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Anonymous   08-01-2005 at 02:30:58 PM

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I am having an odd sound problem on the kid's computer. It's an older
machine - P450 w Win 98 ES1868 sound card. They use it for listening to
music and IMing.

The sound has always been fine until a few days ago. Now it has a weird
tone to it. It's a bit trembly, but the odd part is the mix. For
example when playing a song, the music and the background singers will
be loud and clear, but the main singer will be faint and hollow
sounding. It works this way for mp3s and video sound. Wavs seem fine,
but they have no music so I can't tell for sure. It's like some parts
are comong through and others aren't (or are very faint)

I've checked the headphones and speakers, uninstalled and reinstalled
the drivers, and checked for any conflicts under system properties, and
looked at multimedia properties. Nothing is showing as a problem.

I checked the net for this problem, but all I found was endless pieces
of advice about what to do if you get no sound at all.


Anyone?

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Anonymous   08-01-2005 at 05:39:59 PM
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<joanne__king@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I am having an odd sound problem on the kid's computer. It's an older
>machine - P450 w Win 98 ES1868 sound card. They use it for listening to
>music and IMing.
>
>The sound has always been fine until a few days ago. Now it has a weird
>tone to it. It's a bit trembly, but the odd part is the mix. For
>example when playing a song, the music and the background singers will
>be loud and clear, but the main singer will be faint and hollow
>sounding. It works this way for mp3s and video sound. Wavs seem fine,
>but they have no music so I can't tell for sure. It's like some parts
>are comong through and others aren't (or are very faint)

You're listening to the difference between the two channels. This can
happen if a ground line comes loose somewhere. I take it this happens
if you plug headphones into it, OR speakers? If so, it's not the speakers,
so I would check the PC board of the soundcard for a damaged ground trace
around the connector. This happens when people manhandle those cheesy
1/8" phone plugs... they provide no mechanical support whatsoever and it
is very easy to damage the board traces as a result.
--scott


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Anonymous   08-02-2005 at 04:16:53 AM
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<joanne__king@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1122910258.697620.265360@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> I am having an odd sound problem on the kid's computer. It's an older
> machine - P450 w Win 98 ES1868 sound card. They use it for listening to
> music and IMing.
>
> The sound has always been fine until a few days ago. Now it has a weird
> tone to it. It's a bit trembly, but the odd part is the mix. For
> example when playing a song, the music and the background singers will
> be loud and clear, but the main singer will be faint and hollow
> sounding. It works this way for mp3s and video sound. Wavs seem fine,
> but they have no music so I can't tell for sure. It's like some parts
> are comong through and others aren't (or are very faint)
>
> I've checked the headphones and speakers, uninstalled and reinstalled
> the drivers, and checked for any conflicts under system properties, and
> looked at multimedia properties. Nothing is showing as a problem.
>
> I checked the net for this problem, but all I found was endless pieces
> of advice about what to do if you get no sound at all.
>
>
> Anyone?


I'm with Scott... the card is probably damaged. If this is the PC's only
purpose, a cheap SoundBlaster PCI card would be a fairly acceptable
replacement.

DM

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