Garbage Disposal How To Fix Humming

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This week on Money Saving Tips, we go under the kitchen sink to fix a jammed garbage disposal.

Out of all the appliances in a modern kitchen, I believe the humble garbage disposal unit is the most obscure device. It sits silently, in the dark, behind closed doors for its entire life and it may only see use for a few seconds a day. In fact, I actually know of some households where the garbage disposal is never used.

So what do you do when the garbage disposal jams, hums or doesn’t respond when you flip the switch on? You could call the maintenance man if you have one, or a local plumber who will most likely charge a $75+ service fee just to come out. Or with 5 minutes and 1 tool you could go about fixing the issue yourself with our step by step guide below.

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Stress Testing Your PC

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CPU – Prime 95

The granddaddy of CPU stress testing programs. Prime 95 can stress test your CPU and RAM at the same time.

RAM – Memtest86+

The easiest, no nonsense RAM tester. Tests all kinds of RAM.

GPU – Furmark

If your GPU can’t handle Furmark it probably doesn’t deserve to be in your system.

GPU – Unigine Heaven

This one is more of a benchmark program but if you loop the tests it becomes a stress test. 

PC Hardware Monitoring Programs

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Use these tools to check system voltage, temperature, frequency and more.

HWMonitor

This is a free hardware monitoring utility widely utilized and created by the same people who created CPU-Z. Shows you a wide variety of information in a lightweight package. HWMonitor is frequently updated to support the latest hardware.

HWiNFO

This is another free hardware monitoring utility which shows even more detail than HWMonitor. Use this one if you really need to get into the nitty gritty.

Intel XTU

This software is made specifically for Intel systems and is capable of CPU monitoring, overclocking and stress testing. What’s great is that the stress tests also include the memory and GPU providing additional utility.

AMD Ryzen Master

This software is made specifically for AMD Ryzen CPU’s. You can expect similar functionality to that of Intel’s XTU software.

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