[mswindowsxp] Re: Windows StartUp Music.

  • From: "Serdar Yegulalp" <thegline@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mswindowsxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 21:50:09 -0500

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.
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