For the past several months I’ve been having fits with my PC. It’s a rather new Dell unit, works just fine, with the sole exception of the sounds: system sounds would play just fine but anything complex like music was distorted in some way or another. Sometimes it was generally garbled, sometimes all I could hear was bass and no lyrics, oft had a strange echo effect.
Reinstalling drivers had no effect. Once I changed a hardware setting for some video player inside the browser to NOT use hardware acceleration and that seemed to clear it up… for a few weeks anyway.
Sunday I was rebuilding my ipod so hearing what I was doing was a bit important, so I was tracking this down some more. Nothing was working, but then I started guessing the speakers were in the wrong output. Actually seeing the tower is an issue as it is stuffed aside my desk and not very assessable, but headphones into the speakers sounded like trash but into the PC front panel was perfect!
Dang I must have the speakers plugged into the wrong output I thought. Since they are on an extension patch cord (which is on my desk behind the monitor) I went to move it into the front jack, but as I touched the connectors… BING, perfect sound.
Yeah, it was just a loosie connection all the time. Remove and insert a few times and tucked it back, and enjoyed my music the rest of the night.
Reinstalling drivers had no effect. Once I changed a hardware setting for some video player inside the browser to NOT use hardware acceleration and that seemed to clear it up… for a few weeks anyway.
Sunday I was rebuilding my ipod so hearing what I was doing was a bit important, so I was tracking this down some more. Nothing was working, but then I started guessing the speakers were in the wrong output. Actually seeing the tower is an issue as it is stuffed aside my desk and not very assessable, but headphones into the speakers sounded like trash but into the PC front panel was perfect!
Dang I must have the speakers plugged into the wrong output I thought. Since they are on an extension patch cord (which is on my desk behind the monitor) I went to move it into the front jack, but as I touched the connectors… BING, perfect sound.
Yeah, it was just a loosie connection all the time. Remove and insert a few times and tucked it back, and enjoyed my music the rest of the night.