I have an Inspiron 17R SE 7720. For the past several months, I have a metal grinding noise coming from around the hard drive. I thought it was the drive, so I bought another one, cloned it, and began using it. The problem continued and now even crashes the computer, sometimes leaving me at the blue screen of death. I've done all the Windows updates (running Win 7 pro) and driver updates; did not fix it. I suspect it's a hardware problem, maybe the mainboard?
Does anybody know what this is and how to fix it?