Vostro 1500 headphone jack whine miraculously CURED and it....

So my windows XP got corrupted by a virus torjan or whatever, I cant even boot into XP so i did a reinstall without formatting the whole harddrive, just one partition. and after installing all drivers the headphone jack whining problem was gone... However when I replug the headphone the whining comes back... For a moment I thought it was cured but guess not .

 

I think the problem with the Vostro jack is that it's being over driven horribly. I run my WAV volume at 50%, my master volume at 10%, and my speaker volume at 40%. With my Shure E2c's I have to set my WAV at the lowest possible notch and master at notch 2 or it hurts my ears.

 

check if you have the mics enabled, usually this is due to high mic volume

 

Nah that's not the problem, it's fairly clearly obvious they're driving it too hard.

 

i used to have a vaio, when i connected the mic, a weird buzz started,,,just my theory xD

 

That's the volume setting I have to use with my Shure E2c IEM's. At that level the sound distorts because it's so low the over-driven headphone jack can't produce quality sound. The only reason speakers and low quality headphones sound fine is that they're being driven at a higher volume that drowns out the interference.

 

its a different story for the DELL there are already many ppl complaining about that on this forum.

I found this thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=197809
but I'm not geeky enough to dissemble my laptop.. so seriously are there any software solutions to the headphone jack whine?

turning down the volume doesnt help too for my psp earphone

 

i'll check out that thread, BTW i hated that vaio haha