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I have looked all over the interned for an answer to this one . . .

Audacity 1.2.6 crashed today. After the crash I began hearing the sound of my hard drive spinning in my headphones. Somehow the input signal from the mic is being routed to the output. Does anyone have any idea what would have caused this or how to make it stop?

I tried turning he mic off in the system preferences, but it appears to make no difference at all, mic volume stays on.

If I turn the speaker volume up too much it begins to feed back.

I tried some settings within Audacity, but it crashed again. I think it's not liking the new system upgrade. . .

system: Mac Powerbook 1.25 GHz PowerPC, Leopard OS 10.5.8

Hellllllllp meeeeeeeeeee . . . . . .

Thanks!

Zac

<<<Mac Powerbook 1.25 GHz PowerPC, Leopard OS 10.5.8>>>

G4??

Cooo. Now that it's too late, I so totally wouldn't do that. Tiger got along really well with all the "G" processors and Leopard gets along really well with the Intel processors. They can be forced to cross... I do have one machine that's crossed, but it's the other way. An Intel machine running Tiger. In any event, all the combinations work very much better if you don't "upgrade" across the boundary. This is nothing like going from 10.4.10 to 10.4.11. Fresh install is best.

There are current Mac configurations that will no longer run Audacity 1.2. You may have found a new one. I would probably give up on 1.2. The last stable "Beta" version was 1.3.7 and you can get it here...

http://audacity.googlecode.com/files/au ... -1.3.7.zip

Make sure you trash the configuration file after you trash Audacity 1.2.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... =10#p34670

The new Audacity should ask you "English?" at First Birthday. If it doesn't, you left parts of the old Audacity hanging around.

You can also get the latest Audacity 1.3.8 from the usual download web site, but that version had a very difficult birth...

Koz

Thanks Koz

You are right about the OS upgrade! I followed (flawed) advice to upgrade to Leopard . . . and have had all kinds of problems since then. I'm too deep into it now and think It's looking like time for a laptop upgrade.

I had upgraded to Audacity 1.3.8 after the issue came up. I just deleted all Audacity files (thanks for your directions in the other post) and went back to 1.3.7.

I think the microphone problem healed itself in the process . . . . COOOOOOOOL!

It was amazingly annoying. I could not turn the sound up on my laptop without feedback, and could not record anything, even with a mic plugged in to the input, without recording hard drive spinning noise. I use this machine to teach music so you can imagine it was making things challenging for me.

Thanks again for your great tips,

Zac

<<<You are right about the OS upgrade! I followed (flawed) advice to upgrade to Leopard . . . and have had all kinds of problems since then. I'm too deep into it now and think It's looking like time for a laptop upgrade.>>>

You should be able to go back to your original machine status with the install disks. That will bring you back to Tiger or Panther or whatever was current when you bought it. Then do all the upgrades since then except the last one. Can I assume you don't have anything backed up or saved or you don't have an image of the original drive?

Time Machine isn't available on these machines, so I know you don't have that.

In other words you're a prime candidate to lose the machine and everything on it. For USD12 at Costco you can get a 20GB thumb drive that should back up everything on your machine assuming you don't have 17 weeks of music in your iTunes folder. One of the Systems Operators recommends backing up your whole /Users folder.

Koz