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Any reason why my laptop is now making a rachet noise??

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piggynose | 20:25 Mon 21st Jun 2010 | Technology
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i originally it was the builders outside, but they´ve left hours ago. the noise actually puts me in mind of the toy car you had when you were very small, and you´d hold it in yr hand and run the wheels against the floor, and the wheels usually made this sound like wheels rotating on their own from a toy car
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Maybe the fan rubbing against something?
20:27 Mon 21st Jun 2010
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there are 3 moving parts in most laptops....

Fan: something might have poked into one of the air vents and be catching on the fan, check in the vents with a torch and see if you can see anything.

CD/DVD drive: they can make a lot of noise with certain (slightly out of balance) disks in them, remove anything from the CD drive

Harddrive: you really want to hope it's not this!
20:29 Mon 21st Jun 2010
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it's trying to communicate with you in the only way it knows how
20:32 Mon 21st Jun 2010
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Is the CD/DVD drive a Liteon, by any chance?
21:06 Mon 21st Jun 2010

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