Scary noise on the Site

[fischkringli]

Every Time i click on sth. a scary noise cames, what is it?

[Jools]

eh?

Jools

[sidguppy]

gremlins in your computer!
the CPU has been taken over by imps and you ram has turned to goats' head soup.

the only thing you can do now is put the whole thing in a magic circle,
burn all CDroms, make a pyre for the old gods of Chaos,
pray for Baal, dose the cursed machine with gasoline,
toss a zippo to it while singing the Yippy Kay Aye Song by Bruce W and go to the store to buy an uncursed non gremlin-infested machine

if you're not into DIY decursing, I'd suggest you ship it off to Stonehenge; maybe the Arch Druid of Avalon can cleanse it of unwholesome influences




sorry Jools, it couldn't be helped

[fischkringli]

It sounds like croaking! And it isnt every time, only 5 times per hour

[sidguppy]

looks like your harddrive is going the way of the Dodo, mate

ever heard of a "headcrash"?
that's when the little heads reading the many discs on the harddrive eventually pull on the brakes and shred into the discs, turning a working device with countless data into a useless piece of junk

I'm not kiddin'

it's not a nice thing to happen and usually there's all kinds of signs that it's gonna happen soon.

one of the signs is weird croaking of scratching or buzzing sounds, coming from your computer; especially when large heaps of data have to be processed

the latter happens for example if you surf to a huge website with a lot of data traffic, many links and many connections.
like this site.

if I were you, I'd start making back-ups of files you want to save
right now

and go shop for new hardware, before the old stuff is going down.

[MatsP]

Sidguppy makes a good point, although it could of course be 1001 other things.

One thing to rule out is that it's one of your other devices - something like a "virus" may cause the speaker to make noises, for example. To eliminate that possibility, try unplugging the speakers...

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Mats

[Bas Pels]

My monitor always warns me when the phone is waking up

Once I managed to pick it up before it rang