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i have a laptop when if i put it on a hard surface and max out the speaker volume and listen carefully when i maximise (god that sounds so transformeresq!! good film btw) or minimise (they never say that though!) an application there is a qute 'blllluupp' noise.
anyone else get that? or have i a specialist tinatus?
cheers
Have you tried the same test with external speakers? At full volume they give you a better idea.
Have you checked your sound settings to see what "event noises" are set....... you don't say which OS version but most have a facility to run a test so you could compare?
The "hard surface" is reasonable to me............it is an accoustic sounding board. As I suggested, even very cheap PC speakers will do a far better analysis job ;)
The next move is that we will have to modify your "event noises"? Like launching an application gets Clint Eastwood saying:
"What you've got to ask yourself is 'do I feel lucky'........well?.......... do ya, punk?"
Or, instead of the "You've got mail" we have:
"Muhahahahaha...........some m***** f***** just sent you more junk mail"
Aaaaaaaah!.............. the things that I did in my youth :D
Yeah i think nihil is right on the dot...if xp (most likely?) go to Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices - > Sounds tab and see what sounds are set for what action, ive seen this on a few PC and people didnt know how to get rid of it...you can just choose WIndows Deafult or No sounds from the drop down menu and see if that stops it....
Hello yellowcat,
The answer is: Utopia Critical Stop .WAV, where "Utopia" is an MS sound scheme, .wav is an audio file, and I am an even sadder individual than yourself. :p:D
Actually, I clearly remembered the event sound you mentioned, so I just had to check it out :D
Wow Nihil, I thought I was bad..
i do not have any sounds running
emptied the folder ages ago
i have noticed the same thing no my cassio cassiopia
so no it is not anything to do with critical stops or other ms sounds
i might be dumb but i aint that much of a newbie, oldbie perhaps!!
any other thoughts?
well, my current PC has an onboard soundcard and there is definately some kind of signal leakage. I've disabled windows sounds ages ago and yet with nothing else making sounds things like moving the mouse and maximising/minimising make strange noises (very quietly) could be something similar.
Yeah, that was why I suggested trying external speakers to see if it had any effect.
Turning off the sounds in Windows doesn't disable the chip. Attaching external speakers may well do that?
It wont turn off the chip but it will bypass the onboard speakers. If it makes the same noises then its a bad sound card. If is fixed then the onboard speakers are bad.
When you turn the volume to max, it's likely anything
could happen. Musicians know this. Turn your guitar amp all
the way up and plug in a cord with frayed shielding. you'll
get anything from aircraft communication to 60s oldies.
If nothing weird happens at normal volumes, don't sweat it.
That makes sense. If you take a radio, hi-fi, or TV and turn the volume up when there are no media inserted or they are not tuned to anything, you will tend to get a background noise or interference.
In the case of the laptop the audio chipset and speakers are internal, so volume has to be adjusted via the software. That is why I suggested trying external speakers as they have a manual volume control.
I wouldn't describe either of them as being "bad" rather that this is a shortcoming of onboard devices.
:)
I have one pc that makes all kinds of noises when a cordless phone is near it. Not a big deal for me so I don't worry about it.
OK folks................ the plot thickens, I have actually managed to replicate this phenomenon on a desktop (mini tower).
Dell Dimension 8100
P4 RAMBUS RAM
nVidia GeForce 3 64Mb DDR
Crystal 5.1 Audio Chipset?.............. the card is a Turtle Beach.
Stereo desktop speakers (cheap)
Ubuntu Linux (Hoary Hedgehog..............I know, I know :eek:)
So I am playing a music CD and when I send a mouse instruction I get the "bloop" noise.
OK, I think that I have part of the answer. It does the same with some mouse instructions to other applications. Only if I turn the desktop speakers' manual volume control up to maximum.
Strangely enough it does not do it consistently, only some instructions within some applications, menu bars and sub-menus. That makes me think that it actually happens all the time but with the volume turned down a bit I cannot hear it?
:)
ha see i am not completely 'mad'!!
Of course not.............. but having gone to some effort to replicate the phenomenon, I would be more open to such an accusation?Quote:
ha see i am not completely 'mad'!!
:D
right now i have had a good few post undermy belt and this one has got some good answers so how can i get a green blob
i try to post interesting questions but i still have a red blob
i would like a green blob, just one will do
I've experienced something similar to this. When there is an incoming cell signal to a certain area around my apartment, my monitor will momentarily flicker and the speakers will output a quiet buzz. The stronger the flicker and buzz, the closer the signal is. Back when I had a roommate I could tell him when one of our phones were about to ring (his PC didn't react the way mine does).
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