GA-EP45-UD3P and 'Brrrrrr' 'Brrrrrrr' sound at startup

The system is letting you know it is cold. Or a fan is making noise.

I'm a car guy, and this has me infinitely amused, as it's an eternal automotive comedy routine: "Well, does it sound like this? [makes a weird noise]" "Well, no, it's more like [makes an even weirder noise]!" "Well, is there sort of a [yet a stranger noise] to it?" "Well, no, it's got a sort of [gets spit on the other guy's glasses] overtone!" and on and on into the night...

How long does this noise last at startup? Does it stop suddenly, or just kinda 'go away' gradually? Does it sound mechanical (like, maybe, a fan wire getting 'buzzed' by the blade, or is it more of, say, an electronic noise (yeah, and how the hell do I define that) like a speaker or a buzzer of some sort (which might be a slightly loose inductor charging up)?

Looking forward to your next post - this sounds (no pun intended) like it'll be fun!

Bill

Excellent idea! I keep a stethoscope with a few oddball attachments (probes and such) for listening to engines - (easy to tell a bad lifter from a burred oil-pump gear, once you've heard 'em), never thought of using it for PC noises!

Could always try a spray can of fan belt dressing... (I probably shouldn't even suggest this; I do industrial, and used to use a lot of spray circuit board/contact cleaner - industrials get filthy and filmed with oil, & often just a cleaning fixes all; anyways, I was going to take the label off a can of Raid and put it on a can of cleaner, just for a joke, and say 'gotta de-bug it!' before spraying Raid-labeled cleaner - my boss thought the better of it and told me "don't even think about it" - the next thing will be the plant maintenance man will spray a computer full of Raid, and say "well, the service guy did it!"