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Is this a common problem?
Is it common for the cable on PC speakers to cause the PC to close down
randomly if it is old or damaged? I noticed my PC shutting down at random, and if I move the speaker's cable with my hand intentionally just slightly (with the power cable inserted into it of course) that it makes a slight buzz noise and the PC shuts down. I'm not using the PC with no speakers now and it seems to be working fine - do you think it's the speakers that were causing the problem? -- Gaffer |
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Gaffer, 8/24/2005, 12:06:55 PM,
wrote: Is it common for the cable on PC speakers to cause the PC to close down randomly if it is old or damaged? I noticed my PC shutting down at random, and if I move the speaker's cable with my hand intentionally just slightly (with the power cable inserted into it of course) that it makes a slight buzz noise and the PC shuts down. I'm not using the PC with no speakers now and it seems to be working fine - do you think it's the speakers that were causing the problem? Maybe your sound card is not seated properly. -- "Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom." -- Michael Green |
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:06:55 GMT, "Gaffer"
wrote: Is it common for the cable on PC speakers to cause the PC to close down randomly if it is old or damaged? No, it's practically unheard of. At worse if the cable were shorting out it might overheat the codec chip or gain stage opamp (output on the motherboard) though these days those chips may have overload protection, but it would not shut off the system, only the sound output. I noticed my PC shutting down at random, and if I move the speaker's cable with my hand intentionally just slightly (with the power cable inserted into it of course) that it makes a slight buzz noise and the PC shuts down. I'm not using the PC with no speakers now and it seems to be working fine - do you think it's the speakers that were causing the problem? I'd tend to suspect what badgolferman suggested, that your sound card might be loose, moving around a little. You might open the case and check on that. |
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"kony" wrote in message ... On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:06:55 GMT, "Gaffer" wrote: Is it common for the cable on PC speakers to cause the PC to close down randomly if it is old or damaged? No, it's practically unheard of. At worse if the cable were shorting out it might overheat the codec chip or gain stage opamp (output on the motherboard) though these days those chips may have overload protection, but it would not shut off the system, only the sound output. I noticed my PC shutting down at random, and if I move the speaker's cable with my hand intentionally just slightly (with the power cable inserted into it of course) that it makes a slight buzz noise and the PC shuts down. I'm not using the PC with no speakers now and it seems to be working fine - do you think it's the speakers that were causing the problem? I'd tend to suspect what badgolferman suggested, that your sound card might be loose, moving around a little. You might open the case and check on that. I've bought new speakers and it's working fine. These new speakers have an adapter that goes straight from the plug to the speakers, were as my old speakers got their power from the PC itself. Perhaps the fault was there. -- Gaffer |
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