All of a sudden any commercial CD, or any CD I have burned ------ upon playback via my CD Player or my DVD/CD Player/Writer, I clearly hear a continuous background sound like "put, put, put, put, put"
I have a SAMSUNG SC-148A CD Player and a SONY DRU-180A DVD/CD Player/Writer
I do not get this sound from anything I play directly from my computer hard drive
I have made no recent changes to my hardware or software. I use Windows XPS3 and play CDs using WMP
Anyone have ideas on what might cause this?
For clarification... is it a mechanical noise that the units are making? Or is it background noise coming through the speakers?
Coming thru speakers only
Okay... try re-seating, or possibly replacing the IDE ribbon cable.
Since my ribbon cable goes from motherboard and splits in two to connect with my two players, reseating or replacing the cable seemed good advice. I did remove and reconnect the cable with no result.
I will get a new cable and try that, but because my DVD/CD Player/Writer continues to burn movie DVD disks with no sound problem I'm not very confident that a new cable will help.
Nope, new ribbon cable did not help.
Perhaps I should mention that these "put-put-put" sounds are very close together and they are in the background but quite easy to hear.
Anything I might try next?
Further info: I've just discovered that I can still rip sound from a CD in my CD player, and then that sound can be played back from my hard drive without the "put, put, put"
I'm am sorry to say that I do not have any other ideas.
This is a tough one. Anybody else have any suggestions?
Sounds like it might be a shielding problem, but other than that I have no ideas.
Mark H