WTF sounds?

[Eisa]

Sooooo...my dad let me buy his "old" computer--and a good thing, too, since the hard drive on mine died. [Still need to try and see if I can recover anything off it...hello procrastination...] ANYWAYS. It has Windows 7 on it, and I frequently get confused over wtf it's doing, because I'm so used to XP. [And prefer XP, for that mater.]

Anyway. Lately, when I've been on the Internet [although not downloading anything or doing anything like that!], it keeps playing 2 sounds. Like Duh-DUH...DUH-duh. I finally looked this up in the sound schemes and just went through all the sounds and tested them.

It's the "hardware insert" sound, followed immediately by the "hardware remove" sound.

I'm not inserting or removing anything! WTF is it doing? I don't know that I should just turn the whole sound scheme off and say fuck it because what if I actually need to pay attention to this. I don't think it's anything to do with bad stuff, although it could be. I have PC-Cillin on this computer [oh, I will miss it when it expires... ], and it's pretty good. But maybe it is something bad? Or just something...stupid? I don't know.

Help? It's not like a huge pressing problem, but the two sounds are immensely annoying.

[emax4]

I'm more of a Mac guy, but even with you duh-DUH and DUh-duh sounds, I knew what you were talking about

Are you sure that it happens only when you're using a browser? Try booting in safe mode w/ and w/o networking and then use the browser. See if you notice that same hardware connect and disconnect sounds. Did your dad say why he was selling his computer? Maybe he couldn't take the constant sounds and was too afraid to ask for help. I know some people like that.

[bankworking]

My laptop makes that noise when I plug in or unplug my mouse or 19-key pad to one of the USB ports. I can see that being really annoying if it just did it randomly. Do you have any connections that are loose so that the computer thinks it's being unplugged every time it is jostled or something? Only thing I can think of, but then I'm not a computer girl.

[Geek King]

Another possible: I've noticed some computers do that for USB flash drives/exterior drives even when the drive is already plugged in prior to boot up.

[Eisa]

I don't think my dad would just foist it off on me lol, he's a pretty tech-savvy person and even though he's not quite as good with laptops, I think he'd still figure it out. I mean...he can rebuild a desktop.

I kind of wonder if it's the mouse or something--I have a wireless mouse that connects via a little USB thing, and I'm sure it gets joggled sometimes...anything else, I'm not sure. I don't really SEE anything else, unless perhaps the D drive is loose or something, maybe?

I'll have to ask him tomorrow if it ever did it with him, and try to not be on the Internet for once. It doesn't do it constantly, it's kind of random. But I'm on the same sites every day, really, so that's why it puzzles me. I wondered if it was Adventure Quest, but I can have that up all day and it doesn't do that, so...hmm.

[Fire_on_High]

Check for a mouse or keyboard that's becoming disconnected for some reason. Mine does this very often...the keyboard's got a problem with the cable and if it's moved...there it goes. Quick and dirty solution has been to tape the first 4" of the cable firmly to the edge, which buys about a week's worth of obedient behaviour before it loosens.