Re: Mysterious irritating sound

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From: Ted Zieglar (teddyz_at_notmail.com)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:49:18 -0500

I see you're suffering from MBS (Mysterious Boing Syndrome). Fortunately, we
have a cure.

Go to Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Sounds tab. At the bottom
of this so-called properties *** is a window called 'Program events:'
where you'll see the sounds that have been assigned to various things that
go in your computer. As you click on each 'event' you'll see an arrowhead
pointing to the right. Click on the arrowhead to hear the sound associated
with the event. That should identify the boing.

If that doesn't help, post back and we'll try the next step. 

-- 
Ted Zieglar
"Hugh Beyer" <beyerxyzzy@acm.org> wrote in message
news:Xns95E38F0A6735Bhughrbeyeracmorg@130.133.1.4...
> I have a new Dell D600 with WinXP installed--my first experience with it.
> All is well EXCEPT that every couple of seconds it emits this sound, a
> multiple-boing on a descending scale. I can eliminate it by setting the
> sound scheme to "No Sounds" but I kind of like the lower-impact system
> sounds. Is there any way to figure out what program is making what sound?
I
> walked through the system sound control looking for this particular sound
> and it wasn't there. Any other way to deal with it?
>
>     Hugh
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