Resolved leaving computer on turning monitor off

does any one do that? turn off your monitor but leaving cpu on? googled it and it doesnt seem to hurt anything. so ive been doing it. listening to audio books, well this morning i was woke by a noise that was not any audio book, more like a "wood pecker" and a very hyper one at that. i would call it an electronic woodpecker (i have heard the same noise on my scanner when i stop on a digital freq) never on the computer!!!!!
turned the monitor on and turned the speakers off. and found my mouse and keyboard froze. i had just changed batteries on both so i knew it wasnt that so i pushed the power button. turned everything off. waited 5 mins turned everything back on and found adobe wanted to install a new update so i let it. when i went to the event viewer and about a half dozen errors for msiInstaller 10005. i can maybe see errors because i wouldnt install the adobe update,but the noise? no i dont understan that at all. except that might be good reason just to turn off and unplug everything. tell you another thing that noise would make a very good alarm clock!
anyone got any ideas about the noise, or the frozen mouse and keyboard and i even did the ctrl,alt,delete and it just sat there doing nothing. seems to be okay knock on wood.but i would really like to know what on earth happened!!!!!! i dont like being woke up like that.

 

So, was the noise coming from the speakers?

 

I would never leave the speakers on overnight for one simple reason: energy consumption. In fact, it's probably better to turn off your pc along with your monitor for that very reason. It certainly can't hurt.

 

markmadras yes the noise was coming from the speakers,not the tower.

 

The only thing I have been able to come up with is that an auto update brought your PC out of sleep which caused it to freeze and in turn created the noise. This event should have appeared in your event viewer.

All I can suggest to stop this problem is to disable internet access during the night.

 

now i have no sound at all. changed speakers nope. checked device manager no yellow anythings in sound devices. did the microsoft Fix it, and it didnt fix it.
did i blow my sound card,and wouldnt it show up on device manager?
help!

 

just got one of those error notices from microsoft this was about cthelper run into a problem and has to close.
i sent it,and from my googling cthelper has something to do with my sound. right?

 

i got sound!!!! plugged into the wrong thingie. almost color blind.

 

So, is everything OK now?

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Cthelper is a non essential program that would only be used by developers. If it creates any further errors you can safely remove it.

 

now i dont have sound again!!!!! i have checked everything i can think of and there is no sound coming out of my speakers.
could this be somekind of malware? i'll go run malwarebytes see if anything appears.
everything was shut down last night and unpluged,at least tower monitor printer were,speakers on different socket.
i was proud i told everyone that i had sound!!!!

 

malwarebytes found nothing.
i did notice one thing,in sounds and audio devices in speaker advanced it had been changed to the headset icon,i changed it back to desktop speakers. changed it last night too.

 

This microsoft article and automated fix may help although it doesn't relate directly with your problem.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307918

Another solution is to run the system restore back to a time before it gave you a rude awakening.

When you last changed the settings back from headphones to speakers did you get the sound back?

Do you have onboard sound or a sound card, what details are shown for sound in device manager. Try for an update to the sound drivers.

You could also uninstall the sound drivers, then reboot and windows should load generic drivers for the device.

 

markmadras answer to did i get sound back after changing back to speakers is no.
device manager has no yellow or black symbols.
and i have sound if i use towers inline headphones, but nothing with external speakers.

 

ran the Fix it and it came back if no issues common to problem so no fixes were applied. same as always did.
unplugged speakers and removed from computer, and using headphone jack in front of tower i have sound. and should i change from speakers to headphones? last i looked it was on speakers(within 10 mins) how long is this going to last or will it quit too?

 

What happens if you plug the speakers into the front jack?

 

thats what i was sitting here wondering,and just came on to ask you.
well we want know unless we try, will we,
i have to have my sound and my music, so here i go will let you know in a few minutes

 

well it didnt play either on headphones or speakers,but it is playing with a mini speakers and plays much better with headphones. i can live with that but really need long cord or be really still while im listening,i cant do that.
so i have sound,sort of maybe,so what do we do now? "

 

This says it doesn't work on speakers or headphones but then you say mini speakers and headphones do work

I am beginning to think that your big speakers have blown, do they work in any jack?

Is there an indicator on the speakers that show they are receiving power, is it lit up?