On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 12:19:21PM -0800, evenso wrote: . . .
> > 3. Tiny Turbine > > A mild, small whir noise, rising in pitch like a tiny turbine powering up. > > " > -r > -ir > -ir-ir > -ir-ir-ir > -ir-ir-ir-ir > -ir-ir-ir-ir-ir > "wh-ir > > It is a very faint sound. Impossible to hear in a cafe, for example. > Duration is about 2 seconds. But repetition can be crazy, like 3 or 4 times > per minute. Or not so crazy, but it always repeats. > > It may not happen with ever session. I haven't paid close enough attention. > But I does not happen throughout the entirety of long sessions. It can come > and go. > > I may not have noticed it until now because I just moved into a quiet place. > But I can't be sure. I may have noticed it at first and dismissed it as a > harddrive spinning up for some reason, then simply not noticed the > repetition. > > It doesn't correlate with the CPU fan speed or the main fan speed. > > Actually, I thought it was a harddrive continually spinning up, which > concerned me, and I tried to verify that for this post. (They are quiet, > and insulated.) > > I started with the back of this large-ish laptop held to my ear for 5 > minutes. Of course, it promptly ended a cycle of repetitions for that > period. > > Things were complicated by the fact that this laptop has two harddrives. > > SAMSUNG HM250JI > WDC WD5000BEVT-8 > > I got the back plate off and the main fan had stopped so I was only > listening to the drives and, presumably, the CPU fan. One drive was > noticeably quieter and cooler than the other but I think it, the WD with > Debian on it, just runs that way. I have noticed it running cooler on > thermal monitors. (They are both still obscured by their caddies.) > > In conclusion. > > I hope this computer is going to last me a long time because I am going to > miss its characterisms when it is gone. At least, it has caused me to > contemplate it all the more. > Failed to mention. I did hear the tiny turbine when I had the hd bay backplate off. It was the same faintness even thought the noise from the hd bay was much more noticeable. So the drives are less suspect? -- Regards, Freeman _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
