-=PCTechTalk=- Re: THE Sound Problem From Dante's Inferno Revisited
- From: "Walt Boswell" <saxyman70@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 05:37:26 -0500
Thanks for all the really informative suggestions, Ed. I will be taking the
tower into the Best Buy store this morning, ostensibly to swap it out for a
new one, but I plan to make it a point to ask about some of the possible
culprits that you outline here. Thanks a million for taking the time to
respond to my rather pathetic appeal for assistance. I need all the help I
can get.
Walt
From: EddieB
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 9:50 PM
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: THE Sound Problem From Dante's Inferno Revisited
Hmm, that is very interesting... it sounds like all the "most likely" causes
have been replaced, so you have to think outside the box now. Ermmm, I
meant that figuratively, not physically, even though figuratively could mean
physically. Like some kind of interference might be getting in... do you
have high voltage power lines nearby? Or a cell tower, or radio station, or
cab company, or police, or any place that might be broadcasting some kind of
signal? It could even be an old leaky microwave oven or wireless router.
Probably the best way to find out would be to bring it somewhere at least 5
or 10 miles away and try it. Was Best Buy able to reproduce the problem at
their store?
If this is not the case and since you have already had all the hardware
replaced (hopefully they did replace those parts you mentioned), then the
only other thing I can think of would be some kind of software conflict.
Has the OS been re-installed (hopefully to factory image)? Did you install
a lot of software on the PC? This type of problem could be a hard to figure
out, but I doubt their "factory fresh install" version of Windows could have
such a problem without a lot of people complaining. That would mean that it
is probably caused by software that you installed. If you never had it
brought back to factory fresh install, then it is very possible that
something just got corrupt and re-installing could fix it. If you try this,
then make sure you have all your important data backed up first. Trying the
PC at another location would be much easier to try first.
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walt Boswell
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 4:41 PM
To: PCTechTalk
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- THE Sound Problem From Dante's Inferno Revisited
I hope a few list folks remember me and my never ending case. I need a few
suggestions, if for nothing else but my general psychological well-being
about the way my problem has progressed, or rather digressed, as it were.
As you might recall, whenever I played a CD, DVD, downloaded music file,
online video or recording, Internet radio site or .wav sound bite, after a
short while I would get a sudden distortion of the music which sounded
rather like a dragging phonograph record and/or a badly scratched vinyl
recording. The distortion would soon stop but it always came back, on and
off, throughout the entire length of the recording. I took the computer
tower back to Best Buy where I bought it just nine short months ago in
December 2010 and they eventually sent it off to the Geek Squad repair store
in Louisville, KY where the Geek Agents replaced the motherboard and
returned the computer to me yesterday. I thought all was well until I
decided to play my all-time favorite version of “Yea, Alabama” (just to pump
myself up for the big game Saturday) and discovered—my great horror that the
distortion was STILL there. I take it as a good thing that I sold my Glock
some time ago.
Now, this thing has turned into one deuce of a mind boggling morass. The
Geek Cops tried replacing the sound card (nothing doing!), the speakers
(ditto!), and finally the motherboard itself (the music still sounds like
Jimmy Carter in the outhouse). I even did my N’awlins, LA Lady Marmalade
cross-dressing voodoo vamp and mojo boogie. I finally downloaded Real Player
thinking that my Windows Media Player might have been the victim of a
hacking most foul and that Microsoft itself was the culprit--the sand in the
Royal Jelly, so to speak. Nope...same results—Coltrane was still in drag,
Sonny Rollins too, and Ella Fitzgerald sounded like she was scat dancing
through a mine field. What to do? What to do? Well, I called Best Buy again.
At this point, I think they plan to just swap out my computer tower out for
another of similar statue. Will that solve my problem? Who knows! We got
Obama after Bush, didn’t we?
Walt
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