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this is REALLY weird

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:06 am
by Mr. SmartyPants
ok, in my browser window, explorer, anything, whenever i move the scroll bar on the side... my harddrives make a slight "whirring" noise whenever it moves.. what the heck? why does that happen? o_O

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:16 am
by Tsukuyomi
I'm not a computer person (besides for typing), but I think u should get it checked out before something goes wrong. Wait, I'm not a computer genious. What am I saying!

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:52 am
by Mr. SmartyPants
i don't think it would be a problem with my computer, im just curious as to why it does that XD

PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 11:59 pm
by Gypsy
Um ... that is weird. Sorry, I'm not in a position to be of any help here. :sweat:

PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:43 am
by Locke
Its a laptop thing :thumb:
Your not alone dude, that happens to me. Ive been wondering what it was.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:46 am
by Slater
allocating memory.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:50 am
by Mr. SmartyPants
its a desktop locke...

PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:11 pm
by shooraijin
I agree with frwl, it's probably just swapping. My iBook has 768MB of RAM in it, so OS X hardly needs to touch virtual memory and the hard disk is usually off. You only hear it spin up when I start running more memory-expensive applications or start up other programs (briefly before it spins down).

PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:02 pm
by Locke
Well what Shoo said >.>

PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:30 pm
by Kaligraphic
Hmm, you got a lot of RAM, or just a little? Might I interest you in switching to Linux? ;)

PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 6:34 am
by Mr. SmartyPants
i have 1024 megabytes of ram (2 256 cards and 1 512 card)

PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:24 pm
by Kaligraphic
Well, can I still convert you to Linux?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:10 pm
by Mr. SmartyPants
i already have *proudly displays his cd if suse live*

i have... no idea how to use it ^^;; also sound driver is weird and i dunno how to connect to the internet!

okay Linux off a cd isn't really fun... its pretty slow actually