Recent content by lucio_mansilla

it was the psu!! i ended up just stoping the fan with a pencil, for a second. The noise went away, but as soon as i took the pencil away it came back. I'm gonna choose your answer as the solution, HEXiT. But before this thread is closed, i have a couple of questions about what should i do...

i did what you said and the fan didnt stop, so i didnt want to press any harder fearing something might brake. The thing is, there are only four fans: -2 case fans (already unplugged them from the mobo and the noise still happened so it wasnt them) -The cpu fan -The psu fan I was able to take...

i'm positive he gave me a different one, although he told me it was one he was using in another computer. I called him and he told me this fan never made any sound, neither did the old one which he was now using in a different computer. I don't think he lied to me. I'm gonna buy a new one and...

i disconnected the case fans and the noise persisted. There are no more fans except the cpu fan. I dont have a GPU installed or anything. All i have is the ram and the HDD (and of course the cpu and the psu) connected to the mobo. Its a very basic, cheap computer. I dont play video games, only...

Hi! I have a computer that i bought two and a half years ago. Its an Intel Pentium G3250 3.2 GHZ and the mobo is an Asrock H81M-VG4 R2.0. A few months ago i started to hear a loud grinding noise on startup that would stop after a minute or two. I cleaned up the entire computer, dettaching...