Strange Sound Problem

goldfish1 · 08-24-2007, 02:27 PM

I have a Toshiba Satellite A85 laptop. About a week ago, I had the RAM upgraded to 1 GB. A friend of mine who is the IT at a company did the work for me and everything was fine. I used it a few times and the computer was extremely fast and wonderful. Well, the other day I opened the lid and started it up and right as I started it up a LOUD humming noise began emitting from my speakers. I am positive it is not the fan because I have a volume knob on the outside of my computer and when I turn it up or down it changes which speaker the humming comes from. Also when I tried to play any sort of music it was barely audible. I turned the computer completely off and left it and tried to use it the next day, but it did the same thing. I tried to take it to the local computer guy who fixed another of our computer but he said basically he did not want to work on it. So I was wondering if anyone had ever heard of a problem like this and what might be the cause. I have had the computer for almost 3 years and have not had any problems with it and also is not covered by the warranty.

dai · 08-24-2007, 04:53 PM

in the device manager click on view at the top and then click show hidden devices
see if there is any yellow alongside of anything

08-24-2007, 02:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
goldfish1 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1 OS: Windows XP	Strange Sound Problem I have a Toshiba Satellite A85 laptop. About a week ago, I had the RAM upgraded to 1 GB. A friend of mine who is the IT at a company did the work for me and everything was fine. I used it a few times and the computer was extremely fast and wonderful. Well, the other day I opened the lid and started it up and right as I started it up a LOUD humming noise began emitting from my speakers. I am positive it is not the fan because I have a volume knob on the outside of my computer and when I turn it up or down it changes which speaker the humming comes from. Also when I tried to play any sort of music it was barely audible. I turned the computer completely off and left it and tried to use it the next day, but it did the same thing. I tried to take it to the local computer guy who fixed another of our computer but he said basically he did not want to work on it. So I was wondering if anyone had ever heard of a problem like this and what might be the cause. I have had the computer for almost 3 years and have not had any problems with it and also is not covered by the warranty.

08-24-2007, 04:53 PM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,267 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	Re: Strange Sound Problem in the device manager click on view at the top and then click show hidden devices see if there is any yellow alongside of anything __________________