New annoying sound

[Old.Professor]

After recent security updates my computer has started making an
annoying sound "oopt-eee" at random times. I verified that its coming
through the sound system by turning sound off for a day. I turned
sound back on and set Sound and Audio Devices>Sounds tab>sound scheme
to No Sounds. That didn't help. What else should I try?

 

[JS]

Download and install the latest sound card/chip driver for your computer
from the PC manufacture's or Motherboard's web site.
If you installed a Sound Driver from Microsoft's web site, that is most
likely the problem.
Never use Microsoft supplied drivers from their update site, to often they
cause problems.

If you are unsure as to what type of sound card you have then download
Belarc Advisor as it will
report what hardware (including sound card/chip) you have.
Belarc Advisor: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

JS

 

[db ´¯`·.. >]

cannot capitulate the
sound of oopt-eee.

isn't that the little
saying when a baby
messes in a diaper...

[ you oopt-eee again?!]

--

<)))º>·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º>

..

 

[Richard Schafer]

Actually, fwiw, you describe a mystery problem I have had with my
computer some time... randomly occurring sound that could be described
as "oopt-eee" ... have yet to figure it out... I will be interested in
ideas that are posted here... (you are not alone!)

R.

=============On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:38:26 -0800 (PST), "Old.Professor"

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
I'll bet it's not really random, although it may be connected to a program
running in the background. When people report a new sound connected to
Internet Explorer, it's usually a third-party program blocking a pop-up
window or a cookie. Is IE open but minimized? Is Outlook Express checking
for new mail while minimized?

Take a look at the programs you have loading at startup from MSCONFIG>
Startup and any of those programs in the Notification Area which people
install and forget about.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

 

[Richard Schafer]

Thanx, Don, but I've investigated all that... IE does not have to be
running for the mystery sound to occur... only clue is that when it
does, if usually repeats a few seconds later...

which I could record it, but I don't know when it will occur... for me
it's every few days...

R.

========On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:44:39 -0600, "Don Varnau"

Hi,
I'll bet it's not really random, although it may be connected to a program
running in the background. When people report a new sound connected to
Internet Explorer, it's usually a third-party program blocking a pop-up
window or a cookie. Is IE open but minimized? Is Outlook Express checking
for new mail while minimized?

Take a look at the programs you have loading at startup from MSCONFIG>
Startup and any of those programs in the Notification Area which people
install and forget about.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

After recent security updates my computer has started making an
annoying sound "oopt-eee" at random times. I verified that its coming
through the sound system by turning sound off for a day. I turned
sound back on and set Sound and Audio Devices>Sounds tab>sound scheme
to No Sounds. That didn't help. What else should I try?

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

I would guess you are hearing the 'internal speaker' making the default
sound for an error, and that error is probably a sound card driver error. If
you can disconnect your regular speakers, you would find out if it is the
internal speaker soon enough.
If so, I would remover the sound driver in device manager, and restart.
Go to Start/Run, and type DEVMGMT.MSC , highlight all the sound devices,
Action menu, "Uninstall", then restart Windows, to find the device drivers
again automatically.
--
Mark L. Ferguson
e-mail subject line must include "QZ" or it's deleted
..

Thanx, Don, but I've investigated all that... IE does not have to be
running for the mystery sound to occur... only clue is that when it
does, if usually repeats a few seconds later...

which I could record it, but I don't know when it will occur... for me
it's every few days...

R.

========On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:44:39 -0600, "Don Varnau"

Hi,
I'll bet it's not really random, although it may be connected to a program
running in the background. When people report a new sound connected to
Internet Explorer, it's usually a third-party program blocking a pop-up
window or a cookie. Is IE open but minimized? Is Outlook Express checking
for new mail while minimized?

Take a look at the programs you have loading at startup from MSCONFIG>
Startup and any of those programs in the Notification Area which people
install and forget about.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

After recent security updates my computer has started making an
annoying sound "oopt-eee" at random times. I verified that its coming
through the sound system by turning sound off for a day. I turned
sound back on and set Sound and Audio Devices>Sounds tab>sound scheme
to No Sounds. That didn't help. What else should I try?

