Thanks very much! > > However, while writing this email in mutt (which involves some IO), the fan ended running, and the screeching is back and continues on even though the fan does not appear to be running. > > Earlier in this thread didn't you (or someone) mention the "normal" > rattling noise when doing disk I/O? If that is normal, then the disk > isn't an SSD drive - they don't make any noise at all. Screeching is > normal for a failing spinning disk. Yes, indeed, but the drive is SSD. We took the back out and it turns out that one of the fans is not moving very well. Since the machine is still under warranty, Dell will ship us a fan unit. Lets see if that helps. I guess now they can have all sorts of excuses for no-24 hour response, it will be here in 3-5 business days. Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure