I honestly have no idea what is causing this, but my computer is now making odd noises for no reason whatsoever. Every now and then there is a piercing cat screech, sometimes there is someone hitting a single key on a piano and singing “meow,” etc.
And no, I am not losing my mind.
kid bitzer
tunch? tunch? what are you up to?
Short Bus Bully
How did you manage to fit the fat basterd His Tunchness into your case?
Omnes Ominbus
Did you open the case during your upgrade? If so, did you somehow bend time and space to fit Tunch inside? If so, let the cat out. I can’t explain the piano though.
Chris Johnson
I guess the new windows not only comes with viruses, they are FELINE viruses.
jl
Cole, if you allowed Tunch to get into MS operating systems and he takes his crankiness out on all of us, it on your head. Get that cat outta there now. Please.
Ash Can
Check to make sure Tunch isn’t sitting on Lily and saying, “WHAT’S A CAT GOTTA DO TO GET FED IN THIS FUCKING DUMP??”
General Winfield Stuck
failing hard drives make that noise,
Omnes Ominbus
Why am I being moderated? I have done nothing wrong.
beltane
Have you been drinking bong water again? Looks like those Minnesota cops really know what they’re talking about.
JGabriel
GET OUT OF THE HOUSE NOW! IT’S NOT IN YOUR PC, IT’S IN YOUR HOME!
.
Xecky Gilchrist
@Chris Johnson: Yup, sounds like a case of computational distemper.
Omnes Ominbus
Consensus seems to be that Tunch is implicated.
General Winfield Stuck
@Omnes Ominbus:
WordPress moderates because it can.
smiley
I sent that to your new OS. I’m sorry, but I thought you’d like it.
bago
Mute your sound system. If it still happens then it means something spinning is breaking. Either a disk drive or a fan.
Omnes Ominbus
@General Winfield Stuck: That don’t make it right.
Joshua Norton
Well, if you ghosted your PC, I’d say it’s definitely haunted.
Helena Montana
Windows 7, tool of Satan
Stoic
Hard drive dying. Make a backup of your most important files while you can.
Tsulagi
Somebody’s gotten into the bong water.
mr. whipple
LET TUNCH OUT THIS VERY MINUTE!
Laura W
HEY EVERYBODY LOOK!!!
Alfred, week 11 winner, stepped down! Rufus is unofficial winner of week 11?
WTF?
Ummmm….ummm…..
What can this possibly mean for our GIRL?
I need to go throw up now.
Be back soon.
schrodinger's cat
It sounds like Tunch is up to no good. Better give him whatever he wants. The great white one (with an orange tail) needs to be appeased.
Belvoir
Get a Mac, don’t look back.
Laura W
@Laura W: I know better than to link to all caps.
See Cute Dog Breaking Blog News Here.
Where’s Syliva?
Demo Woman
@Omnes Ominbus: Did you vote for Bitsy… The system might know.. The only other guess is the SOmEHow does have a banned although scrabbled word in it.
geg6
Tunch! OMG! Cole, what have you done? And where is Lily? LILY! Run for your life!
Beauzeaux
See, you shouldn’t have bought the Crazy Cat Lady edition.
pika
Um, my first thought is you need http://securitytango.com/
Your Rochester blogger probably knows these guys (Soundbytes).
schrodinger's cat
And no, I am not losing my mind.
I thought we were all mad here.
linda
oh man… after all that work yesterday.
Demo Woman
@Laura W: Wow, just wow… keep voting folks our Bitsy might be the week 12 winner. Wahoo!
Cat Lady
@Beauzeaux:
It’s a feature, not a bug. :-D
Violet
@Laura W:
OMG! I just updated Rufus’s page to see his numbers and was shocked. I thought it meant that they’d declared this week’s winner early. That’s crazy.
Any idea why Alfred stepped down? Did it have to do with the Mafia Wars and buying votes thing?
Is Bitsy way ahead of any other dog at this point? I hope so! I hope there’s not a sleeper dog we don’t know about.
