Weird voice message coming from speakers

[Embryo]

After changing from Windows XP to Vista, a strange sintetized voice started to annoy me from time to time. I don't know in what situation it starts, and I can't understand what it says, but sounds something like "custom fail, reboot". It only happens in Vista and the voice keeps repeating itself in an annoying loop.

Any ideas?? Thanks in advance!

 

[Job]

Go into the 'personalize' menu and click on 'sounds' - then go through it till you find the sound you're referring to. If its not there, you have some software on your PC that shouldn't really be there - my guess is its an antivirus app or something - my Avast Antivirus sometimes speaks to me.......

 

[sieistganzfett]

wow, your computer needs an exorcist. when it says the demonic message, does it do anything other than keep repeating itself? is it when any particular software is is running by chance? if disabling certain sound's doesn't take care of it. try setting all of vista's sounds to none if you can do it and see if that fixes it. does any application have any visual error too that might be related to this? what about disabling programs from starting up with the pc, does that take care of it?

 

[Pwnbroker]

Ha, you think that's weird. I used to have an IBM Aptiva that would randomly play some french radio station out of canada; and I'm in Tennessee. Without an internet connection.

 

[Embryo]

This problem started after I installed Vista. The strange thing is that the voice sounds like it comes from the pc internal speaker but in fact it comes from the speakers connected to my sound board. I can even turn the volume down...

Very annoying indeed. Maybe it's saying "System fail, reboot it". I don't know.

 

[Embryo]

Just noticed that the voice returns when I resume the computer from a low-power state mode.

Help!

 

[Frintin]

Check to see if you got the Vista Narrator turned on.

Start/All Programs/Accesories/Ease Of Access/Narrator

Speakers back in the day used to have huge magnets in them that caused them to pick up radio frequencies. I wonder what it was that was picking up your french radio Pwnbroker?

I kind of think Avast messages are cool! Getting used to them finally but at first I was like wtf is that after sitting back down in my chair!

 

[meltdown75]

A lot of motherboards these days have moved on past the beep codes to voices, etc. Check your options in the BIOS - especially if you are using onboard sound. If you are using onboard sound then your error reporting might be coming through your main speakers as opposed to your internal speaker - if your mobo even has an internal speaker.

 

[Embryo]

The Vista Narrator and the voice options in BIOS are turned off.

If it's of any help, I'm using an Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe MB.

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: Pwnbroker
Ha, you think that's weird. I used to have an IBM Aptiva that would randomly play some french radio station out of canada; and I'm in Tennessee. Without an internet connection.

Heh, that's pretty awesome.

 

[Pwnbroker]

Wouldn't that have to be some kind of shortwave station?

 

[Embryo]

Help!

 

[Slikkster]

It's called the "Asus Post Reporter". It's on several motherboards, and is meant to replace confusing beeps. So, instead of getting a beep code that you'd have to try to figure out, you instead get an actual voice error code.

There should be an option to toggle it off in the bios setup. If toggled off, you should get beeps instead of the voice. The real issue is to determine why you're getting error messages to begin with.

There is another option. You should have a utility called the Winbond Voice Editor that came with your motherboard CD that will allow you to customize the voices that are emitted from the built in chip on the board. You can even toggle some off, apparently, and then have the chip re-write itself (which takes a good deal of time; a slow process). Or, you can record your own error messages if you want.

I think if you want to prevent a certain message from working, you clear the text of the message with Winbond, or rerecord silence over it.

From what I understand, the voice chip is wired to the motherboard's line out sound jack. If you are using your own soundcard, chances are this is why you are not hearing the messages well. You might want to temporarily connect your speakers to the motherboard's built in line out jack to hear exactly what message is being said when you come out of standby, etc.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Frintin
Check to see if you got the Vista Narrator turned on.

Start/All Programs/Accesories/Ease Of Access/Narrator

Speakers back in the day used to have huge magnets in them that caused them to pick up radio frequencies. I wonder what it was that was picking up your french radio Pwnbroker?

At his office, my dad has a crappy old pair of speakers for his pc. I was sitting down one morning before anyone else was in the building, going over some paperwork and hear someone talking....it was still dark out and i only had a small light on in the office(middle of winter, and i got in at 6am, this was about 6:30) and it freaked the hell out of me.

It was CB traffic from a truck-driver. :shocked:

 

[Embryo]

Originally posted by: Slikkster
It's called the "Asus Post Reporter". It's on several motherboards, and is meant to replace confusing beeps. So, instead of getting a beep code that you'd have to try to figure out, you instead get an actual voice error code.

There should be an option to toggle it off in the bios setup. If toggled off, you should get beeps instead of the voice. The real issue is to determine why you're getting error messages to begin with.

There is another option. You should have a utility called the Winbond Voice Editor that came with your motherboard CD that will allow you to customize the voices that are emitted from the built in chip on the board. You can even toggle some off, apparently, and then have the chip re-write itself (which takes a good deal of time; a slow process). Or, you can record your own error messages if you want.

I think if you want to prevent a certain message from working, you clear the text of the message with Winbond, or rerecord silence over it.

From what I understand, the voice chip is wired to the motherboard's line out sound jack. If you are using your own soundcard, chances are this is why you are not hearing the messages well. You might want to temporarily connect your speakers to the motherboard's built in line out jack to hear exactly what message is being said when you come out of standby, etc.

I've already disabled any options in the BIOS related to this. Still no luck. The strange thing is that I only get this warning with Vista, and after resuming from standby.

 

[Embryo]

Anyone?