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chris635:
Hey Shane

     On occasion my system gets a hum to it (Sounds electrical). How do I perform a hardware check? I'm using windows 7 64 bit home premium on an hp machine that I loaded windows 7 on.



Chris

Shane:
Does the hum happen as your using the system more?

Reason I ask is a lot of times the cpu fan is set to auto and will pick up speed as the cpu temp rises. Which of course will give a louder humming noise.

Next time it happens take the side of the case off and see if you can pin point where the hum is coming from. :wink:

Shane

chris635:
Sounds like an electrical  buzz coming from the hard drive vicinity. Ram is right behind it, so I did perform the windows ram check. It's definitely not the cpu fan. It will happen idle or while I'm using it. I pulled the computer apart and cleaned it inside, so far no electrical buzzing. I don't know if unplugging it and hitting the power button to completely discharge it for cleaning helped yet. Guess I'll have to give it some time and see.



Chris

Shane:

--- Quote ---unplugging it and hitting the power button to completely discharge it for cleaning helped yet.
--- End quote ---

That will help :-)

Shane

chris635:
I already took the side case just to make sure something wasn't overheating.


Chris

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