Sound issues..

[flyboy 28]

'Evening, everyone..

There's something wrong with the sound on my computer. When it comes through the speakers, it's all distorted and sounds like its underwater, echoey and stuff. Same goes for the headphones. Any idea what it is? I opened her up and dusted off the sound card and that didn't work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
James

[Dan]

Hi James! Assuming you haven't done any silly overclocking or anything, then have you checked the drivers? I know on my PC nVidia mixer gets itself quite confused sometimes, but it only needs to be set-up again. Check for environment. Failing that re-install the audio driver or maybe the nForce, but not if its a sound card.
Dan

[congo]

You prolly have the "underwater" mixer effect turned on accidently.  

If you don't mess with the effects and mixers, then they just run in the background using resources.

Turn off your custom sound mixers that installed during the driver installation of your soundcard or during the addition of other sound apps.

You may see their icons active in the system tray, or spot them in a search of running apps in task manager.

Some may need to be turned off in the startup or possibly even "services" if you use WinXP.

Just another possible angle, hope it helps.

[Dan]

Actually the nVmixer tray icon hogs a hell of a lot of RAM - in the order of 6Mb if I recall. Turn it off.
Dan

[flyboy 28]

Don't have nVidia. Or anything of the like. Whatever came with the computer, which is some crappy onboard..

My dad said there's something in the manual about that so I'll take a look when I get home..

Thanks anyway guys.