I was working on a chop when my puter "chirped". Then , my tool bars went black, and Photoshop closed on me! It has made that chirping sound since I installed XP Pro. It only does it occasionally. I thought the black toolbars were the virus scanner, but I ditched that a while ago. Why does it do that?

:confused: does it only do that when you run memory intesive programs...ie photshop? sounds like memory problems or your chipset might be overheating?

tell me what kinda of computer you have how much memory and what type of chip you have and i'll se what I can find out for ya

It seems to do it randomly. It chirps at least once after I turn it on. Same with the black toolbars. I haven't noticed any pattern to them.
I am running a PII 333 clocked to 417, an A-Open DX63 Pro mobo, 256 megs of RAM, NVIDIA G-Force 2 GTS, and a cheap sound card.

Originally posted by motorhead72k5
It seems to do it randomly. It chirps at least once after I turn it on. Same with the black toolbars. I haven't noticed any pattern to them.
I am running a PII 333 clocked to 417, an A-Open DX63 Pro mobo, 256 megs of RAM, NVIDIA G-Force 2 GTS, and a cheap sound card.

Its your sound card :flipoff2:

Actually, I have heard of this happening to my friends water cooled system. He overclocks it too... Not sure why it happens though

my monitor chirps at me sometimes...drives me nuts!!! not sure why it does it.

Originally posted by fj40john
my monitor chirps at me sometimes...drives me nuts!!! not sure why it does it.

Mine makes a tone sometimes, like when your ears ring... Thats what I thought it was too for the longest time. But a swift hit to the side of the monitor and it stops :laughing:

mine does the ringing, but it also has a chirp, seems like the chirp is almost consistently timed...kinda weird.

:flipoff2:

http://a768.g.akamai.net/7/768/51/634ec07d933a12/www.apple.com/powermac/images/indextop02022003.jpghttp://a772.g.akamai.net/7/772/51/f554e513b7498f/www.apple.com/powermac/images/indextitle012803.gif

Originally posted by Chemical442
:flipoff2:

http://a768.g.akamai.net/7/768/51/634ec07d933a12/www.apple.com/powermac/images/indextop02022003.jpghttp://a772.g.akamai.net/7/772/51/f554e513b7498f/www.apple.com/powermac/images/indextitle012803.gif

Ill take that SWEET ASS monitor... I guess I could use a new decoration for the entry too...

Originally posted by Chemical442
:flipoff2:

http://a768.g.akamai.net/7/768/51/634ec07d933a12/www.apple.com/powermac/images/indextop02022003.jpghttp://a772.g.akamai.net/7/772/51/f554e513b7498f/www.apple.com/powermac/images/indextitle012803.gif

Why does that have handles on it? Is that their laptop?

IMO Macs are like Saabs, they make ok stuff, but they are to quirky for me to want one.:D

Originally posted by motorhead72k5


Why does that have handles on it? Is that their laptop?

IMO Macs are like Saabs, they make ok stuff, but they are to quirky for me to want one.

When I had my job at the carwash, it took me liek a full minute to find the damn keyhole

Originally posted by LordRatner


When I had my job at the carwash, it took me liek a full minute to find the damn keyhole

Especially when they pile a bunch of crap on the console.

Originally posted by motorhead72k5


Especially when they pile a bunch of crap on the console.

Lol, most of that went up the vacuum tubes :evil:

If I had the money, Id ditch my PC and go Mac in a second. That Mac is lookin sweet.
Scott

The Apple Cinema Display shouldn't be on the same page as the word "affordable" :eek: $1250


Sounds like it's running too fast! Slow that sucker down a bit! Does it have temp sensors on board?

Originally posted by VT_Toy
Sounds like it's running too fast! Slow that sucker down a bit! Does it have temp sensors on board?
T have been rinning it this way for about 3 years now and it never did this till recently.

Originally posted by motorhead72k5

T have been rinning it this way for about 3 years now and it never did this till recently.

go clean the dust and crap out of the heat sinks

Originally posted by motorhead72k5


Why does that have handles on it? Is that their laptop?

IMO Macs are like Saabs, they make ok stuff, but they are to quirky for me to want one.:D

The handles are for easy moves, as well as part of the design. the handles on the bottom are a base structure as well. the handles are also helpfull when lifting it up to upgrade, like going from 512megs memory to 1 gig or slapping an additional hard drive in, or whatever your moddin' self feels like doing.

As for the Saab parallelogram, i think a comparasin to the BMW would be more like it. For a few buck more, you get a much better machine, finer craftsman ship, better looks, and a few different ways of doing the same things the other guys do, only in a much more efficient way. you get what you pay for with computers, and this is evident in the Macintosh lines.

Throw Yellow Dog on there and you've got a bitchin' machine!

Originally posted by Chemical442


The handles are for easy moves, as well as part of the design. the handles on the bottom are a base structure as well. the handles are also helpfull when lifting it up to upgrade, like going from 512megs memory to 1 gig or slapping an additional hard drive in, or whatever your moddin' self feels like doing.

As for the Saab parallelogram, i think a comparasin to the BMW would be more like it. For a few buck more, you get a much better machine, finer craftsman ship, better looks, and a few different ways of doing the same things the other guys do, only in a much more efficient way. you get what you pay for with computers, and this is evident in the Macintosh lines.

I was kidding about the handles.;) I have never spent any time with the Macs. A lot of it has to do with the cost and hardware and software support, but that's another thread. I would like to find one to play around with, just to see how they work.

Originally posted by Chemical442


blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah OSX is based on unix and you dont have to download an ssh cleint and has all the productivity apps winblows does. Also has support and patches ;)


Well said Brian :flipoff2: Plus the hardware is better built than a lot of offshore shit crappy generic mobo's and chipsets slapped together on wintel machines.


As for the car thing if you compare $$ for $$$ its like GM vs Ford IMO. Like anyhting you get used to what you have and dont want to change.