On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 12:55:13PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote: > I am running Debian Potato on a machine which is totally SCSI ( I > feel that way myself sometimes) and includes a PlexWriter > CD-Writer and a SoundBlaster Live 1024. > > I hadn't used my machine this morning and I happened to enter the > room to hear clicks coming from both speakers. I tried lsmod and > no sound modules were loaded. I also discovered that every > movement of the mouse produced rapid clicks from the speakers. > The mouse, by the way, is on IRQ 5 and the sound card on an IRQ > above 10. > > Using the keyboard also produced clicks as did ejecting the CD > tray (no CD). > > I decided to close down and reboot the machine. The clicks > continued right through closedown and didn't stop until the > machine actually started to reboot.
Did the clicks stop after the reboot? To me it sounds like a physical phenomenon - not software. You have to realize that there are many different forms of electricity inside a computer system and under special circumstances they might produce strange things. Do you know about "induction"? Phil
