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    Inspirion 6400 sound problems

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by rooban, Oct 13, 2010.

  1. rooban

    rooban Newbie

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    Hi!
    I recently reinstalled a friends Inspirion 6400, after installing XP i downloaded all the necessary drivers from dell.com.

    Everything work fine except when I play music sound glitches every 3-5 seconds. I installed the SIGMATEL driver, dunno what sound-card he have. Have tried reinstalling driver twice but same problem occur.

    Is it possible that he got the creative soundcard, can U install with wrong drivers?

    Cant see any units conflicts so thats aint the problem

    Help!
    Thx in regards
     
    rooban, Oct 13, 2010
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  2. Digiti

    Digiti Notebook Enthusiast

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    I had this problem when using WinXP on this laptop. The only fix I found was to use the next to last WinXp sigmatel audio driver from Dell. This is the one without the stereo mix feature. The Creative "soundcard" you mentioned is just a software program that has some audio enhancements. The audio chip remains the same in either case.
     
    Digiti, Dec 8, 2010
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