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    M1210 Audio problem

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by tears_for_fears, Aug 12, 2006.

  1. tears_for_fears

    tears_for_fears Notebook Consultant

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    For some reason, when listening to music on my m1210 (headphones or not) a lot of times (like 70% of the time) when I click a link on the internet or open a program, the music gets really choppy and staticy, then it returns to normal right after. The CPU load doesnt shoot up or anything.

    What can I do to fix this? It started up completely randomly, and there werent any big changes right before it happened.
     
    tears_for_fears, Aug 12, 2006
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    Emotion Notebook Guru

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    I sometimes get that problem too. I would recommend getting rid of the artifical integrated sound blaster... you have sigma tel. My sound does get screw up when i play bf2 staticy and choppy. Althouhg I'm running on a 7 speakers /1 subwoofer configuration on this lappy :D! but it plays fine on FEAR and OBLiVION... I couldn't find any update for our audio driver either =(
     
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  3. tears_for_fears

    tears_for_fears Notebook Consultant

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    Okay I just fixed the problem. The lady on dell chat told me to press f8 during a restart, and choose "last good config" and that fixed it perfectly.
     
    tears_for_fears, Aug 14, 2006
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    So was it something you installed ?
     
    gridtalker, Aug 14, 2006
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    bjdcdjsa Notebook Guru

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    so any updates because I get the problem sometimes too.
     
    bjdcdjsa, Aug 15, 2006
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    Emotion Notebook Guru

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    I find i found an alternative problem. I'm betting it's the webcam! I just setting vidoe call on msn last night and I saw the repeating problem so i enter the camera control panel and disable AEC... there problem solve! give it a shot
     
    Emotion, Aug 15, 2006
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    bjdcdjsa Notebook Guru

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    ^thank you so much. It solved my problem. :)
     
    bjdcdjsa, Aug 15, 2006
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