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re: "Chord" wav sound, for no reason? Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 7:38 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) DTX wrote: |I use ME and lately, for SOME reason... anywhere from ten to sixty seconds after |I start up the pc, the thing makes the alert sound. I went through my folder until |I found the name of the sound so ya'll would know what I'm meaning: "Chord.wav", |THAT sound. It's annoying as heck and I can't think of WHY it might be doing it!!! Well all these types of sound are linked to different functions or problems. Open Control Panel - Sounds and each sound will be related to problem. My Chord.wav is related to Critical Stop which is what is happening to you. Do you get any other error message saying what the error is? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "Chord" wav sound, for no reason? Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 9:10 am Posted by DTX (2 messages posted) You've hit the problem exactly. There is no error message whatsoever. No popup boxes, no codes, nothing. Nothing changes, nothing happens, no indications at all that something might be wrong. Just that annoying sound, one time. I understand that it is an IMPORTANT annoying sound, and I understand that it's related to some manner of critical error. Everytime that I've heard it over these last six or seven years of running the pc on WinME, it's meant SOMETHING and it's always told me what it means, before. But there's just the sound. NO REASON GIVEN and I haven't started running anything yet, no email, no browser, no nothing. There's nothing that stops working because there's nothing RUNNING yet, and nothing malfunctions when I DO start it... it seems to have nothing to do with anything at all haha. Isn't that weird? I searched and found no references to it here or anywhere else. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "Chord" wav sound, for no reason? Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 5:16 pm Posted by dougdeep (14 messages posted) You might also want to try checking the fault log. Go to Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Information and then pick Fault Log from the Tools drop down. The newest entries are at the bottom and most of the information is geared towards programmers but you might find the name of a misbehaving program here with a time stamp. If that doesn't turn up a clue, you can start the Dr.Watson debug program (also in the Tools menu of System Information). This program is supposed to trap errors in running programs and log them if it is running when the problem occurs. To get Dr.Watson to start when you boot up just put DRWATSON.EXE in your startup folder. Again, most of the information this produces is not going to be very usable but it should point to the bad application. Best of luck. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "Chord" wav sound, for no reason? Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 10:28 pm Posted by 5150BOT (1 messages posted) Hey Gents, Hope no one minds to much Im posting this but to be clear Im on windows XP sp3, but I wanted to add my lil experience I just recently had (like 3 days ago) didnt notice alot of replies so... I had to reactivate my windows and I've had that same symptom anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes after winxp is fully loaded out of nowhere with no visual recognition the chord.wav sounds off. I will repost when I find out what it was BTW did you find out what is was yet? On Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 5:16 pm, dougdeep wrote: >You might also want to try checking the fault log. Go to Start/Programs/Accessories/System >Tools/System Information and then pick Fault Log from the Tools drop down. The newest >entries are at the bottom and most of the information is geared towards programmers >but you might find the name of a misbehaving program here with a time stamp. > >If that doesn't turn up a clue, you can start the Dr.Watson debug program (also in >the Tools menu of System Information). This program is supposed to trap errors in >running programs and log them if it is running when the problem occurs. To get Dr.Watson >to start when you boot up just put DRWATSON.EXE in your startup folder. Again, most >of the information this produces is not going to be very usable but it should point >to the bad application. > >Best of luck. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "Chord" wav sound, for no reason? Friday, February 25, 2011 at 2:33 am Posted by kevin (1 messages posted) Hi, my computer just started playing the chord.wav for no reason, or what I assume to be that sound. Anyways yes, it's the stupid sound you hear when you do something wrong and make an error box pop up however, like most people say no box, no problem no nothing, just the stupid sound, and mine did it every 30 seconds lol. The Cause; I had about 8 mozzila tabs open running a movie, a flash game or 2, and several other things, plus youtube, I also have a flash cs3 program for developing flash games which has lately been making flash plugins crash and then I had to reload the page, to reload the game, and that happens when I'm not even using the program just since I got it. So yeah mozilla crashed, and when I reloaded my pages the stupid sound started happening. The Solution; Since it started happening exactly after mozilla crashed, I thought it had to be related, so if you hit control alt delete, and go to processes tab, and look for a thing called, plugin-container.exe, I really don't know anything about it other then I think its a add on for mozzila to play flashplayers/games or something, I could be wrong. Anyways, I chose to end that process because while using flash cs3 I was getting some type of plugin-container.exe errors. So if you have that in your list close out of all browsers, click end process on that and reopen browsers, bam fixed. I'm sure there is more then one way to cause this problem to occur hopefully my solution helps fix your computer though. The sound really would piss me off if I couldn't get rid of it and mines been fine since I did this so good luck. (and I'm on windows XP not ME, but I think this way would work for any windows)   [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: "Chord" wav sound, for no reason? Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 8:28 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) Welcome Kevin. Just check as I suggested above Control Panel - Sounds and check which sound plays for Error and change it or select None at the top. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum