Error sound while exiting and starting windows on 5672

I have the same problem. Only I get three!! exclam sounds on startup, and also such a beep when exiting... no idea why... and never see any error message.

Same here.. here the sound but no error box.

Greetings all! I just got my Aspire 5672 a couple days ago. I get the same issue. Anyone figure out why this is happening? I don't want a crash issue down the road.

Thanks!

Reason for wiping HD...

I guess this is why many people have wiped their hard drives and done a fresh install of windows, eh?

I have this issue when restarting/shuttingdown my Acer 8204 with a clean install of Windows XP. I have bigger issues I'm trying to resolve so I have not looked into it.

It is probably one of the startup applications that's causing it. I don't think it is one of the Acer applications since I didn't install any of them.

Interesting... I felt sure it was one of the Acer applications. If it's hardware related, though, everyone would be getting this?

I doubt it is hardware related. It is probably related to some application.

If you get the beep when logging off, then you could try disabling applications one by one until you don't hear the sound. I'm sure your laptop would be happier that way instead of continuously rebooting.

Thanks for the replies. It doesn't seem to affect anything...just more annoying than anything, cause I'm curious to know what's causing it. The system's running fine.

It probably is harmless, but I'm curious to find out what is causing it.

Just a hunch:

Go into Event Viewer (Right Click My Computer, Select Manage, then in Computer Management, select Event Viewer), open the Application Log, and look for Event 1517's. I think this error coincides with at least one of the error sounds on shutdown.

Here is the text of the message:

Defect By Default

Apparently EVERY 5672 is going to do this by default, we'll only hear about it from those savvy enough to post in a thread and recognize it's a problem.

I talked to Acer's support (they speak English and seem to have a bit of an idea what they're doing)... they had never heard of the problem, and told me to take it back.

Now, I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I managed to figure out that it was something that's basically inherently defective with all of the 5672's.

I was just at CompUSA, attempting an exchange, when I decided to try my luck at the floor model. Would you believe it... dingdong on start and thunk on shutdown.

The dingdong on start is caused by the Launch Manager program, labeled QTZGAcer in the startup (MSCONFIG) menu. Disabled it, and no more dingdongs on startup. Uninstall and reinstall failed... you can actually reinstall individual programs and drivers by hitting alt+f10 while the computer is running, and it'll pull up the windows version of their recovery tool. Looks like its just a program that is basically defective by default. After the uninstall and reinstall, I actually had double-ding-dong's on startup.

It's the program that shows the snazzy neon green volume level bar and the bluetooth/wlan enable/disable on the screen.

The shutdown think sound is a bigger problem. I never got the chance to isolate it, though it's something towards the bottom half of MSCONFIG in the default configuration (I already got through most of the top trying to figure out qtzgacer). I gave up, and bought an HP instead... but not before checking event viewer for any errors on their floor model. There were none.

I don't know why Acer would sell a product that is essentially defective by default... It's nothing major, but I'm enough of a nit-picking nerd that if a company is putting a product that's defective on the market, I won't buy it.

I'll be in the HP forums, should anything happen.

Yeah, I don't think it's an individual problem... I did take one back (because of that and a dead pixel!)...and the new one I got has the same noises. So I'd think it's common to the 5672. Does anyone have a 5672 (with OEM install of XP) that doesn't have this happen?

i only get the sounds if i'm going into our out of hibernation or standby... on a normal startup i know i don't get anything other then the damn windows music, and on shut down i have noticed once in a while i get the error beep, but its not consistant. I just got my 5672 under a month ago, the first one had a problem where if i rest my hand beside the touchpad acer arcade would startup... some malfunction... so exchanged that and so far this one's been fine...

Possible Fix from M$oft

Go here:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
and download and install the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service ,this will assure the registry is unloaded before windows shuts down,and more than likely get rid of the annoying error sound also.
It will run as a service,and affects nothing else in the system except the error at shutdown or logoff.

I tried that, actually, right before I sent mine back. Didn't work on the shutdown bonk.

I installed it recently...and I'm still getting both error sounds... one at startup and one at shutdown. The Hive Cleanup Service doesn't seem to do anything.

Maybe I'm not using it correctly?

I wasn't getting the error on startup untill i installed this patch... now i get the error on startup and shutdown

What patch are you referring to, kashman?

i tried this patch,
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
from microsoft.