<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Could be a video driver and / or your video card.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div> </div><div>------------------------<br>Keith Smith</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:26 AM, George Toft <george@georgetoft.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1435648651"><div>
<div class="yiv1435648651moz-cite-prefix">Hard drive failures usually have sound
associated with them - a new brrr brrr brrr coming from the drive,
and errors in /var/log/messages. man smartctl is your friend.
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George Toft
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<div dir="ltr">oh hey..... I forgot to mention that the sound
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