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Posted by: chet david on 2010-09-13 18:40:47
I was typing rapidly in text edit. I then pressed the delete key to delete some text. I heard a very short buzz sound that sounded like an electric head shaver in my earbuds. Later on, the sound came on full force and I had to unplug the earbuds for it to stop. Another interesting bit is that the G3 does not bong or at least not usually. What do you suppose happened?
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Posted by: coius on 2010-09-16 06:51:07
Sounds like a driver glitch. I occasionally get that with my USB speakers, which go into this odd really loud static/glitch audio. Has to do with the driver for the audio having a bug/bad code in it.
Are you using 10.5 on that machine? Not sure, but I think I heard somewhere than the B&W G3 and Yikes! G4 had issues with 10.5 in the audio department. Again, I only recall seeing it, not sure if I remembered it right...
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Posted by: Gorgonops on 2010-09-16 09:45:24
It's not even possible to put 10.5 onto a B&W (with a G4 upgrade, minimum) or a Yikes! without some serious, serious hacking. So I doubt it's Leopard related.
Without knowing what OS the OP *does* have on the machine it's unlikely anyone's going to be able to offer much help.
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Posted by: iMac600 on 2010-09-17 05:29:23
Leopard would need Yikes and Gossamer Kexts copied in even to have a chance of booting. I have said Kexts, but they're extremely rare so I doubt he would be running 10.5 on it, and that doesn't even take into account the machine would need a G4 processor upgrade in it.
I have had the audio "buzzing" issue under just about every version of Mac OS X. It still happens (albeit very infrequently) on my Intel iMac. Irritating, and certainly a bug in the audio drivers, but not one that you should have to worry about. It doesn't signal impending hardware failure or anything of the sort.
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Posted by: chet david on 2010-09-17 17:52:16
It was 10.3 and has not happened since that.
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