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

[Jude DaShiell]

Buy a stethoscope and use it on the laptop.  If that's silent your laptop 
is either off or dead. On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Tracy Carcione via nfbcs 
wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:26:07
> From: Tracy Carcione via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> To: nfbcs at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Tracy Carcione <carcione at access.net>
> Subject: [nfbcs] With silent disk, how do you know?
> 
> 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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