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From: fasciano@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Massimo Fasciano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: noise on PC speaker
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.152426.14616@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Date: 18 Sep 90 15:24:26 GMT
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In article <1990Sep18.035045.17966@mercury.cair.du.edu> jvilhube@diana.cair.du.edu (Extremely Gonzoid) writes:
>Hi!
>I hope one of you people here has a suggestion to this:
>Someone posted the program remac onto comp.binaries.ibm.pc,
>and it really works fine, except for one thing. It only works 100%
>fine at boot-up time, i.e. if I start it from the autoexec.bat.
>
>If I use the prog at a later stage, even RIGHT AFTER boot-up is 
>finished, then I get this nasty buzz in my speaker. My suspicion
>is, that somwhere inside the circuits, some currents build up, which 
>then go into the speaker if I use it. It almost drowns out any sound
>coming from the speaker.
>
>I know other computers don't have that problem, coz I've tested the 
>prog on the PS/2's, and it worked fine (without that buzz) at any time.
>
>Any ideas? (capacitors, resistors,...)

Do you have a bus mouse installed? Try removing the driver...

(the bus mouse generates a lot of interrupts and will prevent correct
timing of sounds)

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Massimo Fasciano (fasciano@iro.umontreal.ca)