fan noise

So, my laptop has been getting very hot lately. I thought lowering my number of processors in System Configuration would help. When I checked it the number of processor was at 8, I decided to lower it to 4. Then when I tried playing a game the laptops fan was very loud. So, I wanted to change it...

Hello everyone! so I am currently in Europe and I had my desktop computer mailed to me from the USA. When I try to boot it it up, nothing is displayed on the monitor besides "no signal". I thought maybe the HDMI cable was loose but it was not. I thought that maybe the graphics card was not...

Two weeks ago I made a clean install from Windows XP 32-bit to Windows 7 32-bit. Was worried that new OS won't work properly because my PC is 7 years old and may not have the best specs, has survived a virus and hard drive crash twice. So far it works flawlessly. Now I'm been bugged with "Get...

Hi all, I've just used HP Recovery from boot up (F11) to begin a reinstallation of windows 7 on an HP Pavillion dv7. The Recovery process began, and went through formatting the disc to 100%, but after re-booting, all I get is a completely black screen. Nothing at all appears on the...

Hello everyone, I have a Sony VIAO running windows 7. The laptop is about 3 years old I believe. I'm having an extremely strange problem that seems to have no solution. About a year ago, one day out of the blue, the laptop went crazy. I would try to type something and whenever I pressed a key...

Hello guys, First of all..im not a person who knows alot about these kind of stuff but here is the situation....i have this laptop acer aspire 4530(its around 2 yr usage)..it is still same as first i bought it..nothing were changed except for 2 stick of ddr2 ram (1gb each) ,[ system bios version...

My computer has started to make a lot of noise on start up and I think that it is the fan. I have been looking at fans, but I really do not know where to begin! My cpu is AMD FX-4170 Quad Core Processor, I think that info is needed, but I do not know which sort of fan or cooling system to...

The story goes like this: My laptop lost power and died - but I had not shut it down properly for 2 or more weeks. This has happened before so I thought it would be OK. I restarted the computer, everything worked fine EXCEPT when I put it to sleep again it crashed/hung with the screen all...

hello,I have a laptop with windows 7 that is just over a year old. I have never had any problems with it until this past week. I went on a vacation and had my laptop in a case for around 14 hours. When I got into my hotel room I started up my laptop and had the bluescreen display. I simply...

Do your case and/or PSU fans suddenly become noisy when you turn on your PC and do they eventually quiet down, in most cases, the fan is not going bad, just a little TLC is needed. This quick guide will show you how to quiet down those noisy fans. Tools needed; 1. Phillips head screwdriver 2...

Hello everybody. I am new here and moreover, I am not a native speaker so I would like to apologize for my grammar mistakes in advance. The problem I am facing right now is that I can't start my notebook, all that I get after powering it on is a white screen. The fan starts to work too, but...

Hello all; For the past several mornings, when clicking my mouse to wake my PC from sleep mode, my screen remains completely black. I can hear the PC start up, the fan running, etc. I can even hear the Windows log on sound when I punch in my password. All power lights are on, but the monitor...

I have Windows 7 installed on my laptop. It recently won't shutdown properly. When I shut it down, it will be shutting down the machine, turn off the monitor but after then my power light is still on and I can hear the fan is still spinning. Any suggestion on how to resolve this? Thank you.

Hi there. I recently (~6 months ago) bought a new laptop. An HP Compaq 6735b to be more exact. I have been running Windows 7 32-bit until lately where I decided to buy another 2Gb of RAM. I now had 4Gb ram in total and didnt see any reason why not to use the 64-bit version of Windows 7. (we get...

Hello I formatted and installed Windows 7 home premium on my Samsung r 700 laptop (specification- Intel dual core t5550, 3 GB of RAM, 250 gig hard drive and the nvidia geforce 8400m gs graphics chipset) two weeks ago. The installation went without a problem and I managed to get all...

512 mb ram Dell dimension 5000 there is a PC in my house that is totally messed up.. there are two main problems: First of all: When it is on it ranges from 2 minutes to 1 hour, but the screen just freezes. nothing you can do about it. it just freezes no mouse, keyboard or screen works. now i...

I got this email from HP this morning This just the main part ****************************************************************** URGENT SUPPORT NOTIFICATION FROM HP ****************************************************************** Excessive Fan Noise from GeForce 9500GS Graphics Card...

This may be off topic from vista but I was just wandering. What temps should I look at? Rite now core0 is at 53C and core1 is at 55C. My office has no cooling or insulation so it can get hot in here. The other day the temps hit 62C and my fans fired up for the first time in the 2 years sence I...

I am really satisfied with Windows 7- I installed it on my ASUS pro31jc Notebook and it runs almost perfect. I only have isues with my Laptop (not with Windows 7) and my Problem is following: My Laptop Fan is too loud, maybe it is because its too old. Maybe my Fan is working as it should and i...

I am having so many problems with my Vista computer, even though it comes on a clean install. Aside from the regular crashes, my CPU usage and fan run high on even limited applications. (watching a 1 minute spot commercial on WMP, for example, sets off my fan like a plane propeller). I notice...