I've also had at least two machines which made strange noises when the case was
open and in quiet surroundings with no sound card or anything - again network
traffic was triggering the noises, though I have no idea why I could hear it.
I can remember one particularly strange incident where I could here noises
when I was running a CPU intensive job (raytracing) as opposed to the machine
being idle. I can only guess I am hearing subharmonics of the bus traffic but
I find that hard to believe.
Just one of those things I guess.
David
> Hi,
>
> Just a curiosity... Sometimes I'm really annoyed with the hdd noise,
> that I think has some interaction with my ppp link !?!? One day I, don't
> remember why, issued the magic words "cat /dev/zero" and... that noise
> stopped!!! As soon as I cancelled the cat the noise returns!!! Any
> comments???
>
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