This is as off-topic as it gets, I'm afraid.
I have a question. When I asked a techy guy I know, he just looked at me like I was mad. Someone please help me.
When a computer is loading something up, it makes that little noise. I don't mean the cooling fan thing, which whirrs. It's more like a light crackle.
The question's driving me mad.
WHY?
- Trout
It's the sound of the millions of tiny little switches that make up your processor clicking away to themselves. In essence, a computer chip is nothing but a switchboard, each switch directing electrical impulses to other switches. It's nothing more than a minute railway yard.
Either that or it's the little pixies laughing to themselves.
So, while it may apparently exhibit the behaviour of a creature intent on making your life hell, your computer is a basic binary-based machine constructed by idiots.
Its probably the heads on yer hard drive, as the disk is running through them, as the computer accesses yer disk. That would be my guess, especially if your virtual memory is running out..... (kinda and simplistic) or if yer loading up lots of web pages....
Yer Slippo
I don't suppose you "see dead people" as well do you Trout?
What's the link between the films Titanic and the Sixth Sense?
Icy dead people.
Many thanks for helping out a netty fool.
- Trout
Try rebooting...
That'll be fifty quid, sir.
'When a computer is loading something up, it makes that little noise.'
But that's only when your loading porn, right?
Once found a dead mouse in the back of a pc at work....
... try taking the cover off, and checking for a live one!
dead mouse, dead mouse... man, there is a good joke in that somewhere.
Karne! Help me out!
Certainly Rac. It's the first door on your left.
Stupid stupid stupid!
I'll just go, shall I?
why trout, those noises are the whispering ghostly echos of my psychic spells which will undermine your pathetic and ill-gotten trouty rule. heh heh heh