TCH-Thomas Posted June 30, 2004 Posted June 30, 2004 Not sure this is hardware or software (OS) related, move it if you like... Not exactly sure how to explain this... but after pressing the computers ON-button it takes a second or two before I hear a beep from the computer. But lately, between the pressing ON-button and this beep sound it has been some "chewing" sound from the computer. After the beep it all works as it should though. It all started after I had checked an old floppy. Any ideas what may be wrong? Quote
TCH-Don Posted June 30, 2004 Posted June 30, 2004 It sounds like the computer is still trying to load a floppy. If you haven't changed any thing, not sure why. I wonder if it is checking the floppy to see if a boot disk is in there. Mine is still set up to check the floppy at bootup. Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted June 30, 2004 Author Posted June 30, 2004 It is set to check for floppies at boot up, but I was thinking that since there is no floppy in it to check it shouldnt try to and certainly not do this sound 1-4 times. Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted June 30, 2004 Author Posted June 30, 2004 Addition...I forgot to say... It does only do this at boot up not when rebooting. If looking for a floppy, shouldnt it do it even if rebooting? Quote
TCH-Don Posted June 30, 2004 Posted June 30, 2004 Yes, I just rebooted and the drive light comes on for a second. Sorry no help here. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted June 30, 2004 Posted June 30, 2004 Maybe a wire inside touching a fan? I usualy pop the side off and have a listen/look while I power it on. Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted July 1, 2004 Author Posted July 1, 2004 I usualy pop the side off and have a listen/look while I power it on. You have problems with noises often? Im sorry to say this but it could be your stomach. No, seriously... Thanks Rob I´ll check that as soon as possible. Quote
Madmanmcp Posted July 1, 2004 Posted July 1, 2004 Try going into CMOS and disable the floppy boot option. If it continues, pull the power plug to the floppy drive and check again. If it continues its not the floppy and will probably be the CD drive. Didn't you just get a new DVD burner or was that someone else? Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted July 1, 2004 Author Posted July 1, 2004 It was me who got the DVD burner. I got it yesterday, but forgot to buy empty dvd´s so i dont know how that works yet, but burning a cd worked fast (40x instead 8x on the old). I´ll check the bios/cmos thing. Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted July 1, 2004 Author Posted July 1, 2004 I have now in cmos done this: 1. Changed boot order to the following; 1st; CD-rom 2nd; HD-0 3rd; HD-1 4th; Floppy but... there was an option if I wanted to *seek for floppy a boot up too which was enabled but is now disabled. Should that be disabled? *= Dont remember the exact words. About pulling plug, would that just be for diagnostic reasons or should I let it be pulled? There´s some practical (physical ) reasons to that I would like to not have it pulled forever. Quote
Madmanmcp Posted July 1, 2004 Posted July 1, 2004 pulling the power plug was to eliminate the probable cause, no power=no floppy would mean no sound...unless something else is making the noise. But your problem maybe that additional option, seek for floppy maybe whats activating the floppy motor which maybe the source of your sound. So first turn off that option, if that doesn't fix it try the power plug to the floppy to help narrow down the sound. If the sound goes away you know its the floppy. and can plug it back in. Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted July 6, 2004 Author Posted July 6, 2004 Power plug for floppy is now unplugged but the noise are still there. Any other suggestions? Quote
Madmanmcp Posted July 6, 2004 Posted July 6, 2004 Ok, that rules out the floppy, plug it back in. Now you need to check the CD's, DVD's or the fan. You can perform the same thing on the DVD and CD's of pulling the power plug and checking the sound. Do them one at a time and plug them back up if the sound is still there after rebooting. Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted July 6, 2004 Author Posted July 6, 2004 Ok, I dont think it can be the cd/dvd though since the noise came before I installed the new dvd which means I know the plug are correctly connected. Or is there other reasons (in lack of words) that can make the plug do the noise? Quote
Madmanmcp Posted July 7, 2004 Posted July 7, 2004 No, the plug does not make the noise. The plug supplies the power to make the drives work and thus makes noise. Without power there is no noise. I am just having you eliminate one by one each piece until you find the one making the noise. and I am betting its the fan... Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted July 7, 2004 Author Posted July 7, 2004 This noise, can it be because of a harddrive-failure? One of my two harddrives died today. Quote
TCH-Rob Posted July 7, 2004 Posted July 7, 2004 After taking the hard drive out do you still hear the noise? Quote
TCH-Thomas Posted July 7, 2004 Author Posted July 7, 2004 (edited) I havent taken it out yet, but I was investigating the cd/dvd plug today as Bob told me to do. then when I tried starting it, it told me there was no bootdisk. Edit: I forgot to say, that I did disconnect its power, but harddrive is still installed. Edited July 7, 2004 by Jikrantz Quote
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