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    dv5t speakers fuzzy

    Discussion in 'HP' started by The_Musician, Sep 16, 2008.

  1. The_Musician

    The_Musician Notebook Consultant

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    hi everyone
    i accidently forgot my notebook in my car for about 15 minutes today
    and i think the heat may have damaged my sound card in my dv5t


    because now when i was playing Counterstrike before my headphones all of a sudden sounded distorted after a few minutes
    i restarted teh notebook, did a static check, and tried again and its the same problem
    but when i play music through itunes its no problem :/
    ive been on this notebook today about an hour and 45 minutes in the problem came up

    is it my computer or something else? the speakers on the notebook seem to work fine.



    edit: My sound gets totally messed up when playing CSS, i did a snd_restart in console in CSS but its still funky with gun shots, but when i exit my sound goes back to normal.
     
    The_Musician, Sep 16, 2008
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  2. sendmarksmail

    sendmarksmail Notebook Evangelist

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    If the sound is only affected when playing CSS and goes back to normal in Widnows mode, then I doubt that you're soundcard was damaged. Try uninstalling and re-installing CSS.

    Unless I am reading your story wrong.
     
    sendmarksmail, Sep 17, 2008
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  3. uncming

    uncming Notebook Consultant

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    Heat damage manifests itself in very unpredictable ways and one of those ways is intermittent problems. If all you did in the interim between leaving it in the car for 15 minutes was to launch CSS then its possible.

    All I'm saying is I wouldn't rule it out.

    But at the very least you could try is to re-install
     
    uncming, Sep 17, 2008
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