Two problems - please help...

[ksignorini]

As of last night, two weird things started happening. Here goes:

1 - Every couple of minutes my hard disk (I think) makes a quick "shoook" sound.

2 - I use the Mail button in the Internet Explorer toolbar to send links to web pages to people and all of a sudden (I didn't even shut down Explorer--it worked one second and stopped the next) I get an error that says something about an Internet settings error and to check the mail and news settings (and of course, a new message window doesn't pop up anymore).

Can anyone help me with these. Sorry I don't have the exact error from IE but I'm away from my Mac right now.

Thanks,
Kent!

[adambyte]

1- (Forgive me if I'm being overly newbie-based, I don't know how experienced you are...) The "shoook" sound you are referring to might be the Hard Disk in your computer spinning up. When your hard disk has been idle for a while, it's stops spinning to save power. Then, when you start using it, it makes the "shoook" sound, and starts spinning again. No big deal.

2- Go to the "System Preferences" application, and click on "Internet"... click on the "Mail" tab and choose your default email application from there.

Hope this helps

[ksignorini]

Originally posted by adambyte
1- (Forgive me if I'm being overly newbie-based, I don't know how experienced you are...) The "shoook" sound you are referring to might be the Hard Disk in your computer spinning up. When your hard disk has been idle for a while, it's stops spinning to save power. Then, when you start using it, it makes the "shoook" sound, and starts spinning again. No big deal.

2- Go to the "System Preferences" application, and click on "Internet"... click on the "Mail" tab and choose your default email application from there.

Hope this helps

On #1 - it's not that. This is not a normal spinning up sound. I'm quite computer experienced (no prob on the newbie stuff--hard to tell from a quick post). It sounds like a piece of software might be forcing a sector seek every 2 minutes or something. I'm going to test whether it's only after waking up or of it happens after a reboot and no sleep but I'm pretty sure that it happens in either situation. It doesn't sound well but it doesn't sound like faulty hardware. I think something in software is doing it--just not sure what.

On #2 - thanks. I never thought to look there. (I looked in IE's preferences only but I was in a hurry. I'll fix this tonight.)

Thanks.

Kent!