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Vostro 1400 Audio Issues

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by bradsh, Aug 11, 2007.

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    bradsh Notebook Consultant

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    My audio crackles, stutters, or skips about once every minute or two, or sometimes way more often, or sometimes way less often. I have tried updating the driver, and killing all unnecessary processes and services, even ones that ARE necessary for networking and the like. I've tried disabling some devices, unplugging all network cables and turning off WLAN and bluetooth.

    It occurs in audio from winamp, youtube (firefox & IE), quicktime, WMP, etc. Doesn't matter where the audio is from.

    Anyone else having this problem with the audio on the Vostro/Inspiron? Is it hardware issue as I suspect?
     
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    do you listen to alot of music on the speakers? its fairly subtle, but its enough to drive me nuts. they could easily be mp3 glitches, if it werent for the fact that i can rewind, play it again, and it doesnt happen.
     
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    i know this is a long shot, but do you by chance have a gsm phone near the computer? because they do that exact noise
     
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    GSM phones wouldn't make audio skip or glitch.

    It'd be additive noise, so you'd hear the beeping pattern on top of the music.
     
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    yup this is not an extra noise, it is a momentary stop, hangup, etc of the sound. depending on how long it is it sounds like a crackle, pop, skip, stutter, etc. it is not an extra noise, although i know some people have been describing that.
     
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    i have it too... i thought i was the only one with this problem.
     
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    I don't. Does it happen with the headphones too?
     
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    movies, music videos, streaming music.. everything nice and pleasant.
     
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    could it be that you blew out one for your speakers?
     
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