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05-15-2015, 07:58 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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computer keeps making badunk badunk notification sound for no apparent reason. WTF?
To add to my current list of technological contretemps my computer has begun making this badunk/badump sound and I can't figure out what it is for. Not worrisome, just annoying.
In other news I got my washer working again and will update that for anyone who is interested. Plus, fuck starlings. Now I'm getting messages saying a device driver wasn't installed properly b/c the device is unplugged. There are no devices, either plugged or unplugged.
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05-15-2015, 08:21 AM
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Heh.
I'd wager there are a LOT of devices that are not plugged in to your computer right now. And please update us on the washing machine saga. |
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05-15-2015, 10:53 AM
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Read? I only know how to write.
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05-15-2015, 12:22 PM
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05-15-2015, 04:33 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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I will have to retrace my footstepsI will have to retrace my footstepsI will have to retrace my footsteps to see what I might have connected or not.
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05-15-2015, 05:39 PM
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It's not you connecting them. Most of the devices are just chips on your motherboard. They are always physically connected, but if they fail, or get bad power, or the chips that lead to them fail, or drivers are corrupt, or etc. they may just come up as "disconnected" because Windows' expected them to be there and they are not.
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05-15-2015, 10:15 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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That makes sense.
Thanks.
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05-16-2015, 08:08 AM
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still says videotape
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and check those wheel bearings
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05-16-2015, 08:18 AM
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Absolutely, if the cart fails I the middle of your shopping they charge you for it!
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05-18-2015, 10:51 AM
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The BIOS first talks to and enables every device using a system far more complicated that even DOS. An entire bus system talks to every device (even PCI bridges), obtains an ID number, and then tries to setup the device. All this done long before it even tries to boot the OS. Apparently that hardware bus sees some device but cannot initialize it. |
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And, if it's not connected, and it's unknown, how does the computer know there is a device at all? Also: "Device" should be a verb.
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05-18-2015, 04:09 PM
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Do you have a USB keyboard?
I have a laptop which was making similar noises to those you describe and messages about device drivers often appeared. As the laptop is more or less welded to the desk I have used an external keyboard for some time. The cable between the keyboard and the laptop had almost worn through where it had become twisted. When moved, contact was made or broken as the core(s) touched or separated and the 'badunk/badump' noise was issued forth.
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05-18-2015, 06:30 PM
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"Who, Dave? No, he's not coming, he's totally deviced." |
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05-18-2015, 06:43 PM
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I can hear my ears
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Devise is a verb. zat close enough?
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05-18-2015, 08:24 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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So it is a problem with my webcam, the computer doesn't like the device drivers, doesn't like the device, and hates starlings.
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