-=PCTechTalk=- THE Sound Problem From Dante's Inferno Revisited
- From: "Walt Boswell" <chronicboz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "PCTechTalk" <PCTechTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:40:48 -0500
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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