It's still bigger and uglier than what I have at work, but with a new CPU fan and PSU and the harddisk mounted with elastic cord in a 5.25 " bay, I've at least got the noise down to tolerable ( i . e . barely audible ) levels . talk ) 14 : 42, 8 August 2007 ( UTC)
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On a 1 GHz laptop with Firefox, it's taking over 10 seconds for the edit box to appear, during which time the CPU fan has to run continuously . ( While we're at it, I also dislike the big blue submit button on the login screen, which is not in keeping with the style of the site, and is redolent of Twitter.
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:: : : : : Also, a well designed " wind tunnel " design with one fan blowing in and another fan exactly opposite blowing out, with little blocking the flow of air in between, would work well, but computers I have seen just have one fan blowing out, and maybe another CPU fan blowing nowhere in particular, and many components blocking the air flow.
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Depending on what the specific beeps mean for your system, as Tagishsimon describes, it's likely to be a defective or unseated CPU or memory module, a disconnected CPU fan, a problem with the power supply ( perhaps just its connection to the motherboard, or a failure of the power supply itself ), a defect or bad connection in the graphics adatper, or a defect in the motherboard.
