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I have been hearing grinding noises in my pc for some time now, I have ruled out my radiator [kraken x61] because it was happening before it was installed. When I turn it off and reboot it stops, could it be a casefan?

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Check your mechanical drive. Could be time to RIP

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Either your hard drive has a problem or its just a fan hitting cables. These are the most common cases(EDIT: Pun not intended), you need to check it out.

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DOes it happen when running games? It could be coil whine. 

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Possibly. Stop each fan manually.

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Do you have a seagate drive? i know mine grinds quite a bit. all of the ones I own do.

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Check your mechanical drive. Could be time to RIP

That was the case with mine, I left it in there... it is still in there. Should come in hand if we get robbed cause no one will touch my computer with a 10 foot poll unless your someone on this forum who knows what's inside :P

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Check your mechanical drive. Could be time to RIP

Just build my system 3 months ago :P

 

 

DOes it happen when running games? It could be coil whine. 

No, just on boot

 

Do you have a seagate drive? i know mine grinds quite a bit. all of the ones I own do.

Its a WD Blue, specs are in my sig

 

Hows your cable management? I had a similar problem once where, a loose cable was hitting the case fan when the side panel was on.

I thought it was pretty good, and I didnt see any cables hitting anything

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Just build my system 3 months ago :P

 

...doesn't hurt to check

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I have been hearing grinding noises in my pc for some time now, I have ruled out my radiator [kraken x61] because it was happening before it was installed. When I turn it off and reboot it stops, could it be a casefan?

 

It is likely to be one of two things:

 

Harddrive. This would be bad.

 

Fan bearing is loose or misaligned. This isn't as bad

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Just means its hard at work.

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No, just on boot

 

Its a WD Blue, specs are in my sig

 

Oh then that's fine. It happens to me as well (I have 1tb blue). If it was happening all the time then it'd be a problem. I think it's just starting up and all that goodness.

 

 

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You'd be far better off just pinpointing the issue rather than letting a forum full of people randomly guess at it. 

 

Step 1:  Shut down the machine, unplug power from the HDD, restart machine running only on SSD, see if noise is still there.  If not, you just found the problem, it it is, then its a fan.

 

Step 2:  Unlug all case fans see if noise stops.  If not unplug CPU fan momentairly.  If noise is still there with all case / cpu fans and HDD disconnected about the only thing left is the GPU fans.  At that point plug everything else back in and pull the GPU, boot with integrated video.

 

Its easy to narrow it down and see for yourself where the noise is coming from.

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Do you have a motherboard that has a fan on a heatsink?  It could be that; I was just reminded of an old machine I have that still runs, but it makes this grinding noise and after a lot of poking around I realized it was a tiny fan on a heatsink on the motherboard.

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You'd be far better off just pinpointing the issue rather than letting a forum full of people randomly guess at it. 

 

Step 1:  Shut down the machine, unplug power from the HDD, restart machine running only on SSD, see if noise is still there.  If not, you just found the problem, it it is, then its a fan.

 

Step 2:  Unlug all case fans see if noise stops.  If not unplug CPU fan momentairly.  If noise is still there with all case / cpu fans and HDD disconnected about the only thing left is the GPU fans.  At that point plug everything else back in and pull the GPU, boot with integrated video.

 

Its easy to narrow it down and see for yourself where the noise is coming from.

Yeah, I found it, its the front fan on my case, the top fan on the nzxt h440. Its the very top fan on the front, I cant seem to find out whats wrong with them, but im planning on replacing them with noctuas anyway since I cant see them :)

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Unbalanced fans? Mine are starting to do that upon boot, but it subsides after a minute or so. 

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