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    Laptop Audio for HEL80 has gone "flat"

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by hsew, Feb 26, 2009.

  1. hsew

    hsew Notebook Enthusiast

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    My computer was working fine until this morning until I noticed that my audio for my PC had gone flat.
    I'm not talking about a flat, lifeless sound, rather, it sounds like the PC is literally tuned to a lower pitch now, (i.e, if a musical group tunes to 440hz one day and then 420 hz the next, there's a difference in pitch). This may not bother most people, but due to my curse (and I call it a curse now because of this incident) of absolute pitch recognition it is driving me insane.
    I've tried reinstalling the driver for the realtek audio component, but it was to no avail. This has happened to me before, on a completely different computer too (and also on a CD player).
    I did notice that the driver version for the realtek soundcard had been updated not too long ago (less than a week from the time of writing this), so if anyone has a fix for this I'd greatly appreciate it.
     
    hsew, Feb 26, 2009
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  2. Atook

    Atook Notebook Evangelist

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    Have you tried removing the device from device manager then rebooting to re-install it?

    Barring that, I'd go into windows update settings, and dissallow automatic driver updates.
     
    Atook, Feb 28, 2009
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