OT computer USB Beep at connect.discounect

Should we assume you have rebooted?

In response Rick, I can no longer see your post. You would think I might try the obvious. Nope! It had been weeks since I rebooted the computer, so I did, It didn't change anything.

Mikek

I know this sounds crazy but have you tried plugging it into another USB socket. I have known sockets lose their ability to accept certain devices reliably although usually for me it is all of nothing. One particular USB socket on my previous machine refuses point blank to work with one particular mouse. I am fairly sure there is a registry entry corrupted for it somewhere but unless and until I run out of other places to plug it in I will continue to use it in another socket.

Other thing to do is try a live boot Linux CD and if the keyboard also misbehaves there then you know it is a true hardware fault.

I haven't tried that but I have second item, my printer that has the best working drivers, even though not the correct ones, that needs a power down cycle on occasion. It also does not babdump as it did. Mikek

This is not a problem except when I have to crawl under the computer desk, lay on my back fumble around following the cable down to behind the computer unplug the correct usb sight unseen. It is just comforting to hear badump when you plug it in. Mikek

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Time for a new keyboard? Update drivers? Check your windows sound associa tions. There is a single interface for all sounds. Maybe that got messed up? Does the sound work for other devices?

This sorta sounds as if something has changed your software "audio volume control" settings. If I recall correctly, the hardware and/or software mixers have a specific volume-slider-and-mute for "system sounds" (as opposed to audio being output by a browser, a music player app, the CD drive, etc.).

You may find that the system-sounds volume slider is down at 0, or that this sound source is completely muted. Or, possibly, that the mixer master-output is turned down or muted (the latter is something that one can do by accident by hitting a particular function-key combination on the keyboard, IIRC).

I don't think it is the keyboard causing the problem. Update drivers? The printer drivers are the best I can get. HP Laser jet 3055 it took hours of searching years ago to find software that made the printer work with windows 7.

Check your windows sound associations.

There is a single interface for all sounds.

Maybe that got messed up?

Does the sound work for other devices? Yes it works on other devices.

Time for a new computer. OK, Mikek, now you have my blessing, go for it!

amdx wrote in news:qj41j8$433$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

Moisture over time in the kybd has caused a false press of a 'random' key by presenting a voltage across and into a path it was not intended.

OR the USB connector itself is intermittent or oxidized or wiped enough that it has a loss of connection or a noisy connection resulting in random bit spray key select 'words' to get presented to the USB interface circuit and then passed on to the PC.

amdx wrote in news:qj4cgm$29o$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me:

It is not 'baddump'. It is simply an event indicator. Not decidedly bad or good.

My computer guru is not ready yet. He picked parts for a 4 computers (all the same) right at 8 years ago. We all put them together and they are all still working. I'm waiting for him to do it again. The keyboard thing is rare, just a pain to climb under the desk and unplug dis/re connect. The printer is just old, and drivers for Win 7 were not made, someone found work around drivers. Other than that it works fine, surfs just fine, does everything I need, Why do I need a new one, so it would be faster, it's fast enough. I have a friend, his life is either overclocking or reinstalling a new modified version of Windows, over and over and over again. "I don't want to fix my computer I want to use my computer"

Besides the markets down, I want it to rebound before I remove $600 or $800. :-)

Ya'all need to buy while the price is low, invest people, invest. That brings up my neighbor, pulled his money out on 9/11. never got back in. In cash all those years. If he considered the fees on his account and inflation he's probably down 45% in purchasing power.

Mikek

It's possible, I'm doubtful, it's just a rare event, why would it stop just because I uplugged it. Why not the same key.

I don't know.

On to a new project, bought an HP400E in as is condition, it has paint flaking off the meter faceplate. I hope that is the only problem, but I had to clear that up before I can check operation, the needle would not go past the curled paint on the meter face. Removed what I could without affecting lines and numbers and put on a few very light coats of Krylon over it. After I verify operation I may be back asking how to make a meter faceplate. Mikek

Are you plugged direct to the PC, or through a hub? (port extender, etc..) The reason I ask is that I had a similar problem and it fixed itself when I went direct to the PC.

As for the constant badump-badump noise, my Win-7 PC does that with hard dr ives. Rarely, I'll get a blue-screen fault -- so I suspect some of the cap acitors on the motherboard might be drying out by now and causing unaccepta ble power distrubances on the various peripheral interfaces, including USB.

I should have updated this machine loooooong ago, but I hated the blocky ch ildish interface of Windows 8, and Win-10 isn't any better. I could go to Linux, but I have too much software that would have trouble migrating. (In short, I'm screwed.) :)

One option is you could drive yourself bat-shit crazy trying to figure out all the cryptic information that I'm sure Microsoft stuffed away neatly int o the Event Log or some such. After a few hours of that, you would no long er care.

I didn't write baddump, I wrote badump, but it's more like ba-dump One is rise ondump and the other is goes low on dump, but it's been so long, I don't remember which is which.

BINGO!! Systems sounds was turned down. Thank you very much. Mikek

And for Win, I meant to say thank you for your Blessing. Looks like I can get a couple more years on this computer. Or more!

Keyboard direct to computer. From a previous poster, I found systems sounds was turned down to zero. My Badump is back. Mikek

I've got a quite elegant solution that is slightly too large for this margin. lol

Get a USB extension cord so the unplug is closer to you.

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Plugging in and working is the up (happy) sound. Unplugging is the downwar d (less happy) sound. Plugging in an not working is an error sound.