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Jun 13^th, 2005 at 7:19pm

flyboy 28 Offline
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'Evening, everyone..

There's something wrong with the sound on my computer. When it comes through the speakers, it's all distorted and sounds like its underwater, echoey and stuff. Same goes for the headphones. Any idea what it is? I opened her up and dusted off the sound card and that didn't work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
James

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Reply #1 - Jun 14^th, 2005 at 6:16am

Dan Offline
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Hi James! Assuming you haven't done any silly overclocking or anything, then have you checked the drivers? I know on my PC nVidia mixer gets itself quite confused sometimes, but it only needs to be set-up again. Check for environment. Failing that re-install the audio driver or maybe the nForce, but not if its a sound card.
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Reply #2 - Jun 14^th, 2005 at 6:33am

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You prolly have the "underwater" mixer effect turned on accidently. Grin

If you don't mess with the effects and mixers, then they just run in the background using resources.

Turn off your custom sound mixers that installed during the driver installation of your soundcard or during the addition of other sound apps.

You may see their icons active in the system tray, or spot them in a search of running apps in task manager.

Some may need to be turned off in the startup or possibly even "services" if you use WinXP.

Just another possible angle, hope it helps.

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Reply #3 - Jun 14^th, 2005 at 6:39am