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.

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.

footfootfoot;928522 wrote:

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.

Does not matter what is physically connected. What matters is more virtual. Visit Device Manager to learn what is really or really not connected.

footfootfoot;928522 wrote:

Plus, fuck starlings.

Absotively. And posilutely. Fuck. Starlings.

tw;928538 wrote:

Does not matter what is physically connected. What matters is more virtual. Visit Device Manager to learn what is really or really not connected.

According to device manager, unknown device is not connected.

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.

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.

That makes sense.
Thanks.

and check those wheel bearings

Absolutely, if the cart fails I the middle of your shopping they charge you for it!

footfootfoot;928571 wrote:

According to device manager, unknown device is not connected.

Elininate the device. Then reboot. If it returns, you probably have a problem as UT noted. So, disable that device in Device Manager. Then reboot. That should keep the BIOS from finding and trying to enable that now defective device.

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.

tw;928876 wrote:

Elininate the device...So, disable that device...

footfootfoot;928571 wrote:

According to device manager, unknown device is not connected.

So, which unknown device is it that's unknown? Which unknown unknown device should he disable?

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.

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.

Gravdigr wrote:

Also: "Device" should be a verb.

"I tried to device, but whores and booze are just too awesome."
"Who, Dave? No, he's not coming, he's totally deviced."

Devise is a verb. zat close enough?

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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:thumbsup:

footfootfoot;928926 wrote:

So it is a problem with my webcam, the computer doesn't like the device drivers, doesn't like the device, and hates starlings.

So, it's not all bad, then...

Gravdigr;928900 wrote:

So, which unknown device is it that's unknown? Which unknown unknown device should he disable?

References were made to completely differerent systems in your computer. BIOS uses hardware that Windows will see. BIOS gets ID codes from devices "that it sees" to initialize them. Windows uses completely different hardware to know of a device it cannot see; cannot access, connect to, or setup.

footfootfoot;928926 wrote:

So it is a problem with my webcam, the computer doesn't like the device drivers, doesn't like the device, and hates starlings.

I don't like gannets. They wet their nests.

I got a clue the other day when a notification popped up indicating which USB root hub was at issue. I opened device manager and one by one disabled the usb hubs until the sound stopped. I got it to stop.

I've also been taking pot shots at the starlings with my son's Red (you'll shot your eye out) Rider BB gun.

Sounds like most of us ... ?

At least with respect to the starlings.