Windows 3.1 startup - General

I still remember that Windows 98 starting sound, and comparing it to what we have today, it just rocks.

Wow, that sound at 0:20. I remember that my first PC did that too.

i wish i still had my apple 2gs

i wonder why mips hasn't posted here yet

When I tried to run 3.1 in a VM, it was LAGGY. It may have been my shit computer, but it was laggy. Anyone else think Windows 2000 was the best Windows OS?

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;40683614]i remember in primary school when everyone logged into the computers all you could here was the XP start up theme on full volume flooding the whole class[/QUOTE] That still happens at my school today since they still use XP :v:

[QUOTE=Chrille;40681965]That thing sounds like a fighter jet taking off[/QUOTE] My 8800gt was louder

[QUOTE=DrBreen;40688150]i wonder why mips hasn't posted here yet[/QUOTE] or Amiga OS

[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;40683489]You could wire your own possibly, it just takes extra work to put it in[/QUOTE] Switches for ATX power sources use normally-open switches, rather than the toggle switches used by old AT power sources... Wouldn't having a toggle switch fuck with the motherboard or something? You could still wire in something like a really old normally open switch that made some rad noise, or even an arcade cabinet button.

[QUOTE=residualgrub;40680541]I always loved the sound old computers made while running. No idea why though.[/QUOTE] Because it sounds like technology as opposed to computers now which just sound like a disappointing air conditioner.

[QUOTE=POLOPOZOZO;40689366]My 8800gt was louder[/QUOTE] Dude, you haven't heard my Dell XPS M1730 when all 3 fans are blaring. I actually felt the ground rock.

For some reason my computer used to make a weird squealing noise when I opened Tribes 1. It's the only game that ever did that and it just randomly stopped one day.

[QUOTE=Mr Shadyface;40681600]Can anyone tell me what that grinding sound you hear then the PC's loading is? It's one of the sounds from my child hood, and I never understood what was making it. I used to think it was because my old, shitty computer literally worked using gears and cogs and stuff.[/QUOTE] That's the hard drive, the whirring noise is the platter spinning and the grinding noise is the arm with the read heads moving across the platter. [img]http://tuffcomputercompany.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/hard-drive.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Polonium9;40711121]Dude, you haven't heard my Dell XPS M1730 when all 3 fans are blaring. I actually felt the ground rock.[/QUOTE] Suppressed air is what you're looking for.