Yes, my computer is making this weird water dripping, blooping sound every once and a while. I cannot associate it with a particular application or website–it is kinda irritating…except not kinda since I have it muted now.
I’ve run anti-virus and spybot to no avail.
The only way I can make this sound happen is to visit http://www.king5.com
Why is this happening and what can I do about it?
Any thoughts?
It might be the sound your anti-virus/anti-spyware makes when it stops a virus/malware from doing something.
Assuming you’re running some flavor of Windows, you can open up your Control Panel and double-click the Sounds or Sounds and Audio Devices icon. What you do next depends on which version of Windows you have; assuming it’s XP, click the Sounds tab and you’ll be able to brows through all the system events. If an event has a sound associated with it, you can click it and then hit the Play button to preview it. If it’s a system-event sound you’re hearing, you ought to be able to find it here.
I went through all the sounds–no help. The bloop does seem to be controlled by the wave volume control.
Starting to drive me batty…
So, it’s not a system event. Hmm. You said you ran Spybot, but have you updated it recently? Updates are important to catch new stuff out there. You might also want to try another spyware sweeper, like AdAware, in case it’s something Spybot doesn’t detect. The other thing you can do is download and run Hijack This (freeware) and post the generated log here. You or someone here might be able to spot something suspicious there.
Is it tied in with the yellow bar at the top of Internet Explorer? When Windows XP SP2 stops a popup, or prevents an active-X control from being downloaded, you get a yellow bar and a little bloop. That page had one, and I got the usual sound.
Go to a page where it happens and see if there’s a yellow bar at the top.
It might be your pop-up blocker. If it tends to happen when you first load web pages, that’s the best bet.
Is it maybe tied to a certain combination of keystrokes?
I have a PC laptop running Windows 2000 that bloops now and then. After having the thing for a few months (I got it as a perk of a job) I finally figured out that it goes “bloop” whenever I type “o” and “u” in quick succession. I.e., the sentence “You would scour our house” would make it bloop with every word.
This happens no matter what application I’m using: Word, Firefox, Photoshop, Quark, anything. It also happens with a few other letter combinations that aren’t as common; I think “kt” is one of them (I’m not on that machine right now or I’d figure it out).
If that’s what it is, then I can’t help you, because I’ve just had to learn to live with it; I can’t figure out why it does that. But do try to notice if you’re doing the same thing each time it happens; that’s how I at least figured out it’s a result of typing “ou.”