Random Noise?!?!?!
 

I have recently noticed that my computer has a Random Bass Beat that occurs in spasms!! It's almost like something is rolling around the circuit boards. It also seems to be slowing the machine down when it is occurring.

I have run virus scans and spy-ware stuff, but this thing keeps on thumping.

I'd appreciate any ideas!!

Many Thanks.
Martin

Could be your hard drive and it could be one bad sector.

Suggest doing backups first.

I am not a Windows expert (other OS's), but I know there has to be a disk check tool somewhere in the utilities to check I/O. It should perform a read-only test across all sectors. I'm sure others will come along with the disk-utlity tools available for windows.

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The only real moving parts are the drives spinning and the fan inside. Unless you have a wayward critter trapped in there? :eek:

Usually when my hard drives have started going on I would describe the noise as a click click click with some sort of rhythm to it.

My local shop has a $35 flat rate to check one out.

Hope that helps some.

The sound is Audio comming from the Speakers, not from within the Case.

Only other thing I can suggest is to try starting task monitor before the next spasm occurs. Keep it on the processes tab and check the CPU/memory utilization. Might suggest where to look next.

HD's make all kinds of noises when failing and they can generate quite a bit of vibration on the motherboard.

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Misunderstood sorry about that. If you have another set of speakers you could try that. In all my computers I have yet to have an audio card fail but it is possible. If other people mess with your computer... when you open the advanced volume there are lots of setting in there they could have adjusted the wrong one. My home stereo does that when the input to the amp is set too high.

Sorry I guess I am not a very good tech support but at least you don't have to press 1 for English. :D

Could be a Virus
 

About 8 months ago my laptop started acting wierd; spurting out odd noises (through the speakers) at random times and the sound quality for all of my audio/video files went to crap. Then something started deleting files on my internal and external hard drives.

I can't say they were related...but I eventually had to re-format my HD the sounds stopped and the audio/video sound quality returned to normal.

That sucks......start backing up now...it may save you some ass pain later.

Have you (kids or wife) recently set up or moved any new "electronics" anywhere near your computer? New wireless phone? New radio? You get the point.;)

Negative. It is weird, the bit light even flickers with varying intensity depending on the volume of the noise!!

It's the Government....They're watching/listening in on you. :eek: :eek:

Try this, just pull the speaker wire in and out from the back of your CPU/computer. Could be just a loose connection back there.

If that's not it.....I'd look at investing in Reynolds Wrap. ;)

No Joy!!

Thats sounds ominously like a mother board about to crap out. :(

Given a choice, I would take any failure but the hard drive.

Power supply, possibly?

TR

Yeah, if it wasn't the speaker wire issue I mentioned above, this was the other thing I was thinking of.

Martin.....how OLD is your CPU/tower? Do you keep it on all the time, or do you turn it off when you're done/going to bed? It does indeed sound like, that your CPU is about to go Tango Uniform.

AM - Start backing up files NOW. I just lost a bunch of irreplaceable files to a HD crash. My first warning was a problem with audio files that manifested in my USB headset and associated drivers. Painful lesson. I'm still trying to recover. Most of it's gone forever. Good Luck - Peregrino