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Sounds like it's probably the power supply fan. Unless there's a front case fan, that's probably the only other one.
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Just tried that one too. I stuck a platic straw in the power supply to stop the fan. It didn't stop the noise. This is driving me nuts!! I have tried putting pressure on every board, every cable and it still makes the noise.
I think I better stop screwing with this thing before my mechanic trouble shooting practices kill it for good.
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Are you sure your power supply has only one fan? Seems like I had one with two before, and I didn't even know the second one was there for a long time.
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Not a little chipset fan, is there? (I'm sure you would have seen it, but I'm trying to cover all the bases here.)
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Sounds like the noise must be generated by either a fan or a motor. Do you have a separate video card with a fan that's making noise? I've had trouble with my last two vid cards and fan noise.
You said in your 1st post that you're using two hard drives. Have you tried booting to just the startup screen with both hard drive's power disconnected? No harm would be done, and you would at least eliminate your drives as the issue.
And no, there are no other fans in the CPU other than heat sink fan you've already tried, so it's not the CPU.
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Sounds like the noise must be generated by either a fan or a motor. Do you have a separate video card with a fan that's making noise? I've had trouble with my last two vid cards and fan noise. That's it!!! There's an itsi-bitsi fan on the video card... Cool. Now I don't have to screw with formating the new hard drive. How hard would it be to hook up the new hard drive and use it as some sort of back up? I'm not seeing another set of wires to hook it up in there.
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You have to look on the motherboard for another place to hook up another set of wires. Follow the set back from your HD down to the board and right near it there is usually another connector, if there is you will just need to get the cable.
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What I've done when is just disconnect the dvd drive and use those connections with the hd temporarily sitting in the case somewhere. I'm no expert and the it guys will probably cry foul when they read this, but it's worked for me. I always keep a spare drive in a drawer with fully tweaked OS and programs so if I have a problem I'm only 5 min. away from being back running again.
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Nope, that's cool. It's the same bus, so whatever you want to do!
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