one on my (generic home-built) PC is. It just attaches by a couple of clips, and a small plug to power the thing.

[bfly.livejournal.com]

Uh, this is the voice of experience speaking. Don't wait for it to break. You need that fan, working properly, or all kinds of bad and expensive things can happen. When mine went out (silently, so I didn't know it was gone) I had to buy a new motherboard due to the havoc wreaked while the fan wasn't doing its breezy thing. It's cheap, it's easy to replace, doing it now is good insurance.