Had a blue screen after a cold start-up. 32 file was mangled. Of course I had no back-up, and shrugged off the data loss, and re-loaded OS.
Everything cool until today, and the pc sounds like a bad power steering pump. I believe the fan is running OK, but not sure how to diagnose what is noisy and what to do about it. It is a 6-ish year old VPR BestBuy house brand. P4 2 Gig-1.99Gig/512Meg ram.
How do I diagnose the whine?
What type of internal HD do I to look for, if I am needing to replace it? Totally lost by IDE, parallel and serial. I only need minimal storage-thinking 80gig- 8meg-about 40 bucks.
I swap it, format it and reload OS (XP2000), right?
Oh, and get a backup system...
Everything cool until today, and the pc sounds like a bad power steering pump. I believe the fan is running OK, but not sure how to diagnose what is noisy and what to do about it. It is a 6-ish year old VPR BestBuy house brand. P4 2 Gig-1.99Gig/512Meg ram.
How do I diagnose the whine?
What type of internal HD do I to look for, if I am needing to replace it? Totally lost by IDE, parallel and serial. I only need minimal storage-thinking 80gig- 8meg-about 40 bucks.
I swap it, format it and reload OS (XP2000), right?
Oh, and get a backup system...