guitto
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Hello,
I noticed about a week ago that while playing counter strike and listening to Pandora radio, the sound would go from a drowned, ( only way I can explain it is the same thing for sound when you see something through cloudy glass ) and back to normal at different intervals, non specific. At random parts of the songs/sound it would act as a wave in sound, going in and out. Became very annoying so I thought it was the just the incompetence of onboard sound (6 channel audio). I bought a SB X-Fi PCIe sound card and installed it and it has seemed to fix the problem with the sound going in and out, all drivers working properly etc. The same day I bought the card, after thinking it was all gone, I go to watch a youtube video and the sound is completely unaudible, the same effect as before, but a constantly low distortion. Now if I go to pandora, the audio is crystal. I tried connecting a 5.1 and optical headphone setup and same results. I cannot think of what it could be. Im using XP 32 bit, all latest drivers for the sound card.
Any clues on how to diagnose this further or any known solutions to a problem similar to this? I appreciate it.
Guitto
I noticed about a week ago that while playing counter strike and listening to Pandora radio, the sound would go from a drowned, ( only way I can explain it is the same thing for sound when you see something through cloudy glass ) and back to normal at different intervals, non specific. At random parts of the songs/sound it would act as a wave in sound, going in and out. Became very annoying so I thought it was the just the incompetence of onboard sound (6 channel audio). I bought a SB X-Fi PCIe sound card and installed it and it has seemed to fix the problem with the sound going in and out, all drivers working properly etc. The same day I bought the card, after thinking it was all gone, I go to watch a youtube video and the sound is completely unaudible, the same effect as before, but a constantly low distortion. Now if I go to pandora, the audio is crystal. I tried connecting a 5.1 and optical headphone setup and same results. I cannot think of what it could be. Im using XP 32 bit, all latest drivers for the sound card.
Any clues on how to diagnose this further or any known solutions to a problem similar to this? I appreciate it.
Guitto