[mythtv-users] [OT] - irritating buzzing noise

[Donavan Stanley]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:36:50 +1100, Phill Edwards
<phill_edwards at hotmail.com> wrote:
>  
> Thsi is a bit off-topic so apologies in advance. I have just built an FC2
> box to run mythtv and have everything pretty much up and running (so a
> tenuous link there) but in the last couple of days a really irritating
> buzzing has started. The machine boots up into run level 3 fine but as soon
> as it reaches the point where it puts up a login prompt at the end of the
> boot the PC speaker starts emitting this horrible buzzing sound. (I'm not
> booting into X windows yet until I get absolutely everything sorted). The
> only way I can stop it is to disconnect the speaker wire. Does anyone have
> any idea what this might be? I'm a bit nervous in case it's some sort of
> hardware problem alert or something. 

Check your volume in alsamixer.  Some versions of ALSA produce that on
my boxes if the volume is up too loud.