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    Audio Sucks on XPS 1340 PLEASE HELP

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by jamespbu402, Aug 15, 2009.

  1. jamespbu402

    jamespbu402 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey everyone,

    I just got the XPS 1340 as a replacement from Dell and it came with Vista 32bit i requested a 64 bit disk and loaded it all up. All the drivers are back on and the audio is absolutely terrible. It crackles and skips. I am using iTunes to play music.


    Has anyone had this same problem able to fix it and if so how?
     
    jamespbu402, Aug 15, 2009
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    O and I never installed the IDT Audio HD startup program because I dont have the disk for that. The Audio Codec is installed and that is from IDT
     
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    I am just interested in playing the audio from movies and iTunes. Nothing to do with audio creation or recording. You would think that a expensive laptop like this Dell would be able to at least do that.
     
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    make sure you install the dell sounds drivers, the sounds is crap with the standard windows drivers
     
    cooljerk_dv, Aug 16, 2009
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    I think I fixed it I found the old IDT HD Audio desktop application that work fine so far.

    Thanks everyone for the advice!
     
    jamespbu402, Aug 16, 2009
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