On Feb 21, 7:18*pm, "SteveH"
wrote:
poachedeggs wrote:
On 21 Feb, 14:16, TVeblen wrote:
On 2/21/2010 5:07 AM, poachedeggs wrote:
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What's your opinion on this? I started reading up about whether a
cold home could be bad for a pc, and saw some advice to stop at the
BIOS stage in cold conditions to let the machine warm up. The
terrible din hasn't recurred - the only reason I'm not at present
reacting to your splendid advice - and I've also moved the pc to the
least cold part of the room.

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No. Heat is the enemy of electronics. Not cool-ness.
A fan squeal is a mechanical issue. It would be aggravated by cold
conditions but that does not change the fact that the fan is
defective is some way - usual;ly correctable by proper oiling as the
others have pointed out.
Other than BIOS error code beeping, I can not think of a single
instance where a noise coming from anywhere but the speakers could
be software related.

We can ignore the fan noise now, it occured only yesterday and has
stopped. *I just need to learn more about my other enquiries here, the
instability with W7 - Windows Explorer crashing and whether it's to do
with awrong bios setting in relation to my 800mhz ram etc. *I've put
the posting on Asus' own forum too but it seems fairly moribund there.

Thanks *for any further input.

Could just be the Elixir memory, I've never had any luck with it, and I've
tried it on a few builds. If I do a build for someone now, they pay for
Crucial or get a PC with no memory.

--
SteveH

In case anyone else looks here in the future with similar aggro, I
needed a newer BIOS, and the CPU fan needed some 3-in-1. All is well
now. I hope nothing was worn or overtaxed on the way to this
relaisation to the extent that the life of themachine is shortened.

Amazing really - the people that built this forgot to plug the HD
light in, fitted the CPU fan cursorily and didn't update the bios to
suit the processor, I'm almost tempted to name them...