PC making a weird grinding noise. Please Help!

[kendramcclentic53]

Pc is only about 3 weeks old but I just started to notice the grindng noise its making. it seems to happen every 3 seconds. Please Help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHbpPpnLcSA&feature=youtu.be
( Listen closely as it was hard to pick up sound )

 

[ChumP]

Sounds like a fan is touching something in your case... open and check it.

 

[kendramcclentic53]

Sounds like a fan is touching something in your case... open and check it.

I'll give it a try. What would cause something like to that to change out of no where? without anything being moved

 

[ChumP]

Sounds like a fan is touching something in your case... open and check it.

I'll give it a try. What would cause something like to that to change out of no where? without anything being moved

Could be a cable that was close to a fan and now started touching it.

 

[kendramcclentic53]

Sounds like a fan is touching something in your case... open and check it.

I'll give it a try. What would cause something like to that to change out of no where? without anything being moved

Could be a cable that was close to a fan and now started touching it.

thanks for your help. here's hoping thats all it is. its just odd because it starts to happen after about 10 minutes of the PC being on

 

[mortemas]

Yeah, could be the copper in the cable expands as the computer warms up and that's what causes it to touch the fan. It only has to move a hair's width to touch the fan if it's already close enough.