Computer Help Needed - Sound is Funky

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For the longest time Tyghre and I thought that our connection to the net was slow, as all the internet radios and such were coming in ‘slow’. Not really slow, but with the pitch low. Today we realized that it isn’t our connection, it is one computer in the house…the one we listen to most…the kitchen laptop.

We’ve gone through all sorts of checks, scans and such, but can’t find anything that would cause this.

Any help out there? Many thanks!

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good luck..

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Hi Tyghress

Is it only internet related sound that is causing the problem?? Does it happen when playing a cd for example. My first thought would be to update the drivers for the sound chip of your laptop and ditto for the software you are using to listen to internet radio to see if it cures the problem. If that doesn’t work then getting the laptop checked first for viruses etc and then the hardware might be needed.

I am assuming that the laptop will have some version of an AC97 sound chip, the manufacturer’s website should have the latest versions of the drivers for your machine, maybe even details of how to fix the problem if it has occurred before.

David

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This morning when I first figured it was the computer not the connection, we tried a CD with the same pitch shift…its not just the internet.

We haven’t tried the drivers, but why should that matter so suddenly?

Thanks for the suggestions, though. We’re running the full system checkup now.

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You may have made some upgrades to your operating system lately (?). The driveer tells your system how to talk to a specific piece of equipment. There’s a software driver for your CD player and one for your sound card. The version of the software drivers is be very specific to the version of your operating system. If you are using updates from Microsoft for Windows you may have updated some component that is “not quite” compatible with the software drivers for your equipment.

djm

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What OS are you running?

If linux, are you using ALSA?

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Windows XP Home…
We seem to be having issue on all machines, but each one appears to be different. On the downstairs laptop not even the CD’s play correctly. I’m just baffled. No updates to the OS, no changes to the hardware.

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What media player?
Do other media players exhibit the same bahavior?
Are the latest drivers for your sound card installed?

Basic Microsoft Windows security

Firewall: ZoneAlarm
Virus protection: AntiVir

#Multi spyware removal utilities:
Lavasoft
Spy-bot

Microsoft Windows tools

Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit - builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, including Microsoft Hotfixes, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.
Driver Cleaner - Driver Cleaner is a program which helps you to remove parts of drivers that are left after uninstalling the old drivers. The program is for ATI and nVidia drivers. First you need to uninstall the drivers from the control panel than reboot and after that run the program. If you really want a good description of what steps you should do than you really need to read the readme file included in the zip file and installation as it contains a detailed description step by step.
Download the Mega-Codec pack and never worry about codecs again! The Mega-Codec pack allows custom installation. It will let you install any and all codecs that you can imagine, plus their own media player will play .mov and .rm files. It even comes with Quicktime and Realmedia plugins for Mozilla/Opera browsers.
GNUWin II - Lots of freeware from the Open Source community

Microsoft Windows help sites

Windows BBS
Computing.net
Annoyances.org
BlackViper.com mirror
Microsoft’s Computer Management
DSL Tweaks

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Sorry then, windows is stupid. Never tells you what is wrong. Good luck!

Prroof windows is stupid,

#4373292- Filesystem needs to be defragged. Linux- filesystem keeps everything together from the start.

#1- It costs $2564747643 while a superior OS starts at $0.00



/dev/me/ is bored.