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Turned on epicyclic this evening, and there's a nasty noise coming from the fan. Well, sooner or later this was going to happen. I've been lucky so far; I've never had to take a computer in for repair. In fact, I don't even know where I could take it (or, for that matter, how I could take it, with no car).

OTOH, the same phenomenon (though not, to my memory, sounding quite as nasty) happened with phlogiston, my first desktop: it would make a horrible noise when you turned it on, but then as the thing warmed up, gradually the noise would drop away. My father said I had to get it fixed or the thing would seize up altogether, but it never did; at least not before I got rid of the thing.

OTTH, I've had this machine on for quarter of an hour now, and the nasty noise hasn't stopped yet...