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Mephisto
My XP lappy has recently started to experience sound problems.
Whenever I try and play any sort of sound, regardless of the software
I use, all I get is loud white noise. I've checked the settings and
the drivers and all seems fine. I haven't installed any software that
uses sound recently, and the problem seemed to start suddenly. It's
all sound that's affected and not just music and stuff.
If I reboot I get normal sound back for a few minutes (sometimes
longer) and then it's suddenly replaced by the white noise at the same
volume. It's not drowning out the normal sounds, it's replacing them.
The machine uses a Realtek AC97 audio device, and I'm using Windows XP
Home Edition if that's any help. The speakers are Harmon Kardon,
built-in.
If I open the Control Panel and use the test wizard and check all the
settings everything looks fine, but then I get a 'not responding'
message when I try and close the dialogue box. When I try and double
click on the sound icon in the control panel again it doesn't do
anything.
I have had similar problems with the wireless.exe file on this machine
- the connection suddenly vanishes and has to be repaired, and
sometimes exactly the same problem occurs with the control panel... it
won't open the internet connections box and the only way I can get the
connection back is to reboot (sometimes several times an hour, very
frustrating).
I've checked for viruses/dodgy spyware etc. and it's clean.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I don't want to have to install
the OS because the laptop came from the shop with it preinstalled and
no discs!
Cheers,
Mephisto
Whenever I try and play any sort of sound, regardless of the software
I use, all I get is loud white noise. I've checked the settings and
the drivers and all seems fine. I haven't installed any software that
uses sound recently, and the problem seemed to start suddenly. It's
all sound that's affected and not just music and stuff.
If I reboot I get normal sound back for a few minutes (sometimes
longer) and then it's suddenly replaced by the white noise at the same
volume. It's not drowning out the normal sounds, it's replacing them.
The machine uses a Realtek AC97 audio device, and I'm using Windows XP
Home Edition if that's any help. The speakers are Harmon Kardon,
built-in.
If I open the Control Panel and use the test wizard and check all the
settings everything looks fine, but then I get a 'not responding'
message when I try and close the dialogue box. When I try and double
click on the sound icon in the control panel again it doesn't do
anything.
I have had similar problems with the wireless.exe file on this machine
- the connection suddenly vanishes and has to be repaired, and
sometimes exactly the same problem occurs with the control panel... it
won't open the internet connections box and the only way I can get the
connection back is to reboot (sometimes several times an hour, very
frustrating).
I've checked for viruses/dodgy spyware etc. and it's clean.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? I don't want to have to install
the OS because the laptop came from the shop with it preinstalled and
no discs!
Cheers,
Mephisto