whats causing this noise?

[debby_s]

Morning All

   I wonder if anyone could help me here..  I have a friends laptop computer (xp) that he has asked me to look at for him. He let his friend fiddle about with it, supposedly tweaking settings etc.. Since his friend has touched it it makes a loud racing noise (not sure wether its coming from the harddrive or the fan)  whenever anything is clicked on/ opened/ run...  Before this it was really quiet.  I was wondering could messing with the settings speed up or make louder the fan or hard drive? If so is there a way i can restore those settings back to before? I cannot do a system restore as there were none saved prior to his friend messing it up. Am i going down the wrong path thinking it could be settings? Could it be something totally different?

  Any help would be very much appriciated.

Thanks,

Debby.

[Neil]

Ask your friend exactly what it is he did. That will make it a lot easier to undo what he has done.

[debby_s]

Hi Neil,

    Thankyou for the reply. I asked what he had done to it when he brought it over and he said his mate said he had done some 'xp tweaks'. When my friend asked him to 'un-tweak' it he said he didnt know how to    The idiot was drunk at the time too.


  I have a feeling its the fan making the noise tho as it sounds like its coming from there.  When the lappy starts up it makes a racing sound as tho' its speeding up, like a cdrom does.. gawd this is soo hard to describe!... then it slows down to normal again, then if i open a program/ webpage it speeds up again until the page is loaded/ program opened then slows again, and this continues whilst using the lappy, it drives ya mad tho, very annoying and loud.


Bet you wish you hadnt answered me now eh?  

Debby.

[panboy]

I'm not Really sure what causing your Problem, but i know of an XP Tweak site, that has a whole bunch of Tweaks and and a Few files To undo the Tweaks as well, maybe if you apply one of the Default files it could help

it was Called , Black viper... and i just Went looking and it seems to have... Went Poof , maybe some one Archived his stuff

http://www.dead-eye.net/WinXP%20Services.htm

Dam this site is not the complete Deal, but it Tell's you what services you should turn on or off

[debby_s]

Thanks so much for that, il let you know if it helped

[debby_s]

Im afraid it didnt solve the problem Anyone think of something else i can try?

[honvetops]

I'm not Really sure what causing your Problem, but i know of an XP Tweak site, that has a whole bunch of Tweaks and and a Few files To undo the Tweaks as well, maybe if you apply one of the Default files it could help

it was Called , Black viper... and i just Went looking and it seems to have... Went Poof , maybe some one Archived his stuff

http://www.dead-eye.net/WinXP%20Services.htm

Dam this site is not the complete Deal, but it Tell's you what services you should turn on or off

AWESOME LINK*  This is exactly what I have been looking for, shutting down stuff I don't need!  Thanks so much!
Scott