computers, musical tastes thereof

[rivendellrose]

Dear Computer:

Please stop doing this thing where you refuse to play sound. It's very frustrating, as the vast majority of my music is on your hard drive and I am less-than-enthused with the prospect of listening to my CD player, which is waaaay the hell on the other side of the room, and must not be moved as it is also my alarm clock.

I understand that you're four years old, but that is no reason to start being a butt about every damned little thing. I swear, I will perform an exorcism on you come Halloween if you don't start behaving.

Comments

[gurny.livejournal.com]

You really have terrible luck with that thing don't you?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I think it's just one of those things... since I don't have a car, another piece of technology has to step in to fill the mechanical "it's always something" gap. Fix one thing and another problem promptly shows up. The sound thing was hardly ever an issue before I fixed the memory... now it's happened twice in a week.

[gurny.livejournal.com]

Well nothing springs to mind as a cause with what I know, but if I think of something helpful I will certainly let you know. I'm struggling to turn off my tech support instinct as I have to get up at 6:30 to go fix the things tomorrow :p

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Pats* Don't worry about it - past experience says that a reboot fixes this, so I'll just turn it off overnight, and tomorrow it should be fine again. Hope work isn't too bad for you tomorrow!

[zhapper.livejournal.com]

You've got something hijacking your sound's resources. I'd run your spyware scanner and make sure you don't have some new player or something installed. Did you install any new software recently?

Also, Windows media player likes to hijack system resources and then not quit properly. Bring up the task manager and kill any instances of wmplayer or anything like that. Sometimes that gets my sound back.

Sorry for spamming your comments. I'm avoiding this horrible paper I'm writing.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Thrilling. It really is always something.

I ran the spyware scanner recently, but I'll run it again just to make sure. No new software that I can think of... blargh. I'll run all of that this evening, see what I can find. Thanks for the help!

Yeah, I know the feeling. Don't worry about it, and good luck with the paper!