Sound [mute on/off going crazy]

[Guest]

I purchased new pc with XP home pre-installed. Since I have had it the volume icon in the tray seems to have a life of it's own. For no apparent reason it will start flickering really fast between mute on and mute off. This makes any audio sound like it is underwater. If you hit certain keys on the keyboard it will stop the flickering for a few seconds sometimes minutes, sometimes hours, but will then revert back to doing it...HELP IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZ

It's really annoying and I'm sure it can't be doing the performance any favours. I tried contacting the manufacturer technical support but they are no help

It is an advent PC (from PC world) running XP hom
The sound Device is Realtek AC97 Audi

Pierre

 

[David]

Try un-installing and re-installing the sound card.
Although, once I had a very similar problem and it turned out to be my
annoying, hacker-like, young nephew whom was on the internal network.
Also, check the properties in the Hardware Device manager and see that the
sound card is not having problems or resource conflicts.

I purchased new pc with XP home pre-installed. Since I have had it the

volume icon in the tray seems to have a life of it's own. For no apparent
reason it will start flickering really fast between mute on and mute off.
This makes any audio sound like it is underwater. If you hit certain keys on
the keyboard it will stop the flickering for a few seconds sometimes
minutes, sometimes hours, but will then revert back to doing it...HELP IT'S
DRIVING ME CRAZY

It's really annoying and I'm sure it can't be doing the performance any

favours. I tried contacting the manufacturer technical support but they are
no help.

 

[Guest]

Hi David

I've been into the device manager and no conflicts to be seen anywhere. What was the problem with you're Nephew because I have my pc set up with two users (me and my girlfriend) Could that be the problem and how to I go about resolving it

Pierre

 

[David]

As I stated about my hacker-like nephew, he was putting me on a local
network and reeking havoc on my system. Too limit his activity, and
maintain I-net connectivity, in my firewall I made his node innaccessible to
mine.
I did this be assigning his address (something like 192.168.2.29) to a list
of computers that were denied access on the network to/from my computer.
Also, I would try the un-install, re-install I spoke of as you did not
mention whether or not you tried this.

Hi David,

I've been into the device manager and no conflicts to be seen anywhere.

What was the problem with you're Nephew because I have my pc set up with two
users (me and my girlfriend) Could that be the problem and how to I go about
resolving it?

 

[Guest]

Hi David

Yes sorry I did re-install the sound card. I'll try and remove the second user and see what happens

Thank
Pierre

 

[JG11x8]

Red herring

The real cause of the problem - which I had recently - is actually your keyboard. Its mute button has been caught in such a way that it is as if you were continually pressing it. I guarantee that replacing the keyboard, or removing that button somehow, will do the trick.