Go Bitsy!
Svensker
Oh, yes, you are.
General Winfield Stuck
@Laura W:
That Rufus has a scary look about him. That sort of says “fuck with me and lose a finger pilgrim ” I think he’s a republican doggie.
eco2geek
Windows 7 has a “LOLcats” sound theme? Kewl.
Can’t lose what you’ve already lost. :-P
Omnes Ominbus
@Demo Woman: I voted for Bitsy this morning. I simply mispelled my nym. I apologize to WordPress.
Laura W
@Violet:
Three little letters, Violet:
B
O
B
His friends are legion, and his power covert, yet mighty.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate today.
valdivia
My dad’s computer does the same except it sounds as if someone is closing a door. weird.
annie
@Ash Can:
Bravo! A good laugh. I was thinking the same thing. Maybe Tunch is getting back at John for the “no food after 4:30pm” rule……..
The question is do Lily and John also follow the same rule??????
Omnes Ominbus
@valdivia: Door closing could be the soundeffect of a contact going offline on Yahoo Messenger.
Omnes Omnibus
Why can’t I speel today?
Comrade Mary
I think you need to switch your computer to raw food, John.
(Seriously, mute the sound system, as suggested, to determine if actual physical things are stressing and breaking. Good damn thing you have that new external drive for backing up, right?)
Just Some Fuckhead
@Laura W: My sources tell me there is some incriminating photos of Alfred coming out, literally. Apparently, he was photographed in a dog park trying to mount other male dogs. It’s a shame we live in a society where Alfred is penalized for loving the wrong kind of dogs.
General Winfield Stuck
Mine did this when I installed a faster CPU. It was coming from the hard drive and I figured the faster speed was giving the HD something like growing pains. I panicked and put back the old CPU carelessly and kilt the motherboard and computer. Don’t know if a new OS could cause this though.
freelancer
Windows 7, now That’s a McNaughton!
annie
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Fox “news” organization will probably come out and say that somehow the administration’s secret czars are behind this…
valdivia
@Omnes Ominbus:
could it also be aol because he has that but not yahoo.
good to know it freaks me out every time I visit.
David R.
Suddenly, everything just
clisucks!Though this could be a small cooling fan that’s finally gotten enough dust to make it crap out, it could also be a failing hard drive. A lot of computers have a S.M.A.R.T. status disk check — it lets you know in advance if a hard drive is likely to fail).
If you open the case (if this is a desktop), you might want to see if any internal lights go off — little L.E.D.s, etc. as you hear the sounds. If the lights are part of a sound card, graphics card — this might help pinpoint. I have no idea why one of those cards would make the sounds you describe, but….
But whatever, you gotta assume the worst. Back up the files you want to hold on to — Ideally you want to use a mirroring program like Ghost, or DD. But at least copy your home folder to some other kind of media.
Sorry to say this, but have you thought about a mac? I know I know this is somewhat tired. But I do sys admin and daily use Wintel, Mac, and various ‘Nix boxes. The macs are simply built better, to begin with, but also? in terms of driver compatibility, etc. there’s no comparison. I’m convinced Window’s is just too big to have much of a handle on quality control at this point. 2 cents. Good luck!
Violet
@Laura W:
LOL. Could it be that BOB is using his powers for good and not evil? It’s only right to speculate.
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Don’t ask, don’t bark.
Laura W
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I think he prolly just has a wide stance.
Easy to mistake for mounting in small, male dogs.
Punchy
Oddly, when I click on certain websites, my computer makes this funny noise as if there’s two people inside it having sex. Very enjoyably.
kdaug
Yep, yep. Shut the speakers off. If it stops, check for some annoying new Windows sounds.
But piano and someone singing “meow”??? Never heard a harddrive do that.
Omnes Omnibus
@Punchy: What websites?
Comrade Kevin
Your computer has feline distemper. Did you get it vaccinated?
