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Subject: Re: Now I'm SERIOUSLY alarmed about my Archos!!

Re: Now I'm SERIOUSLY alarmed about my Archos!!

From: Manuel Dejonghe <manuel_at_dejonghe.de>
Date: 2006-02-22

On 2/22/06, Grant Hardy <granthardy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok...starting a few days ago, whenever I put my Archos into my pocket
> or indeed bumped it in any way, the Archos would emit this little
> squeak which sounded like it was coming through the headphones. But
> just today, no headphones plugged in either, I started playing a song
> and slipped the Archos into my pocket (ok, more like dropped it into
> my pocket) and heard this HORRIBLE squealing sound which lasted until
> the disk span down!! WHAT is up??

I never had that with my archos, but with my h340 in the beginning.
Absolutely unreproduceable, surprisingly loud, quite scary.

I was hoping for a while it had to do with a hardware
misconfiguration. I don't know if there is a way to initialize a "pop"
on the microphone by mistake.

To describe the sound: It ever reminded me of the worst sounds I ever
heard of a hard disk. A bit like if two very expensive glasses of wine
touch each other by mistake (with fluid it it, modifying the sound).

lImbus
Received on Wed Feb 22 10:11:53 2006


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