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Haunted Laptop Speakers?

IrohIroh Registered User regular
edited June 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
This is a tough one to explain, but I'll give it my best shot.

I have a notebook computer that is prone to playing strange sounds by itself every now and then. Just now I heard an advertisement for movie extra casting, and I've been woken up before to music that I don't even have on my hard drive.

I've done all the regular spyware scans with Spybot and Ad-Aware, so I'm starting to think it's interference over my WiFi network or something.

If anybody can grant any insight on this one, I would appreciate it.

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  • SushisourceSushisource Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Sometimes poorly shielded speakers can pick up radio interference, that sounds like what is happening here.

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  • RecklessReckless Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Sushisource wrote: »
    Sometimes poorly shielded speakers can pick up radio interference, that sounds like what is happening here.

    Bingo. I occasionally pick up my campus radio station when my speakers are on but I'm not playing anything.

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  • dispatch.odispatch.o Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I used to pick up air traffic control signals... at like 3am. It was kind of odd the first time it happened.

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  • DarthJerDarthJer Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    My speakers do it all the time. Random radio stations and never the good ones. Smoooth Jazz. Es muy lame.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I think this started happening to my GF's alarm clock radio not long ago. Basically she freaked out and bought a new one. I told her to harden up and deal with her ghost-radio, but that didn't work. I guess being woken up sporadically by random crackling and fuzzing sounds in the night isn't so great.

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  • Eat_FireEat_Fire Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Cellphone transmissions will mess up speakers too, an easy way to check this is to sit by your laptop and send a text message. These come across as a series of beeps.

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    OK, this just happened to me. I'm browsing Penny Arcade, a couple of Wikipedia pages were open, and my computer is playing Ode To Joy. I don't have it on my computer at all, and it's been going for a few minutes. I can mute it, change the volume... it's a little bit weird.

    Is this what you're talking about? It's a laptop, incidentally.

    Edit: Nevermind, a youtube video on one of my pages automatically started playing, for some reason, about 8 minutes before I got to the part of the page it was on. Weird, but less so.

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  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    if something near you is using a long radio signal of some type the speakers can make noise even if the computer is off.

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