my laptop's sound has a small annoying tap every second... what could that be?? i mean all the time.. its like a grandfather clock ticking.... i can turn it down witth the volume fine, but then ii cant hear other sounds.. any tips?

 

Throw it against the wall it will stop ticking.

 

Is it possible that the power is cycling on/off to your speakers? My ancient PowerBook 1400 does that, even when plugged in and it drive me nuts too. Plug in a set of headphones...see if it stops..:dunno:

It's a wild ass guess. h:

 

i have desktop speakers threw the headphone port hooked up.. and it does it through those and the laptop's speakers..

 

Hmm...could be a grounding issue internal to the speakers.. Do those desktop speakers continue to "pop" even when plugged into another source? This is strange...

 

well if you can actually turn the volume up and down and the clicks get louder or quieter... I'd lean more towards it could be something coming from windows that's causing it. Possibly a bad driver for the sound or something running that's making the sound. Try a diffrent set of speakers/headphones, see if they do the same thing. If they do, then it's most likely coming from the computer, not the speakers. And vice versa.

Do you hear the sound if you have something else making sound, like a song or a video?

 

it does it without the external speakers..

and yea when a song hits a quiet or soft point, i can hear it faintly..

 

do you hear it all the time, or only when windows is loaded? that should determine whether it's hardware or software. see if you can get your hands on an old Win9x bootdisk and boot into DOS; then listen for it.

 

Are you sitting by a smoke alarm? Many times smoke alarms or other sensors will inject a ticking sound into some electrical components.

 

only in windows... its def software.. my sound drivers are updated..

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