Sound Compromized

> "Brant" <Brant@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:20E06B84-36F0-441C-8070-7BB408177231@microsoft.com...

> > The sound on my HP laptop has become choppy, distorted and/or skips. It
> > effects every input from the windows startup wave file to content on the
> > web.
> > It's most constant when playing a CD. This has only started a few weeks
> > ago
> > since around the time I installed SP3. I can't say it's SP3 though
> > because
> > it seemed okay immediately after the install. The machine has been stable
> > for the last three years.
> >
> > I've done the following without resolve:
> > - Checks status of sound in Device Manager (says device is working
> > properly)
> > - Checked for sound card driver updates
> > - System Restore (for some reason would not restore pre sp3 but now that
> > I've uninstalled sp3, maybe give it a second go)
> > - Virus disk scan
> > - Uninstalled SP3
> >
> > Note: System has been slow to load all processes and the CPU is working
> > harder than normal (fan kicking in, high cpu utilization). No point in
> > using
> > any applications for a least 7 minutes after boot.
> >
> > I hoping someone has some ideas because I'm not crazy about repairing it
> > from scratch. Thanks! B.
> >
> >
> >

>
> Run Spybot, check what processes your have running, check what loads at
> start-up/boot, disable what you don't need.
>
> Cheers,
> Jerry
>
>
>

> Orange, Yeah, last night one of the last things I did was run this, but when
> I checked for updates it started dl'ing ver. 1.6 and wouldn't install it
> until previous was uninstalled so have to try that tonight.
>
> "Orange" wrote:
>

> > "Brant" <Brant@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:20E06B84-36F0-441C-8070-7BB408177231@microsoft.com...

> > > The sound on my HP laptop has become choppy, distorted and/or skips. It
> > > effects every input from the windows startup wave file to content on the
> > > web.
> > > It's most constant when playing a CD. This has only started a few weeks
> > > ago
> > > since around the time I installed SP3. I can't say it's SP3 though
> > > because
> > > it seemed okay immediately after the install. The machine has been stable
> > > for the last three years.
> > >
> > > I've done the following without resolve:
> > > - Checks status of sound in Device Manager (says device is working
> > > properly)
> > > - Checked for sound card driver updates
> > > - System Restore (for some reason would not restore pre sp3 but now that
> > > I've uninstalled sp3, maybe give it a second go)
> > > - Virus disk scan
> > > - Uninstalled SP3
> > >
> > > Note: System has been slow to load all processes and the CPU is working
> > > harder than normal (fan kicking in, high cpu utilization). No point in
> > > using
> > > any applications for a least 7 minutes after boot.
> > >
> > > I hoping someone has some ideas because I'm not crazy about repairing it
> > > from scratch. Thanks! B.
> > >
> > >
> > >

> >
> > Run Spybot, check what processes your have running, check what loads at
> > start-up/boot, disable what you don't need.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jerry
> >
> >
> >