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?
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Richard (CW)
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?
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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.Originally Posted by CitizenBBN
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Richard (CW)
Is it immediate? And then stop when you close it?
What windows version? We need to check out the CPU usage.
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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?
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CPU Usage is 0-21% max.
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.
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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.
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Richard (CW)
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.
If it is XP then the poor thing is probably thinking too hard to figure out what Chrome is
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