Error sound with nothing happening

[ApolloXIII]

I get an error sound like "da dum" every few seconds, unpredictably, but reliably. I dont get any warnings or visual confirmation of any kind, nothing freezes or changes. I checked event logs but didnt find anything, I have no idea what is causing windows to make the sound, nor do I know exactly when it started. has anyone had a similar problem, or have any ideas?
Oh yea, when i view device manager, it constantly refreshes, and there is one "other devices" but i cant figure out what it is, and the sound continues when it is disabled. previous install of win 7 didnt have this problem.
help appreciated.
Thanks in advance

 

[Captain Zero]

My suggestion would be to unplug any/all USB devices and see if that corrects the problem. In the meantime, you could always disable the notification sound.

 

[ApolloXIII]

yes, ive unplugged all devices, stilll happening

 

[jfar]

This might sound stupid but, are you sure it is not a new email arriving in your mail box,because mine gives me a "da dum ", just a suggestion?

 

[ApolloXIII]

no, its not, I dont have any email setup. nor did i do anything different with regards to email last installation

 

[Mark]

Same here, I get that sound from Messenger every time I get Mail.

 

[ApolloXIII]

I dont have any messengers, outlook or mail clients installed. im not sure, but i think it goes away when I play a game.

 

[jfar]

Have you got a webcam connected to your PC.?

 

[ConstableZA]

Hi Guys

Anybody found a cause / fix for this yet? I'm having the exact same symptoms and for the life of me cannot figure out what the cause is.

Just to elaborate a little, the "da dum" is the same notification sound that you receive whenever you unplug a USB device.

My gut says that it may be a driver issue with some embedded hardware, for example my fingerprint reader or the built in webcam - so Windows is somehow notifying me that one of these devices is being "plugged in and unplugged" all the time, if you know what I mean..... But I still haven't figured out a way to confirm this.

I'm running Windows 7 on my HP Pavilion tx 2500 tablet and this is the first issue I have had. Well, more of an annoyance than an issue.

Thanks in advance for any input.

Cheers

T-Man

 

[swarfega]

Would you happen to have a dirty keyboard with a sticky key?

 

[ConstableZA]

Uh, no. Like I said, its the same sound/notification you would receive when unplugging a USB device. Its not at all similar to the error sound made when a key is held down.

 

[Anthony]

Look in device manager see if you can catch it expanding the device tree.

 

[ConstableZA]

Think we're onto something here.....

Spot on. Seems like its my Fingerprint Sensor.

Its an Authen Tec AES1610. Not sure what my next step is here, but I'm gonna start by trying to install some drivers that didn't arrive via Windows Update.

Went to Authentec's site and they have some Windows 7 specific software that I'm gonna try. Not sure if it includes Device Drivers, but its as good a place to start as any......

 

[Anthony]

Might have better results if you do it in safe mode. (will stop that driver keep loading/unloading) :huh:

 

[DrGabriel]

It is a hardware issue

HP tx tablets and possibly other HP laptops have some sort of problem with windows 7 so far. Probably because HP engineers designed the hardware to specifically work only with MS as opposed to designing it to just work regardless of the operating system. That is why it was more than a year before it was possible to install any debian based linux system on it. (i.e. ubuntu).


On a tx 2500 I have the same issue but all of my devices are accounted for in the device manager, so it must be from some bit of hardware. I suspect whatever controls the keyboard, sound buttons, or other keys which were notorious for not working properly on other OS's. I've updated the drivers but no luck yet. This is probably something HP is going to have to fix by updating their drivers.


As a side note to some of you with not so clever banners: Windows bashing is stupid in general but doing so on this forum is especially so.

 

[Kuro]

I am having the same problem on a HP TouchSmart tablet. It seems I made a bad choice for compatability.

 

[Nikker]

That thing started happening to me as well.

I font have a hewlet packard, I have a dell computer. I restarted it, shut it down, close all of the programs and it still keeps on happening.

DUN!!!!



DUN!!!!


DUN!!!

Please help.

 

[cicinh0]

Resolved

i had the same problem , but i found in the upper left side of my desktop a file i hardly seen it but when i clicked on it the sound stoped . Maybe some of you have the same "it was a *.xml file i hope i can help

 

[Nikker]

Hey guys, I have been having the same problem for a long long time.

It stoped but only temporarily. And now its back.

No USB devices, no webcam not nothing at all. No sticky keys, just started the Lapotop up, its a Dell btw.

Please help.