Philipp Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
Yes for about 4 hours then started up again gradually becoming more pronounced with time. > 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 It may well be physical (yes I know about Induction). The first time it happened I tried to reboot immediately but the boot wouldn't go past the SCSI bios part so I powered down and left the machine off for about 30 minutes and then restarted. After about 4 hours the sound problem restarted and when trying to reboot the machine it again wouldn't go past the SCSI bios part. I turned off again for about 5 minutes and restarted. That was about 24 hours ago with no recurrence of the problem yet!!! My suspects are in order of likelyhood: Mains electricity supply (although the computer is on an UPS). Faulty component somewhere. Software. I have never come across anything like this before but then I've not had a sound card before and with the speakers turned off there is no indication of any problem. I shall wait and see what happens over time. Barry Samuels
