For two nights now (different times) weird sounds have been coming from the speaker of my G4. I shut down all programs and I heard Heavy Metal music. I put the computer to sleep and it stopped. I woke it up and it came back. Later it was music from a different genre. No announcer so I don't know if it's local university radio or some body broadcasting from their basement, either way there is no antenna, bluetooth or wireless hardware connected. An iMac is networked within five feet and it's quiet. It has not been moved or altered for weeks and this just started.
Ideas?
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No, I wasn't watching anything. I closed all programs. Tonight I'll try disconnecting from the network and the internet in case something somewhere is acting like an antenna.
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A friend of mine had a G4 that would pick up a multi-language radio station around Vancouver (BC). Only happened when he had a certain set of speakers plugged in. We never discovered whether it was the Mac or the speakers that actually recieved the signals, but it was annoying nonetheless.
As for getting rid of the sound? Well, try unplugging anything other than the Keyboard and mouse. Try plugging it into a different power outlet. If you have a wireless card, remove it (or at least disconnect the antenna).
I can't provide you a guaranteed cure, but it likely has something to do with the fact that the PowerMac G4s had some of the best wireless antennae until very recently. It will pick up almost anything.
I used to have a Beige G3 hooked up to an old apple studio display (one of the ones with speakers on them) that used to pick up stray radio as well ... but only when those 2 particular things were paired together and only in one office in the building hehe. It wasn't the power as we even ran a long extension cord from elsewhere to try and figure out where it was coming from... we ended up just giving up on it in the end and moved the hardware elsewhere and the problem was solved.
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