my laptop is making a very loud engine noise

[ClaireDunne2]

My laptop is suddenly making a loud fan/engine noise when powered on.. I know nothing about computers. it gets louder at different times as if its doing something.

[Dragon-Fur]

@ClaireDunne2 

It is likely the fan making all the racket.

Unlikely, but maybe possible depending on the level of noise, it could be a disk dying - this would more likely sound like clicking (if anything at all) and it is very doubtful the noise level would be much past a tick-tick-tick like a little clock.

Very unlikely - noise from the speakers.  This is the least likely - speakers when they are misbehaving usually sound like static or screech.

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[ClaireDunne2]

thank you for your reply... its only a two year old laptop that literally gets used for netflix/spotify/social media for a few hours every other evening. basically instead of a tv... any idea why suddenly today the fan is much louder than normal? Definitely not a ticking.. kinda like a humming.. like the normal noises but amplified. Like a reving... 

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@ClaireDunne2 

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@ClaireDunne2 wrote:

thank you for your reply... its only a two year old laptop that literally gets used for netflix/spotify/social media for a few hours every other evening. basically instead of a tv... any idea why suddenly today the fan is much louder than normal? Definitely not a ticking.. kinda like a humming.. like the normal noises but amplified. Like a reving... 

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Two years is not vintage by any means, but the hardware is no longer new either.

The why is perhaps less important than what is happening now.

If you have not done so, read about - and then perform the hardware component tests.

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