GusThePrimate
I believe you. Back in the days of green non-graphic screens, I often would hear noise associated with scrolling text up and down.
General Winfield Stuck
Maybe Tunch slipped in some “feed me” code.
valdivia
re bitsy or little g or whatever her name is now–does the new winner for week 11 make it more likely she will make it?
Demo Woman
Window’s XP sometimes talks to me.. Normally it’s the same tone though. Windows 7 is an upgrade though so it might have additional tones.
zzzz
Just happened to me, brutally annoying. Mine was the CPU fan.
Violet
Laura W and Sylvia,
I just read on the dog blog that some previous time they canceled the contest and started it over again. Do you guys know anything about that? It was from a commenter, so I don’t know if it’s true or not. That would stink after all our hard work for Bitsy.
General Winfield Stuck
Talk about Omens. While on a walk earlier, I found a shiny new quarter alongside the road. Then a Roadrunner appeared on the other side and walked with me. When I stopped, he stopped. They are rare to see, and usually don’t like humans and run away. Beep Beep!
I took it all as good and that HCR will pass with a solid PO. I won’t push it past that.
Tim O
BAD FAN.
Justin
Are the sounds telling you to do something, John? Are they telling you to hurt someone?
Omnes Omnibus
Did you look for any Acme rocket skate boxes or the like in the vicinity? An anvil could have fallen on you.
Genine
I’ve heard such sounds before. It’s possible that your hard drive is working overtime. It’s not bad if you catch it in time. If it continues for a while, your computer will bite it.
You might want to look into that.
RedKitten
I can’t think of any other ideas that anybody hasn’t already mentioned, but yeah, I’d mute your sound first to see if the problem is mechanical or programming-related.
General Winfield Stuck
@Omnes Omnibus:
That would have been a bad Omen/
linda
good grief, tweety doing his part to give an assist to fox.
Laura W
@Violet: After slogging my way thru the first 28 comments on that blog, knowing there will be 9876 more by midnight tonight because nothing says SEXY like controversy, back stabbing and voter fraud…I am going to leave that miasma for Sylvia to trudge through. Thus far I’ve managed to stay away. A dog owner scorned and all that.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, because I really, really hate the phrase, but: “It is what it is”. Bitsy is the clear front runner now. Even if the other dogs that think they have a chance now somehow take all their peeps back and try to rally support, I doubt it can happen. I did not believe even Rufus could overtake the 250 vote lead Bitsy had on him a couple hours ago. To get 100 or more votes/hour is phenomenal, and that’s what Bitsy had done for the last 2-3 days.
All we can do is keep voting, keep asking others to vote, refresh often, drink heavily, and pace the floors. (And try not to dry heave, Violet. It’s very kind of you to continue caring in your condition. You are a real trooper!)
Omnes Omnibus
@General Winfield Stuck:
Fixt.
linda
Did you look for any Acme rocket skate boxes or the like in the vicinity? An anvil could have fallen on you.
good one … i love that cartoon.
gizmo
Whenever my computer has made noises, it has to do with a cooling fan that is on the fritz.
eduardo
http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/23/the-health-care-reform-political-time-bomb/#comments
An ominous prospect— Even if the Democrats manage to get some sort of healthcare bill thru Congress, they are then going to have to announce to the electorate that we won’t actually see any meaningful changes to the healthcare system until well after 2012.
ouch….
jeffreyw
@General Winfield Stuck: Even worse would have been an appearance from Yosemite Bolton, waving six shooters about.
Omnes Omnibus
@linda: Then you should enjoy this
Comrade Mary
When was the last time you vacuumed your computer, John? If you’re also hearing the fan quite loudly, it could be choked with dust and pet dander/hair.
How to vacuum your computer
1) Take off all your clothes. (Optional)
2) Follow the instructions here.
srv
When your cat gets out, you need to always take it to the vet for anti-virus treatment.
Joshua Norton
Run it through the dishwasher.
