Weird sound from PC

Adam18290 · 8 May 2007 at 20:13

When i scroll for example in MSN conversation windows I hear like a scrolling noise coming from my actuall PC, could be my hdd.
What you guys think?

Thanks

Chunk

Firegod · 8 May 2007 at 20:25

What type of mouse do you have mate?

fivefive · 8 May 2007 at 20:30

Adam18290 said:
When i scroll for example in MSN conversation windows I hear like a scrolling noise coming from my actuall PC, could be my hdd.
What you guys think?

Thanks

Chunk

i think it would be from your hdd... cos i got weird sound from pc too...

Adam18290 · 8 May 2007 at 23:48

I have a Logitech G5, I agree and think its coming from my hdd.
Is this normal or what?
Why is it doing it?

Thanks

Chunk

misterPK · 9 May 2007 at 10:10

Well the way to check would be to watch your hard drive activity light, see if that comes on when you scroll.

Out of interest, how much RAM do you have? are you running a lot of other things at the same time as MSN?

If it is the hard drive working away then what could be happening is that your memory is busy full of information for other things, and so the computer is having to get what the information for what you're scrolling to from the hard drive rather than the quieter and faster memory. Might be worth a check for viruses or spyware etc that could be using it up.

This is of course unless someone has a better suggestion, as I'm a long way off being an expert!

PK!

Adam18290 · 9 May 2007 at 17:54

Not sure, next time ill hear it ill see how much programs i got running.
No viruses, just done a format and have had norton running.
Also i had 1.5GB ram