Computer hard drive question please

[Carolinawildcats]

My hard drive is really noise when I open up a google chrome browser. Sounds like the fan is spilling a thousand MPH. When I close the browser, it gets quieter. Still not complete silent. It is desktop about 5 years old. It has been doing this for a couple of months. Any thoughts on why and how to fix?

Thanks

Peace

Richard (CW)

[CitizenBBN]

is it the drive or the fan running? Fan would indicate high CPU usage, triggering the fan to go faster. Hard drive might be one of several things. D

Desktop or laptop?

[Carolinawildcats]

is it the drive or the fan running? Fan would indicate high CPU usage, triggering the fan to go faster. Hard drive might be one of several things. D

Desktop or laptop?

Chuck...it is a desk top with a tower. It sure sounds like the fan cranking wide open and it's very loud. Gets really loud when I open google chrome browser.


Thanks

Richard (CW)

[CitizenBBN]

Is it immediate? And then stop when you close it?

What windows version? We need to check out the CPU usage.

[Carolinawildcats]

It does not complete stop when I close it, but gets softer. It is XP....yes I am old school!!! How do I check the CPU?

Thanks again!

[Carolinawildcats]

CPU Usage is 0-21% max.

[CitizenBBN]

Can you watch it when you open and close chrome? I'm wondering if something there is spiking it and that is kicking the fan on high.

[Carolinawildcats]

Now that the browser is open, it keep fluctuating between 0 and 100%. The fan will star revving like an engine at times. Soft to loud revs.

Thanks

Richard (CW)

[PedroDaGr8]

Any chance that the heatsink is filled with dust? That can cause this behavior (though so can a virus). I can promise it isn't the harddrive though.

[KentuckyWildcat]

If it is XP then the poor thing is probably thinking too hard to figure out what Chrome is :)