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Re: Loud beep even when mute is on.
One more note: stopping the "beep" driver (?) under Non-Plug and Play
drivers in Device Manager (with View, Show hidden devices selected), solves
the issue, while not disabling normal windows beeps.
I assume I can safely disable the Beep driver. I don't know whether this a
bug in Vista or SigmaTel, or both, or who provides the beep driver.
"Tech_vs_Life" <limited@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:97B6ABB5-2007-40DD-8BCF-2CB79B67E031@microsoft.com...
> On 32-bit Vista ultimate, I have an audio problem--and I'm not sure if
> it's hardware related or driver-related. With a Dell Latitude D820 laptop
> (Intel 945P chipset), I get an extremely loud beep (and volume or mute has
> no effect on it), every time I move from one item to another item but only
> on a few specific types of lists:
> for example, the list of drives under:
> Programs, Administrative tools, computer management, storage, Disk
> management.
> or the list of items in pcanywhere host or remote screens.
>
> (but no beep when navigating files in windows explorer, or most other
> places).
>
> The only way to get rid of the beep that I've discovered is to stop the
> Windows Audio service--but that has the side-effect of disabling ALL sound
> and audio from the system.
>
> Any suggestions on what to do, or what might be the cause?
>
> I've tried reinstalling the SigmaTel audio drivers from dell
> (6.10.0.5343), but no change. I tried newer drivers that seemed to be
> compatible from Intel's website but they didn't install ("device object
> not found" message, or "wrong driver" message).
>
>
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