HELP!!!Computer sounds like Mad Cow Dying!
I get a call from a business that I have been to many times before, it's an office full of women that know nothing at all about computers.
"Bryan, you have to come out here and help me, my computer is making a sound like a MAD COW DYING! And I am afraid that I am going to lose everything." Now whenever we get a call from a customer with a "problem" like this, we asaume that they are slightly embellishing, so i figured the HDD might have been bad and was making a weird noise, but non that compared to a Cow foaming at the mouth.
So I showed up and sat down at the computer and listened, and hear nothing, so I opened a few programs just to get the HDD working, and still, no sound. I asked the other ladies in the office if the sound only happen when you do a certian thing or what... They just told me to sit there and wait. About one minute later a horribe sound (which, seriously, could be described as a dying cows last moo) eminates from the computer. It lasted for about 5 sec then stoped. Now the first thing I see is a UPS sitting on top of the computer which is located under a desk. So I take the UPS off the the top of the computer, and set it down on the floor. I also pull the computer out from under the desk and seperate the two. So agian I waited for this sound and about 3 or 4 mins. later I heard it agian and figured that it wasn't coming from the UPS. So now I concentrate on the computer and wait agian, and almost like clock work the sound occurs, and I hear it coming from the back of the computer, so i quickly poke my head behind it to look. nothing looks out of the ordinary, so I am now just looking all over the computer for anything foreign sitting on the motherboard so agian like clock work the sound occurs agian only now it sounds like it is coming for above me, so I look up and I see a draw above me and above where the computer was sitting. So I open the drawer and all I see are a bunch of floders and think nothing of it. Well the sound came from that area agian so I opened the top drawer and thats when I saw a pager set for vibrate going off. After I recovered from laughing so hard, I got up to tell the lady the news. She wasn't there, so I found her supervisor and anyone else I could in office and had all I in a big circle around me and informed them to my recent discovery. When they stopped laughing, I asked the supervisor if she would sign my invoice for our min. charge of $95, so I could get back to the shop and tell this wonderful story to my co workers.
