Is there anyone experienced with the innards of computers who would like to come over and try to help me get my computer to not be so noisy?
Are you experienced with A/V hookups? I know I could be getting more brilliance out of my TV and VCR then I am currently getting with those red/white/yellow cords, but when I start to try to figure it out, my brain fries. Wanna help? Radio Shack is but 2 blocks away from my house!
Are you a good photographer, and possess a quality digital cam? Wanna come over and take photos of my fish tanks?
Dinner for all three of you if you come over!
Are you experienced with A/V hookups? I know I could be getting more brilliance out of my TV and VCR then I am currently getting with those red/white/yellow cords, but when I start to try to figure it out, my brain fries. Wanna help? Radio Shack is but 2 blocks away from my house!
Are you a good photographer, and possess a quality digital cam? Wanna come over and take photos of my fish tanks?
Dinner for all three of you if you come over!
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The briiliance might be due to where you have your signal running from and where you are connecting.
I have a pretty decent digi too.
Too bad I'm in VA now. You'd owe me three dinners. ;)
Luna is right. Just open the computer chassis and clean out any dust you see, one of those cans of compressed air you can buy for $3 can help get in the nooks and crannies. If that doesn't do it, buy a new fan, should be under $20 at CompUSA or someplace. It's easy, just unscrew/unplug the old one, and reattach the wires of new unit however the old one looked.
Good luck.
The first thing to do is to figure out which of the fans is making most of the noise, and to do that you probably want to take the case off and listen. You might also very briefly and very carefully stop the fans one at a time (which you can often do by pressing your finger on the solid center of the fan) to get a sense of how much each one contributes to the noise. (You probably can't do that with the one in the power supply, though.)
Oh, and sorry I didn't know you wanted fishtank pictures when I was there; I'd have been happy to take some. Er, except that I didn't have my camera with me. <church-lady>Never mind.<church-lady> :-)
PS the second: Do you leave a DVD or CD in the drive? The kind of noise that's coming from your machine is similar to a DVD or CD spinning very fast with a non-circular label on it generating turbulence. I'm pretty sure I asked you about that, though.
(Aside: am I the only person who finds it hard to use "a" instead of "an" in front of starts-with-a-vowel markups?)
BM, I may be able to help with your TV.
Buzzing - It could be that the fan is dirty.
Vibration - One of the cards may be loose and just need reset. Have you moved your PC recently?
Also a photog but am not in NY.
If things are still noisy, you might need to look into what they are. The bearings can go on older fans, making them noisier. New fans are usually pretty cheap (under $30), and fairly quiet. You can get newer, quieter power supplies, which is a more expensive option, but still usually under $100, even for a high-end PS.
If you are getting noise on disk access, you may just have a noisy harddrive - they make drive silencers, but you can roll your own fairly cheaply from plans on the internet. I would add a small fan to such a system, to keep the drive cool, and not lose too much drive lifespan. It can still be a net noise savings, if you do it right.
Or, the drive could be going bad - in which case, replacing it is probably your best bet. Depending on how old the drive is, you can probably get a much larger, quieter, faster HDD for $120 or less.
In my experience, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives with grinding noises are nearing the end of their life. I think you can probably lube the motor bearings if you really want to, but it's fairly cheap and easy to get a replacement. Fast DVD and CD drives can whir pretty loudly, I'm not sure what you can do about that, if anything. Writing drives are usually louder, in my experience.
A quick googling of 'quiet computer mod' gave me this link, to a site that sells quiet PC equipment - but the article isn't bad. There are plenty of hardware mod sites that will give you gory details on how to damp out PC noise - usually by buying their products.
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I would LOVE to come take pictures of your fish tanks. Do you want pics of individual living creatures too? That would be cool. I have a nice camera, and 95% of the pics I take are of animals or nature type things... so I feel that a fish tankl would fit in nicely. Plus I used to work with fish tanks... anyways. So no promises that they will be amazing but I would like to give it a try if you have not already found anyone. And my Ma'am is out of town Thurs-Mon so I actually can do it this week if you are up for letting me try.
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Exciting!
Yay fish!
I don't teach fire, and something tells me one class only won't be worth it.
For the computer noise you have to look at the moving parts, power supply, fans, and hard drives. If you want you can open the case up while it's on and disconnect each one of the fans one at a time. Just be careful not to touch anything else when it's on and ground yourself first.
Hey, at least you can hear it :)
Generally the ones that do were found in my old office at ABC, a TV studio.
Last holiday season was the first generation where it became common. My TiVo and old DVD player both have them as well.