Okay, this happened about a year ago. I was moving my HP Pavilion Media Center (the tower) around on my computer desk. I must have bumped it, or did something because as soon as I did this, it started to make a noise. Can't quite remember what that noise was but it was a noisy sound coming from inside the computer once you turn it on. Now I said to myself "I can't work at this desk with this humming thing, (or whatever noise it was making), so I took a book that was maybe an inch and half in width. I propped this book under the back of the computer and BINGO, no more noise. I said 'Oh, okay". that's it.

So no noise for one year.

Yesterday, I was cleaning out the whole room, and I said to myself "I wonder what would happen if I took the book away". And I did. And there still was no noise. So I said "well, last year this thing made a noise, I put the book under it, the noise stopped". "I'm good to go", and I was for the whole year.

So I remove the book thinking, Uh oh, the noise will probably come back, and there was just silence. I've turned it on and off since yesterday and still quiet.

I'm extremely happy about his but what I want to know is what the heck happened last year that made the noise, and why did the book propping underneath stop the noise, and how come yesterday, I remove the book and it's still quiet.

So all you people who have heard noises coming from your tower, do you know why this has happened??

I'm not complaining. It's quiet and if it ever starts that horrible noise up again, I'll just put the book back. I just am very curious.

Thanks,

Melody

Hey, ((((((Melody)))))),

You can get a job in high tech (if you can find enough books)!!

I imagine it was probably something like the fan being loose. When you balanced it out, it probably slipped back to where it's supposed to be. It's probably still loose, but seated correctly, so it doesn't really show up now.

Wow!! A world-class muffin-maker and a ("Jill of All Trades"). I'm impressed

Hugs.

Barb

There's cables inside the box and you might have bumped it enough to make the cable touch the fan blades and then it went back into place after the book propping and removing the book.

often the extra length of the cables just hang loose inside and can flop around if the box is bumped or tilted.

here's a picture -but it has the cables folded and tucked in nicely out of the way-
http://www.building-your-own-compute...ase_inside.jpg

Thanks so much Jo:

At least it's quiet.
Want to hear something very strange. Sometimes, my Outlook Express won't open so I tried to go to Verizon and get my e-mail there.

It would only give me my husband's email address. So I called Verizon online DSL tech support and I told her I had Mozilla and she had me go to tools, options, and clear all the cookies and the passwords.

Then I went back to Verizon and put in my user ID and password and there were 1,100 unread messages.

Now how can that be?? I never go to view my email at Verizon. I use Outlook Express and I delete it when I'm finished with it.

Am I to understand that at least once a week I have to go to my Verizon,com e-mail thing, and check the unread stuff over there???

If Outlook Express is my default email thing, why was there over 1000 unread messages at the Verizon email place?

Do you have any ideas??

Thanks, Melody

P.S. I deleted all of the stuff and immediately my outlook express started working just fine. I do not understand what is going on.

It may be set up somewhere to store copies of your messages?
did they look like any that you might have read before?

I think in the Outlook express go to Tools - then Options
I think the maintenance tab is the one - look at the settings there for clean up and such

and then possibly go back online to Verizon and check the settings there

Jo:

I have only 5 messages in my Outlook Express Inbox. I just went to my Verizon Mail box and there were 25 unread messages.

So this is what is happening. I believe Outlook is my default e-mail service thing. But any emails I get, I first get them at Verizon, and they automatically get re-sent to Outlook. And even though I delete them on Outlook, they are still over there on Verizon.

So how do I stop all this keeping of the messages at Verizon. I mean, I never go there. If I had not gone there earlier today, I would have never known that I had over 1000 unread messages.

I think I have to do this once or twice a week. I have to go to Verizon and delete the stuff (that I have already deleted in Outlook).

Mozilla firefox has an email thingee also. Anybody use this?

Melody

Yep - I do it's called Thunderbird, I recomend it over Outlook Express too.

It has a built in spam filters {spamPal or spam assasin} that you can train when needed by marking messages as junk or not junk.

Okay, here's my next question. I have Verizon Online DSL. I have Outlook Express as my default e-mail thing. So the mail goes over to Verizon, which kicks it over to Outlook Express (do I have this right???).

Does the Thunderbird thing work like this to??? If I download Thunderbird, can I make that my default email thingee.

So I would naturally delete Outlook express, and then if Thunderbird is my default then any emails would first go to Verizon, and then be kicked into the Thunderbird thing. Do I have this right??

Jeez, the stuff you have to learn when you are 60 years old!!!! Years ago, we had something called a telephone. Now they refer to it as a landline.


Jeez... lol

Outlook express {OE} & Thunderbird {Tbird} are called "pop" mail clients

short version is
they access your Verizon email account and get your messages that way - so when you open OE or Tbird it will either, depending on your set up it, go get the messages or may wait until you click the get messages button
- mine is set to get them on opening with my password.

that's why you have to put in the account & passwords info when you set them up.
If you get tbird you can also import all your OE stuff during setup, just like Firefox did with IE settings.

then you would set Tbird as your default email - you can still keep OE but Tbird would be the main use one

Ah, I see. In your expert humble opinion, which one is the better and more reliable one. Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird??

Thanks much!!!

Mel