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Laptop sound problems! Help!

  • 08-03-2005 7:05pm
    #1
    lintdrummer
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    K, its rag week here in Maynooth, so Im gonna make this quick so I can get back to the fun and frolics!
    I'm in my friends flat where we were listening to music on her laptop. The speakers aren't great so I brought over my woofer and a couple of speakers. Sound was fine. Then I plugged the speakers into my laptop. Again the sound was grand. She played a song on hers and the sound from her speakers was crap. It was distorted and low, no matter how high we put the volume. All volumes are now at full. We restarted the pc and then the sound was still low, but not distorted. There are loudish crackles every few seconds. Plugging in the speakers results in perfect sound.
    I've tried troubleshooting but nothings working. We're stumped. Anyone got any ideas?
    The sound card is a ''Sigma tel C Major Audio'' card. Laptop's a Dell Inspiron 5150. It's running XP home.

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    emmettogara wrote:
    It was distorted and low, no matter how high we put the volume. All volumes are now at full.

    hmmm, a sub + speakers on full blast on a lappy soundcard with lappy vol up full?

    not a good idea tbqh. damage something.

    so the sound is fine from speakers but the lappys own speakers dont work great? sounds damaged to me tbh.


  • #3
    lintdrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,803 ✭✭✭lintdrummer


    Yes, but these speakers aren't that loud. They have about 50watts including the sub. They're designed for computer use. Plus I've been using them on my own laptop consistently since Christmas and I've had no problems. It can't b the sound card coz the sounds fine through the speaker set, but I dont see how the built in speakers could have gotten damaged. It can't have been a short through the speaker lead either coz I would expect the output socket to be damaged if that were the case. I dunno. It's weird.


  • #4
    Infini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭Infini


    It does sound like the internal speakers have fried on you. Does the crackling happen when your doing other things like playing games on that laptop as well?
    Just asking but when did this start and does the laptop have audio enhancing software installed?


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