I have an external firewire hard disk sitting on top on a powered monitor speaker on my desk here. Is this a terrible idea? Will it shorten the life of the drive? What's a safe distance? [more inside]
posted by armoured-ant on May 9, 2008 - 8 answers

Why do my speakers randomly begin to hum/buzz? [more inside]
posted by benji on Jan 9, 2008 - 9 answers

Logitech Z-2300 or Klipsch Promedia 2.1? [more inside]
posted by bigspoon on Sep 13, 2007 - 11 answers

Early this morning I was woken up to my computer speakers making a very loud, awful static noise. I got out of bed, shut them off, turned on the monitor, found that my computer was restarting itself, and went back to bed. This afternoon when I got home from work I turned the speakers back on and they were still making the static noise AND I discovered that my second hard drive was no longer being recognized. So I restarted the computer and now everything is fine -- what's going on here? (Windows XP Home) [more inside]
posted by TurkishGolds on Jun 21, 2004 - 1 answer

I want to know if I run the risk of Hard Disk damage by having large (8 inch sub+midrange) speakers near my computer. I have a Western Digital 100GB 7200 and a 160GB 8MB cache disk installed. [more inside]
posted by Keyser Soze on Jan 21, 2004 - 2 answers

Can anyone recommend a good sound card and computer speaker combination for music? [a little more inside] [more inside]
posted by Witty on Jan 7, 2004 - 16 answers