computer noises .. help

[woodyfly]

recently my computer has been starting to make buzzing noises when i start up my comp... when this noise is active, my comp performance is very bad... windows starts up slow, programs load up slow. i try to restart and it tries to force end many programs like they are not responding.. so i have to force shut down on it.. after turning on and shutting down a few times.. the noise is gone and everything is fine.. i turn it off... next day in the morning its the same thing. do u guys think it could be the fan? help is greatly appreciated

comp specs:
-512 ram
-2.2 gh amd athlon
-nvidia geforce 4 mx420 integrated
-windows xp home

[John Prophet]

I dont think any of the fans would make the performance slow down though....but you might boot with the side case cover off and see if you can pinpoint the noise.

If its the hard drive making the noise that make make more sense as to why it is slowing down the performance.

JP

[Bill in SD, CA]

If it was a fan then it would either CPU or PSU.

I had a noise similar and it was the CPU.

But I agree with JP a noisy fan wouldn't, IMO, cause a system slow down.

Bill

[links]

I had the same problem. Except for me it wasn't slowing down performance. Mine was just a fan dying. See if you can pinpoint the source.

Links

[woodyfly]

well i found where the noise is from... im not very good at hardware so bare with me... noise is coming from some kind of fan.. dont know if this is the computer fan or what because there is 2 of them... 1 on the back of the computer and 1 attached to the motherboard... the 1 attached to the mother board is the 1 making the noise.. its labeled COOLER something so im guessing its something to do with the computer cooler? it is more complex than the fan on the back of the computer.. the fan on the back is just a fan swirling .. this 1 has many cables behind it and stuff

[The Real Bingo]

Yeah, the heatsink fan. That would explain the lack of performance if your cpu temps are going up. May wanna look into replacing that ASAP.

[woodyfly]

is there any way to cool it down without getting a new one?

[Bill in SD, CA]

No.

If it's dying, it's dying.

Last thing you want is for it to seize up and stop.

Cost of a fan is a LOT less than a fan and a CPU.

Fairly straightforward to replace.

Just have to be careful taking it off the heatsink/processor.

Bill

[I2n0ld]

Originally posted by woodyfly
is there any way to cool it down without getting a new one?

yup..dont turn ure computer on
but u really need to replace it

welcome to techimo!!!

[Jokerswild]

If it is a crack in a fan blade, just take an old solder gun and tip and easily melt the two pieces back together, no more fan noises.

But I serously doubt it would slow system performance