My desktop computer keeps making a grinding noise!!

Get a new cooling fan.

It’s your shitty ass hard drive

clean it?

hardrive or fan figure out which

With what a vacuum cleaner?

Too many foreign spies are backdooring you all at once. It will eventually cause your OS to lock up and freeze. Then you need to reboot to sever the connections that are slowing your machine down.

I'm not a freaking engineer smartass. How the hell do I figure this out?

I buy reconditioned ones all the time and the noise could be a sign your hard drive is about to go belly up. Make sure to back up any lists you have in the computer

can of compressed air or a leaf blower.

It's your HDD. Moran.

Get a whatchamacallit SSD (solid state harddrive).

Fuck you.

call Geek Squad

My printer won't print. It says it's "offline." I have spent the past 3 hours trying to get it to work. :/

Neither am I but open up your PC cabinet and follow the noise
to figure out if it's a fan or a harddrive. Fucktard

your hamster running in there needs to be replaced

Given an Indian tech guy access to your computer via remote desktop. He'll fix it for you.

Clutch is shot.

Compressed air, clean out the fan.

If the noise is still there, backup your data ASAP, your hard drive is about to go kaput.

Replace with SSD

Make sure you plug the thingy into the whatsit

That typically means that your computer can't communicate with it. Check your connections to it. If it is a network printer make sure it's on the network.

I don't think the computer is making a peep.

Martin, please tell me more about your insanity.

When's the last time you fed it?

Could be a loose cooling fan bearing so the fan shaft vibrates. If you have a mechanical hard drive, there again some type of catastrophic failure is transpiring.

Just stab a little bologna into the vent holes, fixed me right up.

First you have to figure out exactly where the noise is coming from.
The most normal and easiest thing to fix is:


Last Edited by Inerone on 07/31/2020 05:28 PM

It's because it's low on water. Just take a cup of water and carefully pour a little in the back where you see the vents. Not too much! You don't want to blow that sucker up!

I don't really know how to do that.

I've run the troubleshooter, but it just keeps telling me that it's turned off when it's not. I've restarted everything. It's connected wirelessly so I'm sure it has something to do with the connection, I just don't know where to find that info.

I'm wondering if just uninstalling/reinstalling will help.

Last Edited by Anonymous Girl on 07/31/2020 05:31 PM

wipe it, like with a cloth.

This isn't about YOU