Rumbling sound from speakers stopped by holding down the mouse button

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On 04/28/04 18:06, Joel Hammer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 08:34:52PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
>>I hear a constant low pitched static from my Bose speakers
>>attached to my linspire box with artsd and using xmms. This
>>sound goes away if I am running acroread and press the
>>left mouse button, but comes back if the mouse button
>>is released.
> 
> 
> Well, I fooled around with the wiring. I have got three
> computers lined up in a row on the floor, two are identical
> linspire boxes. I use all three using a switch box.
> 
> Turns out, although I use box3 for all my routine work,
> including playing mp3's, I had a wire going from the sound
> card of box3 to box2, and ran the speaker wires from box2
> to the speakers. Sound confusing? There must have been a
> reason for this at one time (like, I used to play mp3's
> on box2 also).  So, I ran the speaker wires straight from
> box3 to the speakers, and the static has gone away.
> 
> I don't know enuf about electricity to even make a
> guess why the mouse click during acroread was stopping
> the static.
> 
> Well, at least it works.

crappy hardware that has a leaky signal somewhere.

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