Sounds from my laptop like water gurgling - strange comp sounds.wma (0/1)
joevan
headphone jacks I can still hear it. It is sort of mysterious like
little microbes inside checking things out. It varies from squeaky to
weird stuff. Electronic trash? Bad sound card? Anyone have any ideas.
I made a sound file wma of the noise. Will post it somewhere if anyone
has any ideas.
Meat Plow
These sounds are present while the laptop is idle? Most laptops don't
have the quietest sound devices. I've always attributed it to the
compactness of the electronics. The noise floor in this Asus M6NE a once
fairly expensive unit is around -20 db. That's pretty noisy. The M-Audio
Delta 44 in my desktop is much quieter at around -60 db.
Mike Easter
> It is not the speakers because when I unplug them and put in my
> headphone jacks I can still hear it.
Does that mean that you hear the sound thru' the headphones, or does
that mean that you hear the sound not thru' the headphones but instead
'thru the air' around the box (regardless of whether headphones are
plugged in or not)?
Strange sounds that come thru the air can come from such as your hard
drive - a bad sign.
If you think your soundcard or the soundcard-like portion of an
integrated mobo sound is responsible for/ generating/ the noise, you
should be able to disable it by disabling the sound in devices.
--
Mike Easter
joevan
wrote:
>joevan wrote:
>> It is not the speakers because when I unplug them and put in my
>> headphone jacks I can still hear it.
>
>Does that mean that you hear the sound thru' the headphones, or does
>that mean that you hear the sound not thru' the headphones but instead
>'thru the air' around the box (regardless of whether headphones are
>plugged in or not)?
Yes I can hear it through the headphones and or the speaker system.
The laptop is silent with neither headphones or speakers plugged it.
>Strange sounds that come thru the air can come from such as your hard
>drive - a bad sign.
I don't think the sounds are through the air but through the circuits.
>If you think your soundcard or the soundcard-like portion of an
>integrated mobo sound is responsible for/ generating/ the noise, you
>should be able to disable it by disabling the sound in devices.
You talking about the microphone for example. I unplugged it and the
sound is still there.
Aardvark
Does the word 'tinnitus' ring any bells?
:-)
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Mike Easter
> Mike Easter
>> If you think your soundcard or the soundcard-like portion of an
>> integrated mobo sound is responsible for/ generating/ the noise, you
>> should be able to disable it by disabling the sound in devices.
> You talking about the microphone for example. I unplugged it and the
> sound is still there.
No, that's not what I mean.
When I'm talking about disabling the device, I'm talking about with the OS.
Your newsreader is Agent, so that means you are Win. I'll use XP as an
example.
Start/CP/System/Hardware tab/ Devuce manager button/ View devices by
type/ find the sound device (if there is a bunch of stuff in sound,
video, and game controllers you may have to guess and investigate a
little to determine which one should be considered the 'device' for the
sound) / then R click that device and disable it.
If that makes the noise go away, it shows that the noise is actually
coming from the sound 'section'. The problem is that it isn't really
easy to fix/replace parts on LTs.
--
Mike Easter
joevan
wrote:
>joevan wrote:
Thanks for the information. I am back to my big case desktop w/ xp and
the sound is great.
The laptop is a Toshiba that I just got about a month ago. It has
win7. It is great except for the sound thing. I will look around for
sound stuff just in case it is something basic that I can do.
joevan
<mhy...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:42:57 -0400, joevan ??o??:
I guess I will go back to listening to my good music on the old
workbox xp machine. I knew there were setbacks to laptops but
listening to water gurgling while listening to Pavarotti is a bit
much. Or maybe I will plug in my old Yamaha hi fi system and listen
with my big old speakers that I have had for about 30 years or so.
Mike Easter
> The laptop is a Toshiba that I just got about a month ago. It has
> win7. It is great except for the sound thing. I will look around for
> sound stuff just in case it is something basic that I can do.
If it is b0rken new hardware, it should be under warranty.
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Mike Easter
joevan
wrote:
Thanks, I found the problem. I had enhancements checked, after playing
with them I found what I was looking for. Thanks a million
Beauregard T. Shagnasty
> Does the word 'tinnitus' ring any bells?
<LOL!> Twice! Once as the answer to the problem, and once more for the
"ring any bells" phrase.
Mine is more like a high-pitched tone .. maybe 4KHz .. all the time.
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richard
Plug the speakers into the proper jack. The only noise made by an
electronic computer is the noise from the hard drives. Sounds from the
speaker means something ain't right in the audio department.
What do you hear without speakers or headphones?
chuckcar
news:8poi26pu4bjc2viuj...@4ax.com:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:55:53 -0400, richard <mem...@newsguy.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Plug the speakers into the proper jack.
>
> Huh, really? I thought you should plug them into the wrong jack.
>
Yes, really. There's a normal speaker output *and* a headphone output on my
sound card. If I plug ear buds into the speaker output, I blow out my ear
drums when there's sound coming out and get white noise otherwise.
something that could easily be called like water.
In addition pluging the wrong plug into the sound card is by *far* the
most common problem people have with their sound card.
You *really* don't know shit do you?
--
(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )
richard
Bless you kind sir for that cheap shot at evan.
Big 666
>
> Does the word 'tinnitus' ring any bells?
>
> :-)
>
You can't even get a lapdog's response (Troubles) from the poster you're
posting to 99.9% of the time. The only thing you're good at is a lot of
worthless lip service and even that's suspect.
(Troubles).... You worthless lapdog you are not worth anything.
nobody >
Standard litany:
More info needed... like what model name, model number of your craptop.
I hate to sound like CluckCar, but it's worth a try to check on the
sound (card/chipset/whatever yah wanna callit) driver.
Win7's still catching a few manufacturers by surprise. They put in
*their* Vista and/or XP driver and it doesn't work as well as the
so-called "native M$ driver in Win7.
Toshiba doesn't make their own sound sections on their laptops. It's
either in the chipset (Intel; AMD/ATI; or nVidia) or a separate chip on
the mobo (Realtek predominately). It's not uncommon for the "end
manufacturer" like Tosh to write their own driver optimised for Vista
and/or XP, when the bare-bones driver provided by the chipset or
audiochip manufacturer to M$ to be used as the "native M$ driver" for
Win7 to be better.
I hate pimping M$ drivers; but they did do some severe homework on
getting them right in Win7. 7 so far seems to be the FIRST M$ OS to come
close to perfect in "SP Zero" form.
Alec Lourmier
wrote:
>The only noise made by an
>electronic computer is the noise from the hard drives.
Nah. Ever heard capacitor squeal?
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joevan
<ev...@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:16:10 -0400, richard <mem...@newsguy.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Bless you kind sir for that cheap shot at evan.
>
>Except it was totally incorrect, and you wouldn't know it because
>you're too st00pid.
You are so right there. I think chucktard and rTS are from the same
mold.
And no one seems to be able to leave this thread alone. I thanked Mike
Eater for giving me an idea. As I said it was some of the checked
enhancements under the realtek high tec audio controller. I unchecked
them and all is still well. No more strange noises.
Meat Plow
LOL
Aardvark
Eye thang yaw!
nobody >
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:55:53 -0400, richard<mem...@newsguy.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The only noise made by an
>> electronic computer is the noise from the hard drives.
>
> Nah. Ever heard capacitor squeal?
>
Or the flyback squeal on a CRT monitor?