[nfbcs] With silent disk, how do you know?

[Mike Gorse]

Good question. I have the same issue and end up resorting to weird tests 
in order to figure out whether my laptop is on or not. I used to press the 
button on my cd drive, since the drive would generally open if the 
computer is on, except that now I have a laptop without a cd drive. 
Sometimes I'll plug my iPhone into my computer and observe whether it 
starts to charge, as a test to see whether the computer is on.

On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs wrote:

> With the new silent disks, how do you know your computer is doing
> something, when Jaws goes silent?  For instance, I have trouble making
> sure my new laptop is on.  I can feel a tiny draft from the fan, but it's
> very subtle.
> Or, just now, my old work desktop decided to do an automatic update, and
> Jaws stopped talking.  The only way I knew the PC was still working was
> that I could hear the disk spinning, and, when it rebooted after the
> update, spinning for another few minutes before Jaws finally came up.
> So, with the new silent discs, how do you know something is happening and
> you should just wait a bit?
> Tracy
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