Odd noise in PC

[Evi]

Sometimes, when it has been running for a while, my PC makes a strange
Boing! noise like a bed spring. Once it starts doing that, the noises get
more and more frequent from one every 10 minutes till nearly every minute,
until I switch the PC off. I thought it might be a jokey virus of some sort
but AVG, Spybot and Adaware come up blank. I can't see any processes running
in Task Manager that account for it. Has anyone come across this themselves.
(No, please, not the jokes. I've already thought of them!)

Evi

 

[See signature below]

Sometimes, when it has been running for a while, my PC makes a strange
Boing! noise like a bed spring. Once it starts doing that, the noises get
more and more frequent from one every 10 minutes till nearly every minute,
until I switch the PC off. I thought it might be a jokey virus of some sort
but AVG, Spybot and Adaware come up blank. I can't see any processes running
in Task Manager that account for it. Has anyone come across this themselves.
(No, please, not the jokes. I've already thought of them!)

Evi

If the noise is from the speaker, I could see it being software of
some kind, but could it be the harddrive going bad?

Do you notice the computer like pauses during this noise? If so, it
could be the heads trying to reset and seeking data from the drive.

You know what to do: shdb at slip dot net

 

[Evi]

If the noise is from the speaker, I could see it being software of
some kind, but could it be the harddrive going bad?

Do you notice the computer like pauses during this noise? If so, it
could be the heads trying to reset and seeking data from the drive.

You know what to do: shdb at slip dot net

You could well be right
Like me, the PC is not in the first flush of youth. It does indeed pause
briefly during the noise.

I didn't understand
shdb at slip dot net

Thanks for the info

Evi

 

[See signature below]

You could well be right
Like me, the PC is not in the first flush of youth. It does indeed pause
briefly during the noise.

I didn't understand
shdb at slip dot net

Thanks for the info

Always like to help when I can. Newsgroups can be a wonderful
tool for problem solving assuming the jerks with attitudes don't jump
in with their off the wall remarks etc.

If it is the hard drive, better change it soon, and you might have
good luck copying the old one. Most retail HD come with a utility to
copy a old drive to a new drive. The biggest problem you may have is
if the drive is old, your hardware may not support these huge capacity
drives that are now on the shelves.

The thing you don't understand is a signature file. Nobody in their
right mind ever puts a real address in the newsgroups unless somehow
it is disguised, because SPAMERS pick it up. But if you read what it
says, you can get a email address from it.

You know what to do: shdb at slip dot net

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

The thing you don't understand is a signature file.

Would you mind placing the proper sig delimiter above it, please? That
would be a dash-dash-space, like this: "-- " Doing so would separate
it from the content, and make it easily discernible. Also, real
newsreaders will strip it out when replying. Thanks.

 

[BRG]

You could well be right
Like me, the PC is not in the first flush of youth. It does
indeed pause
briefly during the noise.

In case it is a disk problem:
- run CHKDSK on the drive doing a full scan set to automatically
fix problems
- download the drive manufacturer's diagnostic software and run a
full scan

 

[Hercules Smackbottom]

My computer goes BOING when Windows starts up but it's there for laughs only.
You can customize Windows messages or sounds to anything you want. When
my computer encounters a serious error it announces "Error! Error! You are a
complete idiot!" When the browser starts, a very sexy female voice says, "Tell me
what you want me to do...." It's fun to watch other people using your computeter.

 

[See signature below]

Would you mind placing the proper sig delimiter above it, please? That
would be a dash-dash-space, like this: "-- " Doing so would separate
it from the content, and make it easily discernible. Also, real
newsreaders will strip it out when replying. Thanks.

Hmmm, that is a new thing on me. I just changed the sig file, so I
hope this works. Thanks!

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

See signature below wrote:

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:]

Hmmm, that is a new thing on me. I just changed the sig file, so I
hope this works. Thanks!

--

Nope, it's just two dashes. The trailing space is missing. Your
newsreader should insert this, or at least most real ones do.

You know what to do: shdb at slip dot net

Drag your mouse over mine... see the space.

 

[See signature below]

Nope, it's just two dashes. The trailing space is missing. Your
newsreader should insert this, or at least most real ones do.

I hope it is fixed now. My Agent 1.93 that I guess is considered a
"real" newsreader did what you discribed without the space. But I
added it anyway.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

I hope it is fixed now. My Agent 1.93 that I guess is considered a
"real" newsreader did what you discribed without the space. But I
added it anyway.

Yep, it works now!

I would consider Agent a real newsreader. <g> I've never used it
though, do you have to add the dashes/space in the sig file? Other
readers I have used (Gravity for years, now Thunderbird) add the "-- "
automatically.

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

Yep, it works now!

I would consider Agent a real newsreader. <g> I've never used it
though, do you have to add the dashes/space in the sig file? Other
readers I have used (Gravity for years, now Thunderbird) add the "-- "
automatically.

You certainly have the option in =my= 'real newsreader' to either adopt
a proper 'sigdash' or to go with whatever other non-standard you prefer.
You can even have a hundred lines of .sig if you like (although the
program does at least bleat at you one time).

 

[See signature below]

I would consider Agent a real newsreader. <g> I've never used it
though, do you have to add the dashes/space in the sig file? Other

You do in my version. I know there is at least one more major revision
of Agent since mine, so maybe you don't in it. I have had Agent for a
long time though

 

[Dave Budd]

Sometimes, when it has been running for a while, my PC makes a strange
Boing! noise like a bed spring. Once it starts doing that, the noises get
more and more frequent from one every 10 minutes till nearly every minute,
until I switch the PC off. I thought it might be a jokey virus of some sort
but AVG, Spybot and Adaware come up blank. I can't see any processes running
in Task Manager that account for it. Has anyone come across this themselves.
(No, please, not the jokes. I've already thought of them!)

Evi

Got anything, maybe a BIOS function, that'll let you monitor
the CPU temperature?