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Resolved Kingston SSHD occasionally very noisy at startup

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by bellisimo, 2015/02/20.

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  1. 2015/02/22
    bellisimo Lifetime Subscription

    bellisimo Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Hi Mr. Bill,

    Thanks for the quick reply.
     
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  2. 2015/02/23
    TonyT

    TonyT SuperGeek Staff

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    Realize that a fan without dust is still capable of making noise. Fans have bearings and like any other machinery will wear out over time. Some can be lubricated, some have sealed bearings and cannot easily be lubricated.

    I'm sure Bill will agree with me that the #1 enemy of electronics is heat. Moving parts that lack lubrication will generate more heat. Heat will cause lubricants to dry out or change the lubricant's physical structure, and eventually the equipment will fail, sometimes gradually and sometimes all at once.

    If a fan is the problem then you are lucky as it can be replaced before other parts fail due to excessive heat buildup. To those of us that repair comp hardware a noisy fan is a welcome problem, it means it's not yet too late to restore functionality and prevent further damage.
     
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  4. 2015/02/23
    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    I do agree completely - as noted by the last line in my signature!

    Hopefully, it is a case fan as they are easy to find and replace. A CPU fan would require a little more care as you will need to carefully clean off all the old TIM (thermal interface material) between the CPU and heatsink mating surfaces, then properly apply a fresh new layer with the new fan or new heatsink fan assembly. Same with graphics card fan, if there is one.

    PSU fans can be replaced too, but generally recommend most "normal" users just replace the PSU.

    However, if this is a hard drive motor (if you have a hard drive in addition to your SSD), then you need to immediately back up any data you do not want to lose, and replace the drive.

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    One more clarification about "hard" drives - since SSDs are not "soft" either. The name "hard" referred to the "disks" inside the drives. So really, it was a "hard disk drive" and you often saw it as HDD. They were called "hard" disks to differentiate them from the older style "floppy" disks which were used in floppy disk drives.

    In HDDs, those disks are also called "platters ".
     
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  5. 2015/02/23
    retiredlearner

    retiredlearner SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Here's a good explanation/dictionary to better understand computer language:http://pc.net/glossary/
    Cheers Neil.
     
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