[CUBE] Ailing Cube, insights please?

[Abigail Kelly]

Thank you for all of your responses.

I'll try running it without the shell to try to
isolate the noise. Never having run it with the
shell off, is this tricky or are there any
special care instructions for doing this?

I'm going to back up my hard drive, try to
determine the problem and write back with what I
determine.  Thank you for all of your help.



--- Riba <riba at hi.hinet.hr> wrote:
> 
> On 16 Feb 2004, at 16:54, Abigail Kelly wrote:
> 
> > My cube sounds as if it has a fan(?) that is
> > about to die. It is making a loud but uneven
> > whirring noise. Like when you take your foot
> on
> > and off of the gas pedal of a car. It doesn't
> > seem to be affecting performance but the part
> is
> > definitely about to quit working.
> 
> If you have a Radeon graphics card, it is most
> probably the fan on the 
> card. When they fail, and they always do, you
> get this grinding noise 
> that changes pitch. Replacement fan is almost
> impossible to get, but I 
> replaced mine with a passive heatsink and it
> was working fine. It is 
> not a simple task though. If possible run your
> Cube without the shell, 
> that will make it easier to determine the
> source of the noise.
> The other possibility is that the hard drive is
> about to go...
> 
> 
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