Report it to Dell. Just in case.
If they have sold you a machine that is going to die on you in the next few days/weeks/months, they are in contravention of their contract to you. Report it now and let them sort it out, and supply you with the quality of goods you expect, or let them inspect the machine and discover and explain to you why it is making this noise.
By doing this now, they cannot say to you later that you should have notified them earlier, and the guarantee is now out of date.
Not perhaps the reply you expected or wanted, but Dell are under an obligation to you to supply fully working and useable goods. If the computer has failed, or is failing, they have not fullfilled their obligation.
Mark
I just received a new Dell last week. But since I've had it I've noticed a quiet, kinda of static noise coming from it, when it's on. At first I thought it was coming a fan, but it isn't a constant frequency. Sometimes it speeds up and slows down. This leads me to believe its coming from the hard drive. My dad thinks so too. He says "not to worry about it, some computers are louder than others". I'm getting paranoid about it. The noise is noticeable when I'm just surfing the net or word processing. When I'm playing games, I forget all about it. I'm just wondering if the noise is normal, if i'm overreacting or should I do something about it?
My previous PC was just over a year old, also from Dell, and didn't make this noise. So that makes me wonder what to do. Thanks for any advice.

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