Tonal Crow
Um, do you have, say, icanhazcheezburger pages sitting in the background?
Fwiffo
As if you’d know, being a crazy person.
gnomedad
Your fanbelt is loose.
Also this.
inkadu
By anti-vaccine logic, this is conclusive scientific evidence that Windows 7 destroys hard drives.
gbear
@kid bitzer:
Can’t be Tunch. Tunch is down too.
Does anyone here have anything good to say about a 2008 Pontiac Vibe w/ 5-speed manual? A Honda Fit is too small to haul the drum set. I want the 26/33 mpg.
General Winfield Stuck
@Omnes Omnibus:
That video was doctored I tells ya.
Roadrunner lives!
bago
Weird strange sick twisted evil stuff!
And I want in. (skip to 4:24)
Martin
Vacuuming really doesn’t get it clean enough. Give it a pass through the dishwasher if you want all the dust bunnies out, and use hot water and heat dry as it’ll kill all the viruses.
Lavocat
Dude, WTF? STOP hitting the bongwater already!
Otherwise, I think you could make millions bottling your tap water and selling it at concerts!
Rock on!
inkadu
@gbear: Pontiac named a line of cars, “Vibe”? Wow.
gbear
@Lavocat:
I wonder if those pilots who got overflew the Mpls/StPaul airport by a couple hundred miles were trying to get rid of their bongwater before they landed?
gbear
@inkadu:
It’s basically a Toyota Matrix minus some of the moonbuggy body design. It’s cheap and the Toy engine is proven if not exciting.
Omnes Omnibus
@General Winfield Stuck: My uncle sent it to me: he is generally reliable, but he drinks a bit. So who knows…
Omnes Omnibus
@gbear: Peter Egan of Road & Track says this:
FWIW
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: Should be more in that block quote. My kingdom for an edit function.
Ella in NM
If it’s not a leftover CD in your drive freaking out, It’s probably your fan. I suggest you open up the case and check out the connections, dust it off inside, etc. Wiggle shit around. Shit, shake the whole thing a bit. Then close it back up and see what happens. If it still makes noise, you might have a hard drive issue. Which could also be fixed, but it would be above my pay grade.
So, if I lived nearby, at that point I’d be sending my husband over to have a look for ya.
jeffreyw
A fool and his money is a friend indeed.
gbear
@Omnes Omnibus:
I agree with Egan. It was a comfortable fit and it’s cavernous. The more I read about it the more I like it.
Seems like most of the people who hate it are Mazda fans.
“It’s no Mazda 3!!” I wish I could find a Mazda 6 wagon for sale within 500 miles.
Shell
OT thought, but…..
When someone hears voices, how come they never tell him to make a donation to his favorite charity or maybe bake a nice batch of cinnamon rolls?
canuckistani
It is possible that your computer is failing and you are losing your mind.
Omnes Omnibus
@gbear: My sister-in-law and her husband had one as a rental for a month when Microsoft moved them to Seattle. They liked t, but they are not car people.
Omnes Omnibus
@Shell: It happens, but it never makes the news.
kommrade reproductive vigor
Mash several cloves of garlic in a bowl, mix with 5 oz. holy water. Soak silver bullets in mixture for 10 minutes (5 if the walls have already started bleeding).
Load gun. Fire gun into computer at point blank range.
Molly
@kommrade reproductive vigor: “Mash several cloves of garlic in a bowl, mix with 5 oz. holy water. Soak silver bullets in mixture for 10 minutes (5 if the walls have already started bleeding).
Load gun. Fire gun into computer at point blank range.”
I am afraid I may truly love you guys. :) This is one of the funniest threads yet.
John, add me to the chorus of “mute, listen, and back up your shit ASAP.” It’s either the fan or the hard drive, hopefully the former.
LD50
Yes you are, for not paying enough attention to your cat.
Bad Horse's Filly
Well, just as with the Lost Tunch thread, I hope when this resolves itself, John updates us with the cause/solution. I hate it when there is no resolution to the plotline.
