Computer Problem...

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Could be a short, bad audio device or speakers

This link looks old so I don't know if it helps
http://www.pcguide.com/vb/archive/in...p/t-10693.html

It's not popping though. It literally a burp or belch noise. I'm pretty sure shorts don't cause that.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by jfrog

It's not popping though. It literally a burp or belch noise. I'm pretty sure shorts don't cause that.

I found this, two posts from a forum
Ok, I had this problem as well and I believe that after catching the software culprit in the act (luckily is played a bit too long once) I think I have the solution!

Problem: Random sound clips and burst were playing. I would hear explosions, cars, etc... random movie ads like "the blah blah pay-per-view" etc. Just random sound in general. I also heard a "Hello" at one point.

Solution:
The problem is a combination of "perfs.exe" and "indt2.sys" that are infecting your system. The thing actually playing the sound is "indt2.sys". If you open the Windows Task Manager and find it, watch and be patient. When a sound comes it will jump from like 2-3MB of Ram to over 20+MB. Additionally if you sort by memory use it you will see it is the only process that has a memory spike when one of the random sounds comes across your computer. I actually found this out by accident and after waiting a bit saw this seemed to be the problem.

Although I'm not really sure of the best sure-fire way to get rid of it, here is what I did and it hasn't shown back up in the task manager.

I used RegRun Reanimator (http://www.greatis.com/security/download.htm) to isolate the perfs.exe file for removal. It took a few tries to get reanimator to find it, but eventually it did. I then had it remove it at the next boot. I had previously patched my registry to allow the "Take Control" option in vista. This allows you to take control of a system file and delete it. I found the registry patch here (http://www.askvg.com/add-take-owners...windows-vista/). When my computer rebooted I navigated as fast as possible to C:\Windows\System32 and found the Indt2.sys file. I right clicked it, took control of it and deleted it. The sound seems to have stopped now.

Brief rundown of steps:

1) Make sure Vista "Take Control" is enabled by patching registry.
2) Isolate prefs.exe using Regrun reanimator.
3) Have reanimator delete prefs.exe on next boot.
4) Reboot, should get message before Vista loads saying prefs.exe was deleted.
5) Navigate to C:\Windows\System32
6) "Take Control" of Indt2.sys by right clicking and selecting "Take Control"
7) Delete Indt2.sys
8) Empty the recycle bin to flush that nasty file away.

Your annoying sounds should be gone after that. ^_^
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I too have had this same problem for a while. I don't know where I picked it up. To clarify, the file in question is PERFS.exe , not prefs.exe , and it's located in Windows\System32\ . I used Reanimator to "Terminate" the file, and am about to reboot and then delete Indt2.sys .

I have noticed that this message was posted in November '07 and we're in June of '08 , and my Norton antivirus, Adaware, and Windows Defender all are completely up to date, all have been run repeatedly and NONE found this virus and fixed it. Every program found my computer to be "clean" when clearly it was not.

When is Microsoft going to pick up on this? How about Symantec/Norton? I hope this manual fix works...

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by jfrog

It's not popping though. It literally a burp or belch noise. I'm pretty sure shorts don't cause that.

If it's not an errant VOIP issue (if you don't use a VOIP like Skype, etc) and if you're certain it's not a "short" related problem as Praxiamatus looked into...

... then I think the next step (if the sounds are even REAL) is a bit tedious. Open your Control Panel and look through all of the Windows sounds (Sounds and Events in XP, whatever) that are set for specific events. There might be a "burp" sound that was associated with some odd "Theme" from the past that got stuck in the settings. Every time you hit an End Stop or some other "Event" the "burp" belches. Change the setting or delete "burp.mp3" or whatever the sound file might be.

If that's not it, turn off your speakers. Problem solved.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by pelathais

If it's not an errant VOIP issue (if you don't use a VOIP like Skype, etc) and if you're certain it's not a "short" related problem as Praxiamatus looked into...

... then I think the next step (if the sounds are even REAL) is a bit tedious. Open your Control Panel and look through all of the Windows sounds (Sounds and Events in XP, whatever) that are set for specific events. There might be a "burp" sound that was associated with some odd "Theme" from the past that got stuck in the settings. Every time you hit an End Stop or some other "Event" the "burp" belches. Change the setting or delete "burp.mp3" or whatever the sound file might be.

If that's not it, turn off your speakers. Problem solved.

lol I thought about that, could be FF is blocking a popup and that is a notification sound, but unless he made that change then Id look into some sort of spyware or virus

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

lol I thought about that, could be FF is blocking a popup and that is a notification sound, but unless he made that change then Id look into some sort of spyware or virus

Of course "he made that change." It's a burp and he's a frog.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Of course "he made that change." It's a burp and he's a frog.

lol. that reminds me when I used to do IRChat on a network called Dalnet. You had to use a client. There are some pretty neat clients out there. If someone with a client had the same sound set on their PC you could literally make them play on that other persons PC. We would rip sounds from the old version of War Craft, we had sound files like ak 47s. It was funny