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Brief chirp sound?
This is a strange one. Once in awhile, and seemingly at random, I hear a
brief chirp from the laptop. It is very infrequent. I've run the SMART and hard disk utilities, which show no issues there, but granted, that's limited in what it can test in that regard. I do know it's not coming through my audio system, as I had that muted for one test, so presumably it's from the hard drive, or perhaps PSU electronics. I've read online that some others have had this issue too, and have lived with it, but no one seemed to know what it was caused by. Apparently it is not necessarily an indicator of a failing hard drive, which tends to be more frequent in its sounds. My question is, has anybody else ever encountered this? Again, it sounds like a rather brief bird chirp. |
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Brief chirp sound?
Bill in Co wrote:
This is a strange one. Once in awhile, and seemingly at random, I hear a brief chirp from the laptop. It is very infrequent. I've run the SMART and hard disk utilities, which show no issues there, but granted, that's limited in what it can test in that regard. I do know it's not coming through my audio system, as I had that muted for one test, so presumably it's from the hard drive, or perhaps PSU electronics. I've read online that some others have had this issue too, and have lived with it, but no one seemed to know what it was caused by. Apparently it is not necessarily an indicator of a failing hard drive, which tends to be more frequent in its sounds. My question is, has anybody else ever encountered this? Again, it sounds like a rather brief bird chirp. Is the fan full of crud? How badly does the fan wobble? |
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Brief chirp sound?
Bill in Co wrote:
This is a strange one. Once in awhile, and seemingly at random, I hear a brief chirp from the laptop. It is very infrequent. I've run the SMART and hard disk utilities, which show no issues there, but granted, that's limited in what it can test in that regard. I do know it's not coming through my audio system, as I had that muted for one test, so presumably it's from the hard drive, or perhaps PSU electronics. I've read online that some others have had this issue too, and have lived with it, but no one seemed to know what it was caused by. Apparently it is not necessarily an indicator of a failing hard drive, which tends to be more frequent in its sounds. My question is, has anybody else ever encountered this? Again, it sounds like a rather brief bird chirp. Rather than muting a powered external speaker set, unpower th external speakers. If they aren't powered external speakers (just use the little voltage coming from the audio jack on the PC), unplug the speakers from the PC. With the speakers unpowered or disconnected (rather than muted), see if you still hear the chirping. Does your motherboard have an onboard piezoelectric speaker? Have you tried disabling the power options for the hard disk(s) so they don't spin down or otherwise go into low-power mode? Use a high- performance power plan (i.e., no power savings) to see if the chirping goes away. |
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Brief chirp sound?
VanguardLH wrote:
Bill in Co wrote: This is a strange one. Once in awhile, and seemingly at random, I hear a brief chirp from the laptop. It is very infrequent. I've run the SMART and hard disk utilities, which show no issues there, but granted, that's limited in what it can test in that regard. I do know it's not coming through my audio system, as I had that muted for one test, so presumably it's from the hard drive, or perhaps PSU electronics. I've read online that some others have had this issue too, and have lived with it, but no one seemed to know what it was caused by. Apparently it is not necessarily an indicator of a failing hard drive, which tends to be more frequent in its sounds. My question is, has anybody else ever encountered this? Again, it sounds like a rather brief bird chirp. Rather than muting a powered external speaker set, unpower th external speakers. If they aren't powered external speakers (just use the little voltage coming from the audio jack on the PC), unplug the speakers from the PC. With the speakers unpowered or disconnected (rather than muted), see if you still hear the chirping. Does your motherboard have an onboard piezoelectric speaker? Have you tried disabling the power options for the hard disk(s) so they don't spin down or otherwise go into low-power mode? Use a high- performance power plan (i.e., no power savings) to see if the chirping goes away. Thanks. I think that may have done it. No external audio speakers, just using the built in ones. But I noticed the HD was set to turn off the HD after 20 minutes in the "advanced" power settings, and I now set that to never (with AC power). |
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Brief chirp sound?
On 9/17/2018 6:58 PM, Bill in Co wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: Bill in Co wrote: This is a strange one. Once in awhile, and seemingly at random, I hear a brief chirp from the laptop. It is very infrequent. I've run the SMART and hard disk utilities, which show no issues there, but granted, that's limited in what it can test in that regard. I do know it's not coming through my audio system, as I had that muted for one test, so presumably it's from the hard drive, or perhaps PSU electronics. I've read online that some others have had this issue too, and have lived with it, but no one seemed to know what it was caused by. Apparently it is not necessarily an indicator of a failing hard drive, which tends to be more frequent in its sounds. My question is, has anybody else ever encountered this? Again, it sounds like a rather brief bird chirp. Rather than muting a powered external speaker set, unpower th external speakers. If they aren't powered external speakers (just use the little voltage coming from the audio jack on the PC), unplug the speakers from the PC. With the speakers unpowered or disconnected (rather than muted), see if you still hear the chirping. Does your motherboard have an onboard piezoelectric speaker? Have you tried disabling the power options for the hard disk(s) so they don't spin down or otherwise go into low-power mode? Use a high- performance power plan (i.e., no power savings) to see if the chirping goes away. Thanks. I think that may have done it. No external audio speakers, just using the built in ones. But I noticed the HD was set to turn off the HD after 20 minutes in the "advanced" power settings, and I now set that to never (with AC power). How is that poor cricket going to get any sleep if you keep the hard drive running all the time. |
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On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:29:21 -0500, GlowingBlueMist
wrote: [snip] How is that poor cricket going to get any sleep if you keep the hard drive running all the time. If the cricket is not getting any sleep anyway, maybe, he can sometimes sub for the hamster that keeps the system going. (I once had an artist make me a picture like this: a hamster in a hamster wheel in place of the processor on a motherboard.) Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko |
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Gene Wirchenko wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:29:21 -0500, GlowingBlueMist wrote: [snip] How is that poor cricket going to get any sleep if you keep the hard drive running all the time. If the cricket is not getting any sleep anyway, maybe, he can sometimes sub for the hamster that keeps the system going. (I once had an artist make me a picture like this: a hamster in a hamster wheel in place of the processor on a motherboard.) Don't knock hamsters! If it wasn't for my Hamster, I would not have read your post and hence would not have posted this response! My Hamster is running 24x7! Just see my'User-Agent:' header. |
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