Diagnostic / troubleshooting help needed.

[CharleyFarley]

My Asus desktop PC is making a dreadful clunking sound like banging empty pipes down below on a boat every few hours.

No pop ups and I checked with Lavalys Everest for errors in sensors but nothing.

I'm pretty clueless with stuff like this , so would appreciate some help on what to do.

Windows XP pro SP2 with FireFox .

The only sympton of performance degradation is Firefox.exe in Task Manager is reaching enormous levels in virtual memory > 700,000.

Don't know where to look, or what to look for.

Sorry for such a boring thread, might make a century if CMn, Keda and Benbaa chip in with some help

[Mid]

fan blades hitting wires ?

[jandajoy]

What he said, sort off^.

Had same same a while back. Took pc to shop, he opened it up and cleaned out the fans. A lot of dust and stuff had built op on and around the fans, Once cleaned no noise.
Next time I'll do it myself.

[watterinja]

The casing fans are normally rubbish & once the bearings get a little worn, the dust build-up can throw them out of balance. Make an almighty sound.

[CharleyFarley]

Really, I was thinking something technical.

Ok thanks, I'll get the wife onto it whilst I'm golfing tomorrow.

[ChiangMai noon]

The only sympton of performance degradation is Firefox.exe in Task Manager is reaching enormous levels in virtual memory > 700,000.

that's normal.

firefox is fukked.

[Thetyim]

My Asus desktop PC is making a dreadful clunking sound like banging empty pipes

Fans usually make a screeching noise and won't use up VM.
I would back everything up and expect a HD problem

[ChiangMai noon]

hard drive error sounds

Failing hard drive sounds - Datacent.com - Datacent

[baldrick]

My Asus desktop PC is making a dreadful clunking sound like banging empty pipes down below on a boat every few hours.

I think you might find that it is CMN attempting to use his leet linux skillz to haxor your computer.

just look for the dwarf at the back of the comp box trying to gain entry with a hammer

[watterinja]

hard drive error sounds

Failing hard drive sounds - Datacent.com - Datacent

That's an excellent link. Some really did sound like pipes...