I would guess you are hearing the 'internal speaker' making the default
sound for an error, and that error is probably a sound card driver error. If
you can disconnect your regular speakers, you would find out if it is the
internal speaker soon enough.
If so, I would remover the sound driver in device manager, and restart.
Go to Start/Run, and type DEVMGMT.MSC , highlight all the sound devices,
Action menu, "Uninstall", then restart Windows, to find the device drivers
again automatically.
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"Richard Schafer" <x5x@xxx.com> wrote in message
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> Thanx, Don, but I've investigated all that... IE does not have to be
> running for the mystery sound to occur... only clue is that when it
> does, if usually repeats a few seconds later...
>
> which I could record it, but I don't know when it will occur... for me
> it's every few days...
>
> R.
>
> ========On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:44:39 -0600, "Don Varnau"
> <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote:===================
>
>>Hi,
>>I'll bet it's not really random, although it may be connected to a program
>>running in the background. When people report a new sound connected to
>>Internet Explorer, it's usually a third-party program blocking a pop-up
>>window or a cookie. Is IE open but minimized? Is Outlook Express checking
>>for new mail while minimized?
>>
>>Take a look at the programs you have loading at startup from MSCONFIG>
>>Startup and any of those programs in the Notification Area which people
>>install and forget about.
>>
>>Hope this helps,
>>Don
>>[MS MVP- IE]
>>
>>"Old.Professor" <marshallabrams@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>news:0cd3fd13-365b-440f-81c4-f6a391093411@21g2000hsj.googlegroups.com...
>>> After recent security updates my computer has started making an
>>> annoying sound "oopt-eee" at random times. I verified that its coming
>>> through the sound system by turning sound off for a day. I turned
>>> sound back on and set Sound and Audio Devices>Sounds tab>sound scheme
>>> to No Sounds. That didn't help. What else should I try?
>