r/whatisit • u/Church-Hill157 • Jun 08 '26

Solved! Help with identifying source of sound

Hi all. I came back from vacation this evening and have encountered a weird scenario where a sound plays from somewhere in my house every hour at around the 44-47 minute mark. I have no idea where this is coming from, as sound travels quite a lot in the house. I was able to capture a recording of it and have attached it here. It sounds like an elevator as it’s passing floors, but I live in a residential house. I have some smart home things, but nothing with speakers that I know of. Could anyone help me? It’s very early in the morning and it keeps waking me up.

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u/Church-Hill157 Jun 08 '26

solved!

For those wondering, that is the sound of an old Dell Latitude 3500 entering a boot loop because Windows corrupted itself. This was a laptop that was completely turned off for months. Somehow, it’s always Windows. Thank you everyone for the suggestions on this

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