Richo
28-09-11, 17:51
Hi,
I have had my Aria built PC for a couple of months now. Here (https://www.aria.co.uk/WishList/ISup7I9HF8e71bbz9dzKrQ,,) is the spec.
In the past few weeks, each time the PC has been off for a while (more than a few hours) and I boot it up, a noise develops somewhere inside the PC. It sounds like an unbalanced fan but I can't pinpoint the exact component that is making the noise.
Here is a video of a startup with the case door off. You may need to turn up the volume a bit.
tbbZ9ARz5sQ
The noise sounds louder than the video represents. I tried to feel the components that have a fan to see if I could feel any vibration. The CPU cooler, graphics card and PSU all felt fine.
I thought noise sounded like it was coming from the front of the case so I removed the front case panel and stopped the fan from spinning. This did nothing so it can't be the intake fan.
Here is another video with the case door on.
HWVhXmo2ikk
You can here at the end of the video me tapping on the front of the case. A gentle tap usually stops the noise after the PC has been running a minute or so. If I restart the PC after the noise has stopped it doesn't reappear, it only happens on a cold boot.
I live in Nottingham so taking it back to Aria would be tricky/expensive so I would rather fix it myself if possible. But it's not like I have any spare parts that I can use, so I know that may be very difficult.
Has anyone got any ideas what it could be? Or how to go about finding which component is faulty? I hope it's not he PSU as I was a cheap skate and bought a non modular one :cry
Thanks in advance
James
I have had my Aria built PC for a couple of months now. Here (https://www.aria.co.uk/WishList/ISup7I9HF8e71bbz9dzKrQ,,) is the spec.
In the past few weeks, each time the PC has been off for a while (more than a few hours) and I boot it up, a noise develops somewhere inside the PC. It sounds like an unbalanced fan but I can't pinpoint the exact component that is making the noise.
Here is a video of a startup with the case door off. You may need to turn up the volume a bit.
tbbZ9ARz5sQ
The noise sounds louder than the video represents. I tried to feel the components that have a fan to see if I could feel any vibration. The CPU cooler, graphics card and PSU all felt fine.
I thought noise sounded like it was coming from the front of the case so I removed the front case panel and stopped the fan from spinning. This did nothing so it can't be the intake fan.
Here is another video with the case door on.
HWVhXmo2ikk
You can here at the end of the video me tapping on the front of the case. A gentle tap usually stops the noise after the PC has been running a minute or so. If I restart the PC after the noise has stopped it doesn't reappear, it only happens on a cold boot.
I live in Nottingham so taking it back to Aria would be tricky/expensive so I would rather fix it myself if possible. But it's not like I have any spare parts that I can use, so I know that may be very difficult.
Has anyone got any ideas what it could be? Or how to go about finding which component is faulty? I hope it's not he PSU as I was a cheap skate and bought a non modular one :cry
Thanks in advance
James