<<The sound does come from the speakers. The same thing is happenning on my
computer. When I first installed Prime95 last summer, I was beleiving that the
sound was coming from a cricket that was near my window outside. It took me
few
months (the cricket theory couldn't hold anymore in the Winter :-) to
understand
that it was caused by the CPU activity generated by Prime95.>>
I had _no_ idea what it was originally, so I had to ask around. I'm still not
sure what causes it, and there doesn't seem to be a single, universally
accepted explanation for it. All I know, is that on my poor old 486 DX 33MHz
with 4MB RAM, accessing its hard drives would generate clicks and chirps
through its 8-bit SoundBlaster card, and starting Windows 3.1 would _really_
get the chirping going. Now, only Prime95 causes chirps on my Pentium 200
with a SoundBlaster clone. And others have the same chirps with much
different (and better) hardware, so it's can't really be a weird anomaly, in
my opinion. The chirping also changes speed with the level of CPU usage I put
on my computer, and it _seems_ to be one chirp per iteration.
S. "I liked it better with 4136613 when it did chirpchirpchirp and not now
with 7-something, cause it does chirp......chirp......chirp...." L.
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