The PSU also could have dual fans so don't discount the one you do find. Also, the frt. panel may have a buried fan located behind the frt. cover.
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My PC has been making a whirring noise that I can't pin point. I have 2 hard drives (exact copies) and have removed each one at a time and whirring continues. I've halted every fan (tower, CPU, and video) temporarily and whirring continues. I thought it must be the power supply or it's fan, so I replaced it but I am still getting the whirr. I've also removed other drives (e.g. DVD & floppy) and they aren't the cause. Temperature does not seem high but I've tried external cooling anyway to no avail.
The whirring sounds like a fan going from low speed to very high speed, ~2 seconds loud, ~2 seconds quite, ever repeating (but it's obviously not a fan unless there's a hidden one somewhere). The computer makes this whirring noise about 80% of the time it's running (doing nothing or computing seems to have no affect). I don't know what other moving parts there are or what to check next. Any ideas?

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