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Frank8200

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March 3rd, 2005 11:00

Squealing heatsink???!!!

I get an intermittent squeal on my 8200 which I originally thought wes a noisy fan. This is getting more frequent and lasting for a longer period of time. Well...after opening my unit up and unplugging the CPU fan - the squeal was still there! I determined that it was coming from the heatsink area and pressed on the top of the heatsink. Lo and behold...THE NOISE STOPPED! Do I have a bad heatsink?
 
I did a search but did not seem to find anyone else with this problem.
  • Jesse L (retired)

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    Posted March 3rd, 2005 14:00

    Frank8200,

    Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.

    You may want to email support@dell.com and have it replaced if it is makeing all the noise.

     

    Jesse L (retired)

  • Frank8200

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    Posted March 14th, 2005 13:00

    Disregard the squealing heatsink! I was wrong about the noise coming from that area! It is actually coming from the fan on my NVIDIA gelForce 2 GTS graphics card. (I posted a question about replacing the fan on the video forum)