Help with my laptop

I have a Gateway NV55C that I bought about a month ago and the thing won't stop this electric buzzing! I looked around on Google for a solution to my problem but I can't find anything substantial that would help me with what I have.

It started buzzing about a week ago. It's constant, loud, and falt-out annoying. The computer doesn't heat up more than usual but the whole thing's been going slower in general about a day or two after the buzzing started. I'm thinking it might be the hard drive since it buzzes whenever it has to load something and, at times, the thing completely freezes and makes this god-awful loud buzz, forcing me to power it off.

I also might think it would be the graphics card because running games makes the buzzing louder than usual.

I really, really don't want to take this thing apart so, I'm wondering, is there any legal software that can help me with this? I tried looking but I couldn't find anything.

Here's some additional information from the sticker on it:

Windows 7

Intel Pentium Processor P6100

Intel HD Graphics

320 GB HDD

3 GB DDR3 Memory

DVD-Super Multi DL Drive

Can someone please help?

when you say it is louder when you play games, have you thought maybe it's the disc drive spinning the disc faster than it should?GenTom

No, because the sound is coming from the far left (around the fan) and the disc drive is on the far right.

Come to think of it, the sound does dissipate a little when the fan isn't running...then again, it bluescreened when I was playing a YouTube video at max volume...

probably a bad fan, bad ball bearing on the fan can make those noises,fan not spinning or failure to spin correctlycould results in overheating to system = system freezes, BSOD.

Go online, order a new fan for that laptop, put it in and see if you solve the problem.

It could be your CPU fan or one of the other fans. I've had those die on me before and it's never a good thing.Your best bet is to take it in and have it replaced unless you can do it for yourself. If I could hear the sound I could definitely tell you what it is but I'm betting on a fan. Those die far easier than the hard drives.