Warbling sound on startup

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My laptop is runs with XP Pro and has started to play a warbling version of
the Windows XP Startup file during boot up. Once the machine is up &
running, the Windows XP Startup.wav file plays perfectly with Windows Media
Player and RealPlayer.

I'm wondering if it's a Norton issue.

Would appreciate any suggestions from you experts.
 
I'm wondering if it's a Norton issue.

I'm wondering if you aren't correct.

Duncan, Norton software tends to bog a system down. The startup axis is
particularly vulnerable to this, and what you are seeing (or rather hearing)
is pretty typical of a system that is bogging down during the system
initialization. Sound is a low priority at that point. You can disable the
Symantec stuff and see if it resolves the issue (I suspect it will), but
more importantly is it causing issues once fully running? If not, I would
not place a great deal of emphasis on it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
My laptop is runs with XP Pro and has started to play a warbling version of
the Windows XP Startup file during boot up. Once the machine is up &
running, the Windows XP Startup.wav file plays perfectly with Windows Media
Player and RealPlayer.

I'm wondering if it's a Norton issue.

Would appreciate any suggestions from you experts.
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I have the same on two Win98 machines since I installed NOD32. It seems
the scanning that runs on boot is interfering with the sound card drivers,
but only during boot.

If you perform a clean boot, does the warbling go away? If so, it is then
a conflict during the starting sequence--Norton being a good candidate.

mikkl
 
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