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

[Nancy Coffman]

I put my ear to the grindstone, AKA keyboard. Tiny electrical squeal. 

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> On Mar 27, 2018, at 9:03 AM, Mike Gorse via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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