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My big pc in my office (not my laptop - yet) does that occasionally and my bf is an IT person. I said something about the fan whining and he came in there and moved my papers from in front of the intake - where the air goes in to keep the internal hardware cool. I've had other pcs that have done that and once I had to have the fan replaced. Since they fan keeps the pc cool it's really important. Sometimes it only involves cleaning the dust off of the fan - he blows the fan out with high pressure air - like on the tank that he adds air to the tires with a different attachment. Its much the same as cleaning a floor fan - you can do it as he does with that air cleaning which gets inside the motor which is really where it gets clogged up. Otherwise if you can't use air to clean it - you can at least clean the blades which also get totally covered with dust and dander.

All the whining is - is the fan dragging. And like Melinda said with her pc - it can literally go up in smoke - if the fan stops working as it eventually will if it is working double time to cool your pc - first the fan will stop working and never come on and then the pc will overheat and no longer work. It can burn up the pc.

The ac was just out in the computer room where my bf works and it was a huge deal that the temperature wouldn't stay between 65 and 70. Everytime the temp would go above 75 they had to get AC people out there as all the equipment in the IT room can burn up. Computers - hard drives have to stay cool or the equipment will fail.

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Yeah-I did use an air sprayer but it still is LOUD. It doesn't wind-but you can definately hear the "brain" working! It moves slower too.