Irritating voice on startup

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David

hello all,

I have this problem with a voice coming out of my computer, at startup, that
says something to the effect of "computer on, starting up from operating
system.", or something like that.

I've looked in my sound files, nothing, it's very weird.

Also, when I'm downloading from irc, a voice comes on, the same voice, and
tells me that I have a file downloading or file completed, and I've looked
in there too, in the setup for irc and the script I'm running, and there's
nothing checked!

Anyone got any ideas?

I'm running XP Home on a amd 2700+, 1gb ddr3200, 80gb maxtor harddrive and
120gb wd harddrive, ati radeon 9800 pro.

thanks
 
David said:
hello all,

I have this problem with a voice coming out of my computer, at startup,
that
says something to the effect of "computer on, starting up from operating
system.", or something like that.

I've looked in my sound files, nothing, it's very weird.

Also, when I'm downloading from irc, a voice comes on, the same voice, and
tells me that I have a file downloading or file completed, and I've
looked
in there too, in the setup for irc and the script I'm running, and there's
nothing checked!

Anyone got any ideas?

I'm running XP Home on a amd 2700+, 1gb ddr3200, 80gb maxtor harddrive and
120gb wd harddrive, ati radeon 9800 pro.

thanks
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Well if it isn't anything in your sound settings, although I would check
again just to be sure since that's the likely spot, then it would have to be
a program that was installed either with or without your knowledge.

You could try running adaware and spybot on the chance that the program
causing this was installed without your knowledge.
AdAware: www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot S & D: www.safer-networking.org/

You could also look in Add/Remove programs for anything that looks like it
could have something to do with system sounds etc.

But again it is most likely that these ae sounds set up somewhere in system
sounds in Control Panel.

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You may have "Narrator" running - Go Start / Accessories /
Accessibility / Utility Manager and have a look.

John Allen
 
Do you happen to be using an ASUS motherboard with "Winbond Speech
Controller" enabled ?
(The last default message is "Computer now booting from operating system")
Any messages prior to that indicate a particular problem.
ASUS boards also come with "Windbond Voice Editor" on the motherboard CD,
which lets you use you own voice and messages etc. (I have heard an altered
message saying "Look Out, Windows is coming")
 
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Do you have the "Narrator" turned on? Click > Start > All
Programs > Accessories > Accessibility > Narrator, or Start > Run >
Narrator.

Bruce Chambers

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Your sound files have nothing to do with this as those files are not
accessed during the early stages of the boot process. Look to your bios!

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Zoolook said:
Could it be accessibility options?
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Could be, maybe Narrator is running and causing this.

By the way Zoolook, please leave the original post quoted in your responses.
In some cases your response may not show up in the original thread and
others won't know what your responding to.

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wojo said:
Well if it isn't anything in your sound settings, although I would check
again just to be sure since that's the likely spot, then it would have to be
a program that was installed either with or without your knowledge.

You could try running adaware and spybot on the chance that the program
causing this was installed without your knowledge.
AdAware: www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Spybot S & D: www.safer-networking.org/

You could also look in Add/Remove programs for anything that looks like it
could have something to do with system sounds etc.

But again it is most likely that these ae sounds set up somewhere in system
sounds in Control Panel.
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This "voice" is a feature of the motherboard - must be an ASUS. It
can disabled in the BIOS. It is not a function of Windows.
 
Enter BIOS at system startup [hit DELETE key]

Set Voice POST reporter (or whatever it happens to be called) to: DISABLED

Enjoy

Jae Z

P.S. Using an ASUS P4S8X-Gold myself, has the same "feature". Also, disabled. : )
 
By the way Zoolook, please leave the original post quoted in your
responses.
In some cases your response may not show up in the original thread and
others won't know what your responding to.
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Yeah, I get that alot... point taken...
 
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