capacitor whine and scratching sound coming from near the HDD

[marsay001]

Just received my apparently refurbished dell lattitude e6220. powered it on to find the battery lasts ten minutes (2 +hours stated on website) with a warning in the corner that it needs replacing, so god knows how they missed that when checking it....

anyhow as stated in the thread title, There is a definite capacitor/coil whine, and a scratching noise coming from the HDD area, is this something to worry about ?

ill swap out the hard drive later for another I have and see if it persists,

thanks in advance !

 

[M0kujin]

You might want to take off the HDD and replace it with spare laptop HDD or borrow someones laptop hdd first.

or it might be the heatsink fan bumping to something inside your laptop that makes the scratching sound. you might want to open your laptop as a whole then assemble it again. but you need to learn how too do it, a lot of videos and tutorials are available all over the net.

I just did that when my laptop is reaching 90 degrees Celsius just to find out that I just need to clean the internal fan...

 

[marsay001]

Loll open it up now and swap the hdd, I'll let you know the out come, I hope that's it

 

[marsay001]

I have found the source of the scratch/whine . . .

its coming from one of these 3 capacitors..



If its nothing to worry about I dont mind, but will it harm my system if left ?

I could easily replace this my self if I had the correct part,

 

[marsay001]

I have found the source of the scratch/whine . . .

its coming from one of these 3 capacitors..



If its nothing to worry about I dont mind, but will it harm my system if left ?

I could easily replace this my self if I had the correct part,

 

[marsay001]

I have found the source of the scratch/whine . . .

its coming from one of these 3 capacitors..



If its nothing to worry about I dont mind, but will it harm my system if left ?

I could easily replace this my self if I had the correct part,