 

[db ´¯`·.. >]

perhaps monitoring the
processes that are occurring
at the time the sound is made
can be helpful.

there is a freeware
from microsoft.com
called "process monitor"

it is a task manager on
steroids that can help
investigate the pesky
process occurring and
providing a sound
notification.

then when the sound is
made, you can simply
read the log to find which
process took priority.

i would keep process monitor
running/open during your regular
use of the pc.

a word of advice is that process
monitor can become rather
complex if the "show registry"
and "show file" buttons are
enabled as well as the "show
process".

it has other features as well,
but i am not familiar with them.

let us know.

--

<)))º>·´¯`·.¸. , . .·´¯`·.. ><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º>

..

Thanx, Don, but I've investigated all that... IE does not have to be
running for the mystery sound to occur... only clue is that when it
does, if usually repeats a few seconds later...

which I could record it, but I don't know when it will occur... for me
it's every few days...

R.

========On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:44:39 -0600, "Don Varnau"

Hi,
I'll bet it's not really random, although it may be connected to a program
running in the background. When people report a new sound connected to
Internet Explorer, it's usually a third-party program blocking a pop-up
window or a cookie. Is IE open but minimized? Is Outlook Express checking
for new mail while minimized?

Take a look at the programs you have loading at startup from MSCONFIG>
Startup and any of those programs in the Notification Area which people
install and forget about.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

After recent security updates my computer has started making an
annoying sound "oopt-eee" at random times. I verified that its coming
through the sound system by turning sound off for a day. I turned
sound back on and set Sound and Audio Devices>Sounds tab>sound scheme
to No Sounds. That didn't help. What else should I try?

 

[Elmo]

Thanx, Don, but I've investigated all that... IE does not have to be
running for the mystery sound to occur... only clue is that when it
does, if usually repeats a few seconds later...

which I could record it, but I don't know when it will occur... for me
it's every few days...

R.

========On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:44:39 -0600, "Don Varnau"

Hi,
I'll bet it's not really random, although it may be connected to a program
running in the background. When people report a new sound connected to
Internet Explorer, it's usually a third-party program blocking a pop-up
window or a cookie. Is IE open but minimized? Is Outlook Express checking
for new mail while minimized?

Take a look at the programs you have loading at startup from MSCONFIG>
Startup and any of those programs in the Notification Area which people
install and forget about.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

After recent security updates my computer has started making an
annoying sound "oopt-eee" at random times. I verified that its coming
through the sound system by turning sound off for a day. I turned
sound back on and set Sound and Audio Devices>Sounds tab>sound scheme
to No Sounds. That didn't help. What else should I try?

Do a search for all wave files: *.wav and then listen to each one. The
folder that the file is found in might give you a hint to what program
is doing this.

When it happened to my brother's computer, it was the UPS.. no
"oopt-eee" though.

 

[Richard Schafer]

Lots of interesting ideas here... keep 'em coming... I had already
listened to tons of wav files, but can't find the sound in question...
I do have a UPS, but don't think I have any software installed in
connecion with it... somehow I think this is making its way to my
machine via the internet... I wll look into the process monitor
mentioned in one of the posts... Thanx...

==================On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:11:30 -0500, Elmo

Thanx, Don, but I've investigated all that... IE does not have to be
running for the mystery sound to occur... only clue is that when it
does, if usually repeats a few seconds later...

which I could record it, but I don't know when it will occur... for me
it's every few days...

R.

========On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:44:39 -0600, "Don Varnau"

Hi,
I'll bet it's not really random, although it may be connected to a program
running in the background. When people report a new sound connected to
Internet Explorer, it's usually a third-party program blocking a pop-up
window or a cookie. Is IE open but minimized? Is Outlook Express checking
for new mail while minimized?

Take a look at the programs you have loading at startup from MSCONFIG>
Startup and any of those programs in the Notification Area which people
install and forget about.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

After recent security updates my computer has started making an
annoying sound "oopt-eee" at random times. I verified that its coming
through the sound system by turning sound off for a day. I turned
sound back on and set Sound and Audio Devices>Sounds tab>sound scheme
to No Sounds. That didn't help. What else should I try?

Do a search for all wave files: *.wav and then listen to each one. The
folder that the file is found in might give you a hint to what program
is doing this.

