Most people know I am very technically savy, but I wanted to share something that my computer has been doing, and I havent been able to figure out.

I have been woken up at random points in the night with my computer 'meowing'. Every now and then it will play the piano part of 'Clocks' from Coldplay.

It is possible my computer is coming out of the closet, but does anyone have any ideas?

Its not AOL IM. I have just recently (today) reset my sound theme to default. It is so random when it happens, that I cant isolate it to a particular process. I have scanned the machine completely for known viruses and adware.

[Edited on January 2, 2008 at 10:15 AM. Reason : .]

1/2/2008 10:05:19 AM

Quote :

"t is possible my computer is coming out of the closet"

lol.

1/2/2008 10:07:49 AM

Check your scheduled tasks. It's possible someone played a joke on you by scheduling it to play those things weekly or nightly at a certain time or times.

Quote :

"It is so random when it happens, that I cant isolate it to a particular process."

If they scheduled a bunch of weekly tasks at different days/times it could seem random.

[Edited on January 2, 2008 at 10:35 AM. Reason : ]

1/2/2008 10:33:50 AM

it just wants some milk

1/2/2008 10:34:02 AM

So, my theory is that the meowing is a fan screeching, and the music notes are:

Quote :

"During normal operation or in Safe mode, your computer may play "Fur Elise" or "It's a Small, Small World" seemingly at random. This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance. This is a design feature of a detection circuit and system BIOSes developed by Award/Unicore from 1997 on. "

Maybe?

1/2/2008 10:37:04 AM

Quote :

"Check your scheduled tasks. It's possible someone played a joke on you by scheduling it to play those things weekly or nightly at a certain time or times."

did this to roommates in college when i wasn't in the room

bone thugs and harmony's first of tha month on the first day of the month, usually when i knew they'd still be sleeping

1/2/2008 10:43:57 AM

Its random. Its not always at night. if I left my speakers up, it gets my attention. I'll check the scheduled tasks anyway. Problem really pisses me off.

1/2/2008 11:04:14 AM

meow did you check out what wolfmarsh posted or not?

1/2/2008 12:13:42 PM

1/2/2008 12:24:50 PM

well there's your problem

1/2/2008 12:43:04 PM

Chief, I think what Wolfmarsh posted was a joke. Thats not it.

1/2/2008 12:46:23 PM

^ I mean, I think the post was serious... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/261186

but your computer was playing coldplay...so I don't think that's it.

[Edited on January 2, 2008 at 12:54 PM. Reason : .]

1/2/2008 12:49:06 PM

thats what I was trying to say I knew wolf's post had root in reality, but its not my problem.

1/2/2008 1:10:54 PM

the "meowing" is probably a fan...mine does that at night sometimes, too

1/2/2008 2:16:25 PM

No, its not a fan. Its really a sound coming from the speakers that sounds like a human saying Meow.

1/2/2008 4:30:58 PM

Sounds like meow you have the meow Super Troopers meow virus

1/2/2008 4:40:17 PM

^ Lol. I was going to say that we need to find a way to fix this right meow.

1/2/2008 4:50:54 PM

Mine was a serious suggestion, but im having a good time laughing at the problem

In fact, i think im gonna go set up a scheduled task for this on a coworkers machine.

1/2/2008 5:51:58 PM

I think your computer has a poltergeist...

1/2/2008 6:06:38 PM

1/2/2008 6:10:25 PM

Do you have your computer hooked up to external speakers?

I had a Logitech 3.1 surround system hooked up to mine and it would sometimes pick up interference or something from a radio station nearby....it would do this when the computer wasnt even turned on.

Is this a possibility for you?

1/2/2008 6:49:03 PM

this may sound basic but have you checked your windows sound theme?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/soundscheme.mspx

check to make sure a random app didn't add a custom beep and set it to meow.wav or something strange.

i'm guessing though it's AIM expressions and someone has it set to their signin/signout sound. to double check just disable all signin/signout sounds in AIM

1/2/2008 7:21:46 PM

I reset the windows sound theme 2 days ago. Havent been home yet to see if that worked.

1/3/2008 11:40:36 AM