I hear error sounds when I shut down and my laptop

[Guest]

When my laptop goes to sleep (close the cover) and later when it wakes up, I
hear one or more of the Vista "error sounds" indicating that something went
wrong. Of course, they're not accompanied by any sort of error dialog so I
have no idea what could be causing them. I've looked at the event logs, but
it's hard to say which events could correspond to the sounds. This is not a
functional problem--the laptop continues to work--but it is definitely a
fit-and-finish issue and it's quite disconcerting.

Any advice for figuring out what might be causing them would be greatly
appreciated...

 

[R. McCarty]

I'd go to the Sounds applet in Control Panel. Use the Sounds (TAB)
and from the Program window test the sounds to determine/match
what you hear with the system hibernating/waking up. If I had to guess
I would speculate it's the "Device Connect/Disconnect" sounds.

 

[Guest]

Yes, you're absolutely correct. I should have thought of that--I guess the
sound is more "urgent" sounding to me.

That being said, I don't have any USB devices or other peripherals attached,
what devices might be causing this? I don't want to turn the notifications
off, but it is *really* irritating.

Thanks!

Ryan

 

[R. McCarty]

It's likely your Networking devices. My Sony Vaio notebook runs Vista
but I disable Sound Schemes, so I've not heard the notifications for the
connect/disconnect. Power savings and settings is moderately complicated
and is very vendor specific as to how it's setup and configured. I would
visit the Vendor's Forums and see if others have the same issue. Also, I
might lower the volume slider for system notifications so the sound remains
but plays at a lower level.