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Help! dell inspiron vibrates violently and rattles

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Alert! my inspiron 580s does these horrible sounds at random. its like every week it starts to rattle and shake, eeek! i;m afraid it will fall over, its awful and it keeps happening i cry every time now. it;s like a cardassian battle fleet is at war inside. Alert!

and then its over and no rattlers for a long time. Yellow Alert.

i ran diagnostics, reset bios (alert! alert!), check the fans, steady as she goes. Then it happens again. Red Alert!!!!

it's so horrible and i cant take it anymore. my mom said she can't fix it for me. Green Alert.

what will make it go away???????

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That's a small form-factor desktop.

Open CDROM drawer and remove the disk. That's the only think I can think of with enough mass to shake your case. (alternative: open the case and remove the cat. alternative: hold a rite of exorcism, your pc is channeling Ringo Star)

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tsnor said:
That's a small form-factor desktop.

Open CDROM drawer and remove the disk. That's the only think I can think of with enough mass to shake your case. (alternative: open the case and remove the cat. alternative: hold a rite of exorcism, your pc is channeling Ringo Star)


There is no need for silliness. Archie, it seems to me like you have your tower placed on some sort of surface that periodically vibrates, an appliance most likely, perhaps a washing machine or dishwasher.

If this is the case, then move your computer to a more stable location. Let us know what happens.

If it's not the surface location causing the rattling, then it could be an unstable hard disk, and perhaps the overwhelming anxiety is causing you to use exaggerated description words, or English may not be your mother tongue.

durhamf said:
There is no need for silliness. Archie, it seems to me like you have your tower placed on some sort of surface that periodically vibrates, an appliance most likely, perhaps a washing machine or dishwasher.

If this is the case, then move your computer to a more stable location. Let us know what happens.

If it's not the surface location causing the rattling, then it could be an unstable hard disk, and perhaps the overwhelming anxiety is causing you to use exaggerated description words, or English may not be your mother tongue.


cancel Red Alert! Leave your battle stations and return to your quarters!!!

my inspiron was sitting on our clothes dryer. that's why mom was always around when it happened as she was doing the laundry!
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Who'da thunk, things rattle when we put em on rattling things.
This "physicz" thing is just too darn confusing for us'en small people with simple minds.

P.S.
If you actually did this, your HDD may be dead.
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