Need Some Tech Support

[Omikron009]

I've had some serious sound issues with my laptop lately. Certain sounds play fine, but others are distorted or very quiet, even with the volume turned all the way up. All of my drivers are up to date as far as I know and my computer shows no problems. I'm using an Acer aspire one netbook running windows XP. Any help would be much appreciated.

Edit: I've found the problem myself, fools! My computer came with this function that allows you to add presets and environmental effects to the audio, and a setting called "voice cancellation" was enabled, causing much of the audio to be, well, fucked up.

 

[Fenring]

Could be partially corrupted files, or it's a type of sound file not supported in XP's Media Player.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I dunno. You could check in the control panel/ sound setting that you are not doing something like outputting in 5.1 surround sound on your headphones. You can also try turning off hardware acceleration. Your sound card probably has it's own app and help files.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Well, there are only a few things that can be wrong:

Speakers
Driver
Sound Files
Sound Card
Connections

The first is easy enough to test - just use a pair of speakers you know work fine.

Drivers are the next step and re-installing them is generally easy enough.

The rest are a bit more difficult to sort out and I'd exhaust the first two steps first before pursuing them.