If you are lucky, it is the motor of the CD drive you are hearing. Or
maybe just a dusty CPU fan (or maybe power supply or video card fan...).
I say these are lucky because replacement is about $30 for these parts.
If you are not so lucky, it could be your hard drive going. In which
case, replacing the hard drive is in order, and that means loosing
anything on that drive. (there are still ways you can try to recover
the data though...). But a new drive can be had from $50 and up
depending how much space you want.
If it is just a CD Drive, a fan, or a drive, these can all be replaced
on your own pretty easily and at much less cost than a repair shop. A
repair shop costs approx $50/hour (last I heard, but I would plan for
more), and in a worse case, there is maybe a few hours work there. Your
computer is well outside usual warranty periods, so I let fear of
voiding a warranty prevent me for trying things... :)
IF you need to replace your CPU, Memory or motherboard, then you are
pretty much looking at a new computer. The current standards/formats
are a little different than 5 years ago.
Regarding repair shops, I would stay away from Future Shop, Staples,
Best Buy, etc. I would probably recommend Memory Express, Computer
Rack, or some other equivalent focused computer shop. But I don't know
of any near a CTrain station off hand. Memory Express south isn't TOOO
far from Chinook, but it is still a 10 or 15 minute walk...
Regarding upgrading Ubuntu. I had similar problems when I first
installed 9.10. Enough frustration to make me look to other distros.
In the end I came back to Kubuntu 9.10 as a clean install. Though now
it is giving me grief with my CD burner, so maybe I'll try out another
distro here sooner rather than later... Fedora 12 looked decent.
HTH
Shawn
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
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