Gozer
The solution is to eat one of these and I guarantee you’ll forget about computer problems for a while. Bonus live version here.
different church-lady
That’s just all the WIN 7 FABULOUSNESS trying to get out!
NutellaonToast
It sounds like a fan to me. If you opened or mopved the computer around you could’ve shaken up some internal dust and got it stuck in a face somewhere.
But you should mos def back up your files in case it is your HDD
NutellaonToast
Oh, and noisy cooling fans can be fixed with a smack to the case. True story. My brother says I have a lot of balls to implement this fix, but it works.
JenJen
@Laura W: Ooooooh! Scandalous! I love it!
Come on Little Bitsy. Every last Juicer is emotionally invested in this!
Uriel
You may have accidentally installed Microsoft Ouji board extension for tablet computers- a lot of people have been having problems due to unpatched bugs relating to October 31.
Basically, it self activates and downloads the spirit of Linus Torvalds onto all your local drives. It turns out that, although Linus is still alive, his spirit is covered under the GNU GPL and is freely re-distrubutible to any machine so long as the human readable source code for his soul is also made available. Unfortunately, it’s compatibility with most Window’s OS is considered in its beta stages at best- Although, oddly enough many users report no problems under ME.
You can tell if it’s installed by going to the All Programs>Acessories>System Tools>What The Hell Is This>Stuff That Looks Like It Might Be Useful But Is Completely Undocumented So I’m Not Sure>How Did This Get On My Machine> Christ, I Give Up>Nothing_to_Do_With_ Your_Problem.exe
Unfortunately you can’t uninstall it because it’s fully integrated into the operating system.
Hope that helps!
Ash Can
@Uriel: LOL!
Andre
OK, we’re going to need an old priest and a young priest…
mclaren
Windows 7.
You were warned.
As the problems multiply exponentially, the 82% of the population still running Windows XP will simply reply, “We told you and you didn’t listen…”
General Winfield Stuck
@Uriel:
Gracias Amigo. You speak truth to power.
Comrade Mary
No no no — I’ve figured it out. Your computer’s been infected with Colin Mochrie.
Hmmm
@mclaren:
You know it just gets so old watching people who have no idea what they’re talking about make comments like this. Vista works great, Win 7 works great. The vast majority of the problems with any new OS are going to be caused by drivers, just like the vast majority of problems with XP at launch were caused by drivers. (Convenient how everyone seems to forget how everyone swore up and down that XP was garbage when it first came out, said they’d stick to Win98/Win2k and so forth.) It’s not Microsoft’s fault if a company decides not to release updated drivers, but of course people are going to take every opportunity to prove that they’re capable of repeating what they hear by nodding sagely and saying “See, that’s Win 7 for ya!” and similar when situations like this come up.
John Cole:
Click the volume icon found in the tray next to the clock and whatnot. In the thing that pops up click Mixer. If any piece of software that’s running is making the sounds you’re hearing the mixer will represent this with a little moving green bar similar to a graphic EQ.
MNPundit
Might just be overheating. Not necessarily imminent failure. Still not a good thing.
asiangrrlMN
Oh mah gawd. Funniest thread in
foreveratleast a dayminutes!I was gonna suggest Tunchie, too, and then demand pics to make sure he’s all right. I’m going to do the latter, anyway, because it’s what I do.
As for Little BITSY, ooooh, scaaaaandalous!
asiangrrlMN
@gbear: No shit, Sherlock! That was craaaazy!
Comrade Darkness
@linda: not if john snapshots the drive onto his new 1T external. He can recreate his current machine on his new one. The one he’ll be ordering tomorrow . . . er . . . from his macbook.
The Other Steve
All I can say John is remember Rule #1… Cardio
Oh yeah, and don’t go down into the basement.
yet another jeff
@NutellaonToast:
I’m glad I’m not the only one…you can tell by the sound when it finally goes and whacking won’t fix it anymore.