Sound Compromized

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Brant

The sound on my HP laptop has become choppy, distorted and/or skips. It
effects every input from the windows startup wave file to content on the web.
It's most constant when playing a CD. This has only started a few weeks ago
since around the time I installed SP3. I can't say it's SP3 though because
it seemed okay immediately after the install. The machine has been stable
for the last three years.

I've done the following without resolve:
- Checks status of sound in Device Manager (says device is working properly)
- Checked for sound card driver updates
- System Restore (for some reason would not restore pre sp3 but now that
I've uninstalled sp3, maybe give it a second go)
- Virus disk scan
- Uninstalled SP3

Note: System has been slow to load all processes and the CPU is working
harder than normal (fan kicking in, high cpu utilization). No point in using
any applications for a least 7 minutes after boot.

I hoping someone has some ideas because I'm not crazy about repairing it
from scratch. Thanks! B.
 
Brant said:
The sound on my HP laptop has become choppy, distorted and/or skips. It
effects every input from the windows startup wave file to content on the
web.
It's most constant when playing a CD. This has only started a few weeks
ago
since around the time I installed SP3. I can't say it's SP3 though
because
it seemed okay immediately after the install. The machine has been stable
for the last three years.

I've done the following without resolve:
- Checks status of sound in Device Manager (says device is working
properly)
- Checked for sound card driver updates
- System Restore (for some reason would not restore pre sp3 but now that
I've uninstalled sp3, maybe give it a second go)
- Virus disk scan
- Uninstalled SP3

Note: System has been slow to load all processes and the CPU is working
harder than normal (fan kicking in, high cpu utilization). No point in
using
any applications for a least 7 minutes after boot.

I hoping someone has some ideas because I'm not crazy about repairing it
from scratch. Thanks! B.
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Run Spybot, check what processes your have running, check what loads at
start-up/boot, disable what you don't need.

Cheers,
Jerry
 
Orange, Yeah, last night one of the last things I did was run this, but when
I checked for updates it started dl'ing ver. 1.6 and wouldn't install it
until previous was uninstalled so have to try that tonight.
 
all fixed ... disregard ...

Brant said:
Orange, Yeah, last night one of the last things I did was run this, but when
I checked for updates it started dl'ing ver. 1.6 and wouldn't install it
until previous was uninstalled so have to try that tonight.
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