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January 21st, 2011 01:00

XPS 'Buzz noise' from cold

Hey guys,

I have just recently started to experience a strange problem with my Dell XPS M1330 laptop. When I start it up it starts to make a constant buzzing noise which sounds quite aggressive at some points.

It has only started to do this for around a week now.

I have cancelled out the fan as when it was 'buzzing' I looked underneath and the fan wasn't on, so it couldn't be that, unless the buzzing is from the laptop trying to actually spin the fan.

My other suggestion, not sure if I am correct, is that the hard drive is buzzing, as that would be the only other thing on my mind that would physically spin on the internals of the laptop.

Also, another point to make is that the laptop has been in areas of harsh coldness at times, maybe something expanding from cold to hot is causing something internally to interfer with another part?

All of these are just guesses and not sure if anyone else is experiencing the same problem.

Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Rob

  • robfenn

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    Posted January 24th, 2011 01:00

    Anyone?? :emotion-6:

    Thanks.

    Mark

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    Posted January 24th, 2011 04:00

    Hey!

    A few questions  at  the beginning ;)

    Is the fan actually spinning up, when you boot your laptop?

    Can you see dust or maybe other objects blocking the fan?

    And finally, is the laptop booting in to windows at all.

    Another thing could be a disk in your  cd/dvd-drive, if you have one.

     

    Nibs

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    Posted January 25th, 2011 01:00

    Hey thanks for the reply.

    Not too sure if the fan spins upon bootup, I'll have to check that.

    Doesn't look like there is dust or anything blocking the fan but I can check that out too.

    Yes the laptop boots to Windows fine, after a while as the laptop warms up, the buzz noise actually goes away...

    Also, there is no CD in the drive.

     

    Mark