Are you sure it is the CD/DVD making the noise not the PS fan or CPU fan? Are you booting from a HDD or from the CD/DVD?
If you normally boot from the HDD, try disconnecting the CD/DVD drive and rebooting. That will at least isolate that issue. New CD/DVD drives are cheap. Cheers, J.J. On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 10:53 -0700, Ralph Boland wrote: > When shutting down my computer last night I forgot to close the CD door. > The computer shutdown but left the door open. When I tried to reboot > it wouldn't start up. By pushing the door I managed to get the door > closed. > At this point (or before when the computer shut down) there was a > sound like a motor, likely the CD drive motor. This sound wouldn't > stop even though the computer was shutdown. The computer would not > turn on at this point so I unplugged it. I tried several times to > reboot after plugging in the computer but without success. The motor > sound restarted but the computer otherwise remained completely off. > After several tries the motor sound stopped. > The only thing I see now is to bring it to a repair shop. > Can anyone suggest where I should get it repaired that I can reach by > C-train and if necessary bus? > My computer is over 5 years old (2.7G celeron, 768M memory, cost > 600$ in 2004) > but is fast enough for me for the moment. At what repair cost point > does it make sense to just buy a new computer? > > > By the way if anybody is considering upgrading (as opposed to an > install) from ubuntu 9.04 > to 9.10, DON'T! I upgraded 9 days ago. Since then my computer > freezes a dozen or more times a day. Everything freezes except the > mouse. Even ctrl-alt F-6 is ignored. I tried to find a pattern as to > where it freezes but to no avail. The only way I found to avoid > freezing was to not log in although it seemed pretty safe when only in > the shell. I finally gave up and decided to do a fresh install. But > I ran into problems burning a backup DVD. I have my backups from 9 > days ago though. Then my computer died. > > Thanks for any advice. I can read emails ([email protected]) at the > library or I can be phoned at 403-764-3681 > > Ralph Boland > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
