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My hard drive is not making any kind of clicking noises right now. My guess would be either the fan in the back or the power supply. I haven't looked at the inside in detail to see if there is any dust or something lose or something else. I live in a two story house. My pc is upstairs and the upstairs is warmer then the downstairs because it's closer to the sun. Would a temperature in the environment cause the issue?
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Are there any devices that should not be real close to a pc. I have a widescreen monitor that is only a few inches from the tower and a land phone that is only an inch from the tower. I don't think that my hard drive is about to fail because I haven't noticed anything odd that would indicate a hard drive failure.
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Are there other issues that might cause a whirling sound on a pc?
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My desktop is from 2003. The only thing that I have on the cpu is a heatsink. No fan on top. There is a green cover that goes directly to a fan on the back of the case. I have an integrated video card. No fan on that.
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My fans are not thermally controlled.
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Does the temperature of the room have to do with the issue?
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My fans are made out of plastic. I never forget to remove any cds from the drive.
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The fans were not covered in dust. They spin at full speed and there is air coming out of the back. The fans were not cracked at all. I took a can of air and squirted the power supply vents.
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Today my desktop computer sounds like a whirlpool. There is no dust on the outside and I just checked for dust on the inside. I'm running windows xp. Other then cleaning out dust, what else can I check?
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I already have version 8.
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I just downloaded and installed internet explorer 8 after using version 7 for some time. My default windows xp installation has version 6. My question is if I reinstalled windows xp home edition and then I started to update windows, would I go from version 6 to version 7 to version 8 or would I skip version 7 and go straight to version 8?
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I already know how to reinstall windows xp as well as update window xp, install drivers and software.
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I last installed xp in 2007. I haven't done a reinstall yet. I'm thinking that my installation is starting to show it's age, but unless it gets messed up left and right, I don't plan to reinstall.
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The last time that I reinstalled XP was in 2007, not that long ago. However when I did the reinstall, I didn't add a firewall or virus scanner until later which was not a good idea with a high speed internet connection and then around december of 2007, my onboard NIC went out and I ended up adding a USB to ethernet adapter because if my eithernet cable was directly attached to my NIC, windows would not even recognize it. Nowadays, when I boot up to xp, my computer stays at the welcome screen longer then it should. I do backup my data every Sunday to an external hard drive. If I can't replace i