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    Lattitude D600 Sound is all distorted

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dman535, Apr 1, 2008.

  1. dman535

    dman535 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I noticed on episode of this yesterday, and its doing it all of today.

    I have a very faint distorted sound output from my machine. I happens on both the speakers and the audio out, and the volume needs to be all the way up to hear. I tried to reload the audio drivers, tried generic ac97 drivers and its still acting up.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

    Derek A.
     
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    Jstn7477 Sam I Am

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    Are you talking about like little electrical/static noises when you turn the volume up all the way? It is caused by electrical interference and is common on many computer sound cards. There isn't anything you can do about it because it's basically normal and you only notice it anyway if you try to. Some of my old nForce 2/3 boards with the old AC '97 onboard sound had tons of noise, but luckily I don't seem to have any noise with my X205.

    EDIT: I remember on my last laptop that when I played music through WMP with its volume slider all the way up but the main system volume on anything it would distort the sound. Try turning the application's volume control down and using the main system volume control to adjust the volume.

    -J.B.
     
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    dman535 Notebook Enthusiast

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    No. If I had to hazard a guess I would say a hardware problem, as there is nothing but muffled noise and the only way to get that is to crank it up all the way. I am afraid that since nothing else changed that its a hardware issue, so I am either looking at a pcmcia sound card or a new motherboard.
     
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    krysimlade Newbie

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    So, if you have wifi inside, try to disable 802.11a BAND. On my XPS 1330 is this solution how to remove crackling noise from audio.

    This works on XP and Vista too...

    Milan
     
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    dman535 Notebook Enthusiast

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    This is not just noise. It literally the equivalent of like a blown amplifier trying to play. Its not regular audio that is just scratchy, its pretty messed up - you cannot even make out the content that is playing. Which is why i think the sound card portion of the motherboard is going.
     
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    After being shut down for an hour the sounds was fine. Just fired the machine up now and the sound is fine. So I assume its a hardware issue, possibly tied to an intermittent connection? thermal issue ?
     
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