- Jun 17, 2005
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For a month or two now, I occasionally hear a rather loud, high pitched whine coming from my comp. Most of the time it starts at startup, about the time the WinXP login screen comes up (booting takes about 45-60 secs before that). It fades away after 10 or so seconds, and comes back only occasionally.
I'm pretty sure this isn't a fan for two reasons. For one, it's not constant, whereas all my fans run at a constant speed. Second, it seems to be somewhat related to certain events. For example, last night it started while I was browsing some sites. It went on and on, but as soon as I closed IE it suddenly stopped. Curious, I fired up IE again and closed it right away, and the whining restarted and went on for a couple seconds. I repeated this a couple times, and sure enough, it only happened when IE was open (strangely enough, opening My Computer didn't set it off).
Any ideas what could be causing this?
I'm pretty sure this isn't a fan for two reasons. For one, it's not constant, whereas all my fans run at a constant speed. Second, it seems to be somewhat related to certain events. For example, last night it started while I was browsing some sites. It went on and on, but as soon as I closed IE it suddenly stopped. Curious, I fired up IE again and closed it right away, and the whining restarted and went on for a couple seconds. I repeated this a couple times, and sure enough, it only happened when IE was open (strangely enough, opening My Computer didn't set it off).
Any ideas what could be causing this?