Why is my computer mooing

Posted Apr Wed 20th pm Still does not help find what the hell it is!!! Posted Apr Wed 20th pm Someone I think this guy Swanky is in the U.

Posted Apr Wed 20th pm I don't know. Sorry it gets hard from here, since we can't see your computer. I'm pretty sure it's an extension mooing at you. Maybe Squirl will discover something. Posted Apr Wed 20th pm I need to end this thread!!!! Drahken Posts: Joined: Nov Mon 15th pm. Also check in the.

Your most likely solution is to start a new profile, and redownload and reinstall each of your extensions one at a time and see if the sound returns. If one of your extensions is the culprit, it should be easy enough to find which one. If it was just some wierd error, then reinstalling fresh copies of the extensions should clear it up. You won't know which one caused the problem, but the problem will be fixed. If that fails, you can either put up with the problem, or uninstall firefox and delete all it's files and folders, then do a completely fresh install.

Posted Apr Wed 20th pm swanky wrote: must be a yank!!! Squirle Posts: Joined: Apr Thu 14th pm. This is not an 'Improve your english' forum. But I am starting to find that there is a limit to the amount of learning that I am willing to do for Apple at my own expense.

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You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Rough story. My current Dell laptop sounds like a small vacuum admittedly an exaggeration, but certainly an annoyance if quiet is an issue for you. ThinkPads are supposed to be very good, though they come with a price premium similar to the MacBook Pros, and some of the newer Core Duo ThinkPads T60 in particular have had similar reports of whine.

That should reduce temperatures and quiet things down. Thanks for your comments and suggestions. I did try disabling one of the cores with CHUD, but even with only one core, I am still able to exceed a temperature of 70 degrees Celsius far too easily, just by taking a look at a few pictures in iPhoto not editing them or anything fancy, just looking at them. I am not considering a switch to a Wintel laptop at this point in time, though. If I ever do consider a switch, however, you can be sure that I will do a lot of preliminary research on noise issues!

I hope Apple will take the problems more seriously, as more and more people speak out about the issues and identify them as completely unacceptable.

I think these CPUs were made to full-bore. Thanks for your feedback, Daniel. The more people speak out, the more there is a chance that Apple might eventually take these issues really seriously. But something drastic will need to be done about noise issues.

All I can do is quickly close any complex web pages, never copy more than one or two files at a time, leave the room when running DiskWarrior, etc. HandyMac: Thanks for sharing your experience. Like I said in my post, my only experience when it comes to daily use of a laptop computer was with the 5-year-old TiBook. I suspected that things had gotten worse in the intervening period—otherwise the behaviour of the MacBook would be utterly unacceptable to most laptop users—and your experience seems to confirm it.

It sounds like laptop engineers have decided that fan noise is something we have to live with, and, based on current sales trend, it sounds like most users are accepting this as an inevitable thing.

Like you, however, I find myself utterly unable to accept it. I would MUCH prefer a constant, low-level fan noise that never changes. Now, whether you and I are just part of a small group of abnormally sensitive users or of a larger group of dissatisfied users is obviously something that we cannot determine from our end. I suspect that Apple only looks at the bottom line, and, unless a large enough number of people start returning their machines and making it clear this situation is unacceptable, nothing will change.

If I remember correctly, the stink we managed to raise about the G4 MDD noise fiasco three and a half years ago did ultimately lead not only to the Power Supply Replacement program that eliminated the most unbearable noise in the machine, but also to the hiring of a noise specialist audio engineer or something by Apple, and a few months later they came out with the brand new G5 tower and with claims of much improved acoustics and much more reasonable fan noise levels.

Can we achieve something similar for the laptops? Do we need to organize a petition? Are there really enough dissatisfied people like us?

But maybe we do need to start getting organized. I wonder if there is a way to underclock the Macbook and Macbook Pro? The Intel mobo community usually figures out a way to hack the firmware to overclock motherboards to achieve even better gaming performance.

Underclocking would slow things down, of course, but there would be less heat generated. When I purchased my current 15in G4 powerbook, I had the choice of either the then maximum clock speed of 1. I purchased the 1. I would like to purchase a Macbook Pro next year, I guess, and I would be happy most of the time with essentially the same performance level.

I myself have not experienced this issue. Occasionally, the fan will come on it is fairly loud but I expect it due to the fact that World of Warcraft taxes the processor and memory. I have not had issues with it coming on and then going off continuously. I totally understand your situation and how frustrating it must be for you.

I just wanted to provide my experience as another data point. There might be unsupported hacks that can reduce CPU usage even further, but I am not interested in unsupported solutions. Jay: Maybe you are right about the difference between your experience and mine. This was a continuous fan noise, and it was indeed fairly loud, but it was not this intermittent mooing noise that I am describing here.

So maybe in your usage patterns you are just going from one extreme to the other without experiencing the in-between situation. The second representative I talked to was not as abrupt, but ultimately after consulting with product specialists his diagnosis was the same.

Pierre: did you check for the little piece of plastic that covers the heat vents on some shipping MacBooks and MacBook Pros? There is an article on TUAW. Also, see this Apple support document. Well, all the problems that you had were in mine as well.

Even the magsafe connection area buzzed and whined, but just not as loudly compared to the power adapter. Then, once my Macbook reaches temperatures around 64CC, it would moo to no avail. This laptop also runs quite warm—unbearable to touch when doing intensive tasks such as installing Windows XP or burning a lot of discs. I personally think it heats up way too quickly. So off to the store I went. I also overheard another conversation between a Genius and a Macbook owner who was unhappy with the heat.

Since when should a notebook have the potential to burn? So after going home, I went to a closer store to talk to a Genius. Well, I love this laptop and its look, speed, etc. But I must admit that this experience leaves me a little fearful of purchasing another laptop from Apple. I hope Apple sorts out its priorities and improves its customer relations department soon. Chris: Thanks a lot for taking the time to share your own story. I am of course sorry that you had a bad experience, especially as a switcher coming from Windows.

Also, by running a Rosetta app MS Office , you are looking at increased processor demands. Rumors have it that Intel did all of the hardware circuit design. No idea if they are to blame for bad fan management or if Apple did it. Still, it should notice if it is pulsing the fan and switch to running the fan on low. It could be pulsing up to low. I have kept an eye on the CPU activity during various activities, and Universal applications cause CPU activity to jump up just as easily as Rosetta applications do.

Of course, I am talking about iPhoto Universal vs. Microsoft Word Rosetta here. You cannot really compare. I find this mooing noise totally puzzling myself. Does this really help with the cooling? To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question. Posted on Mar 24, PM. Page content loaded. Mar 24, PM. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: Fulsen Fulsen. It sounds like a fan or a harddisk trying to start up.

A little bit like a moo of a cow.