When it happened to my brother's computer, it was the UPS.. no
"oopt-eee" though.

 

[Swifty]

perhaps monitoring the processes that are occurring at the time the
sound is made can be helpful.

I have a program I wrote called "recent" which lists all files that have
been referenced recently. It needs an NTFS (or similar filesystem) that
records access times. It could be used (or modified) to scan for
recently referenced WAV files (and similar stuff). This might help
identify the location of the file containing the sound, and that might
identify the component causing it.

 

[Richard Schafer]

I am interested in the program "recent" you mentioned, but can't find
it on the links in your post... may I ask where I can get it?

Thanx... R.

===============On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:13:50 +0000, Swifty

 

[John John]

Get the SysInternal Filemon/Process Monitor utility and you will be able
to find out wich file and process is responsilbe for the noise. With
Filemon you can filter out uneeded information, for example you could
tell it to only monitor for *.wav files, that will make it easier to
find the offending file.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896642.aspx

John

 

[Richard Schafer]

Thanks, John John... I (with the help of yours and other's posts) will
get to the bottom of this mystery...

R.

=============On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:07:36 -0400, John John

 

[Swifty]

I am interested in the program "recent" you mentioned, but can't find
it on the links in your post... may I ask where I can get it?

I can send it to you, or I can put it on one of my websites, but it's
written in REXX so you'd need to install Open Object Rexx in order to
use it. This seems a sledgehammer to crack a nut frankly, and explains
why I didn't offer it up front - I was hoping to tempt someone else to
come out of the woodwork saying "there's a much easier way to do that".

 

[Swifty]

I am interested in the program "recent" you mentioned, but can't find
it on the links in your post... may I ask where I can get it?

Try http://swiftys.org.uk/cgi-bin/recent.rex
I'll help with this, but that might be enough.

 

[theblackbear]

I just started a similar thread, though in my case the sounds are clearly
attached to events. There are three sounds. I get a loud pop, like the sound
you get when you slap your hand onto your open mouth, when I copy a file,
document, or text. I get a downward inflected howl, which may be the oopt-eee
being discussed in this thread, when I paste a file, document or text. And I
get a boing noise when I close a Web page, file or document. Not only have I
listened to every .wav file on my drive, I've deleted every Windows sound
file on my computer as well and the problem continues. I've had this on two
Windows machines, through a total of five fresh installs of Windows. When I
forget the volume is up after listening to music and get one of these sounds
I want to put a bullet in the bloody thing.
--
theblackbear

Thanx, Don, but I've investigated all that... IE does not have to be
running for the mystery sound to occur... only clue is that when it
does, if usually repeats a few seconds later...

which I could record it, but I don't know when it will occur... for me
it's every few days...

R.

========On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:44:39 -0600, "Don Varnau"

Hi,
I'll bet it's not really random, although it may be connected to a program
running in the background. When people report a new sound connected to
Internet Explorer, it's usually a third-party program blocking a pop-up
window or a cookie. Is IE open but minimized? Is Outlook Express checking
for new mail while minimized?

Take a look at the programs you have loading at startup from MSCONFIG>
Startup and any of those programs in the Notification Area which people
install and forget about.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

After recent security updates my computer has started making an
annoying sound "oopt-eee" at random times. I verified that its coming
through the sound system by turning sound off for a day. I turned
sound back on and set Sound and Audio Devices>Sounds tab>sound scheme
to No Sounds. That didn't help. What else should I try?

Do a search for all wave files: *.wav and then listen to each one. The
folder that the file is found in might give you a hint to what program
is doing this.

When it happened to my brother's computer, it was the UPS.. no
"oopt-eee" though.

 

[Swifty]

When I forget the volume is up after listening to music and get one
of these sounds I want to put a bullet in the bloody thing.

I wish I could help, but I have no idea how to proceed.

What you need is my (unfortunately not patented) styrofoam PC mallet. It
is a huge styrofoam mallet with which you can beat the living **** out
of your PC when it misbehaves, without inflicting any costly damage.
I've tried to persuade PC world to develop and market the product, but
they're smothering my suggestion with indifference.

There, the ideas is in the public domain, so non-patentable, for any
entrepreneur with the wit to make them.