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    Mono Sound

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by snozzau, Jun 27, 2007.

  1. snozzau

    snozzau Newbie

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    People,
    I have an Acer 1694 running stereo speakers through the ear phone socket.
    Recently 1 speaker stopped working so as they were only cheap I replaced them,still no success.
    Balance settings are fine so I wonder if anybody has any advice.
    Thanks,
    Scott
     
    snozzau, Jun 27, 2007
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  2. thegsrguy

    thegsrguy Notebook Deity

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    Have you tried hooking up a secondary sound card? (USB sound card, PCMCIA sound card, etc)
     
    thegsrguy, Jun 27, 2007
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  3. Hairy_Lee

    Hairy_Lee Notebook Consultant

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    could be a sound chip or socket failure, however i have seen the drivers causing issues like this and a system restore was necessary to fix the problem.
     
    Hairy_Lee, Jun 27, 2007
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  4. snozzau

    snozzau Newbie

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    Further to this little drama,I bought an el cheapo usb soundcard on Ebay and I do get sound from both speakers BUT the sound is horribly distorted and scratchy.
    Havent tried the card in another PC yet.
    Any ideas??????????
    Scott
     
    snozzau, Jul 10, 2007
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  5. andyasselin

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    is your hard disk run dma ? is they any model laptop

    problay need sound and bios upgrade is all sound that bad?
     
    andyasselin, Jul 10, 2007
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