rjisinspired

I checked my extensions and the only one that has an audio setting is Fireshot but it is a sound of a camera click when saving a cap from the browsers page. This one is definitely a mystery.

I didn't hear any sounds when running in safe mode but I have a newer problem now. When getting back from safe to regular mode mymedia plugins are all gone. Windows media, quicktime, shockwave and the adobe player for playing Youtube videos are cleaned out. I tried reinstalling Adobe flash player but Firefox didn't take to the install. According to about:plugins, nothing is there. My extensions however all seem to be working. I read about using the reset option in the safe mode dialog but I'm not sure if this would fix the problem with media plugins? I'm taking it this is only for reseting the extensions in Firefox? Edit - Update: I went to Adobe's test site and was able to fix the problem. It looks like I was stuck in safe mode.

Frequently I have been getting a scratching sound no matter what web page I am at. I can be solely on this site without any other tabs opened up and I get the following sound every couple or so minutes apart: http://rjschat.dyndns.org:8080/Aud/sound-from-browser.mp3 I use Firefox, rarely use Internet Exploder. I had this very same sound happen when I had my older drive running. I am apparently clean of spyware and malware. Viruses or Trojans are exceedingly rare for me to get and I have scanned for those, nothing. The spacings between each time these sounds occur are variable. Best I can describe it is if someone is scratching themselves, lol. Could a plugin be responsible? Here is a listing of the plugins in my Firefox:

Thanks guys for the suggestions. Your right. It wouldn't be worth it. I could just see the sound getting choppy and destroyed when trying to use something even as simple as Audacity to record singing with a working sound card in this old machine. That is if this machine could even handle opening Audacity which I think this machine would choke on it. I'll look into the low cost and refurbished lines. Thanks guys.

My girlfriend has an old Intel 440 motherboard with a pentium 2 processor running Wimdows ME. This was a custom built computer: 256 megs of ram, 350 mghrtz processor and, get this, a 4 gb hard drive!!, loool. I hope my girlfriend never sees this page, she'll put me in the dog house for bashing her computer :-) Her computer's sound card seems to be able to record but not playback sound. The sound card is an "analog devices 1816" brand and I have done everything from removing and readding these drivers, reseating the card into different PCI slots, playing around in bios and using different speakers to no avail. There is something in the registry for this card/device as a "problem device" so I'm willing to venture that this sound card is fubared and I may need to get a hold of possibly an old creative labs card. Does anyone have any recommendations for a sound card for this old machine? I have looked around for creative labs and turtle beach sound cards but I don't see any cards that would work with an older machine running windows ME. I however have seen old sound blaster cards being sold for as low as 1.00 up to a couple of hundred for the very same card huh?!! Never heard of a lot of these shops that carry these old cards also. I hope that someday I can build her an awesome computer but for now if I can find a card that would work in her system, that would suffice. I would at least be out of the dog house after her reading this post I have nothing against old computers but I sure am happy when I go back home and get back on my own computer. Runs like the wind. I built mine last year and built it with speed and longevity in mind. When I get on hers I feel like smacking myself hard against the walls of her living room and pulling my hair out and saying some really nasty words out loud. This "thing' she has freezes all the time, locks up, blue screens. We have to use Opera just to really view anything. Boot time is about a good 2 minutes with only two things running in systray: Avast and filseclab firewall. I'm probably living on the edge using Avast on this machine in the first place, lol. Her system appears to be healthy otherwise, free of viruses and of junk. I use to be a die-hard 98 fan but windows ME seems to be a very delicate OS. I tried looking up for some ME patches and updates but it looks like there isn't an apup for windows ME and everything has to be installed one-by-one. That I don't have the patience for. I then thought to put windows 2000 on her system, hmmmm. Might work out better? Anyway, if anyone would know of a decent, older, sound card that would work with an older machine running windows ME that would be super. Thanks for all of your time. RJ

Update - 08202009: I got my replacement cpu fan, whoo hooo! Rosewills are pretty good Jcarle. One of the links was to a Rosewill but the one I got was a Z300 model that has a copper heatsink. It's a Rosewill hypersilence RCX-Z300 fan. **** this thing is quiet!! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...will%20rcx-z300 The red fan blades are a nice touch :-) Thanks for the help Jcarle.

I have been looking around for an intel cpu fan, part # D34017-002 - 0.60A. I am finding other intel fans but they have different specs but say they will work with 3.0Ghz chips. The pin on the connector is a 4 pin, I am seeing 3 pin connectors for some fans? Is there anything equivalent to an lga775 stock intel fan that came with the 64 bit, 3.0Ghz cedar mill chip? I sent in a message to zipzoomfly but it takes a few business days to get a response and locally the computer shop in my town only deals with Mac hardware. The bottom legs of my cpu fan broke off! The little plastic pieces on the sides of the push-feet were embedded into the board when I went to remove the fan for cleaning, lol. Thanks for any information anyone might have. The stock fan was noisy as heck anyway and maybe a different brand, quieter one, would be better.