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    Inspiron 1300 problem

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by BerT6801, Jun 8, 2009.

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    I have a good friends Dell Inspiron 1300 that she was wanting formated....so I got all the driver downloads from dell and did the job. ...and installed in the correct order as per dells website states...here is the driver [URL="http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&ServiceTag=&SystemID=INSPIRON1300/B130&os=WW1&osl=en&catid=&impid=']download page[/URL]

    My problem is with the audio,,,,it has a nasty skip in anything i play once all the drivers are loaded. I read alot of places of a similar problem with the wireless card causing the issue. But that has not proven to be true. I have done a total of 3 complete format and installs now... One with XP home sp3, Xp Pro sp2,,,and xp Home sp2......all seem to do the same

    My last full format I tried the sound out from the moment I got it running in between each driver, it seems that when you install the video card, it shows up as 2 entries in device manager, one of them does not seem to load the first time,,,, as it shows a 'video adaptor" in the list of Unknown. At this point the audio still plays fine from what I tested (mp3 on the desktop).... but once u remove this entry and windows finds it and uses the correct driver,,,,,, the audio starts to skip...and it seems to skip everytime the HDD light blinks or flickers. Im going nuts here......any ideas? I have tried everything I could find on the dell website, I have not restore partition, or restore disks, so Im workin from scratch,,,,,which normally is a good thing IMO. Please someone give me some insight here. Thanks
     
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    Well I have found the problem.....weird one this is. I noticed that if you have a disk in the cd drive....any CD...that audio problem will not be present. I then found a post on another forum about upgrading or downgrading the firmware of the dvd drive to anything other than 07 version....I went up to the 08...skip still was present. I went down to the 04 and the skip was gone permanently.

    this rocks..... Thought I would post the solution.
     
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