It sounds like the floopy drive's IRQ is being shared with the sound card? Just on a guess. > -----Original Message----- > From: mswindowsxp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:mswindowsxp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ted Cotton > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 9:19 PM > To: mswindowsxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [mswindowsxp] Windows StartUp Music. > > > Hi, all. > Re. my intermittent Wake Up saga: > > Last Thursday the icons suddenly disappeared from my desktop > and the machine froze. I rebooted and after POST got the > message that the boot disk was corrupt. As this machine is > still under warranty I took it back to the shop and suggested > a replacement Mainboard. This was done and now everything is > running sweetly without any intermittent switch-ons, so far. > Many thanks to Joe, Jim, Thomas and John for pointing me in > the right direction. > > After downloading and installing all the MS System updates > when I first bought this computer, my Windows Start-Up music > became broken and distorted. According to a memo from MS > there was no "Workaround" for this common problem and their > suggestion was to turn off the sound, which I did. The > technician must have switched the sound back on when he > replaced the Mainboard because when I started my computer up > yesterday morning the Start-Up music played perfectly without > a blemish. However, I discovered this morning that my floppy > drive was not working and found that the connecting lead was > too short and not allowing a plug to seat correctly. > Replacing with a longer lead fixed this, but stuffed up my > start-music again! > > Could this be a big clue for isolating the MS Windows Update > that is conflicting with the Start Up music? > > Kind Regards, > > Ted. > ---- > > > > > > > > ================================== > To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation > mode or view archives use the below link. > http://thethin.net/winxplist.cfm ================================== To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/winxplist.cfm