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Post by SonKnuck on Dec 14, 2006 13:52:41 GMT -5
GAH! I thought I had that fixed, but now my sound is going all echo-y again! I didn't mind the echo at first, but after a short while, it gets annoying. So, how do I fix that?
Probably a setting somewhere I'm missing... at least I hope that's that simple and not worst than just a wrong setting...
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Dec 14, 2006 14:27:56 GMT -5
Do you have any special audio management software?
I have, for my sound card, a program called Philips Sound Agent 2, which is just a little program that lets me set up what I want my sound card to be doing. One option is for echo effects of various kinds. At various times I've had this inexplicably turn on and had to turn it off again.
If you have such a program, you might check it out. That could be the answer.
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Post by SonKnuck on Dec 14, 2006 14:30:48 GMT -5
None that I know of. Well actually, I do have an icon "SoundMAX" when I go into the control panel. But clicking it does squat, nothing happens as if it was not linked to anythng... But I'll make a search on the computer to see if I wouldn't happen to find something hiding somewhere...
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Post by BlazeHedgehod on Dec 14, 2006 15:29:44 GMT -5
Happens to me. It's a problem with my speakers. When you get echoy sound, unplug your speakers and plug a pair of headphones into the port where the speakers go. Make sure you turn down the volume first though in Windows sound properties - you might go deaf otherwise.
If it still sounds echoy after you do that, I dunno what to tell you.
Strangely, I have SoundMAX too - but my speakers are manufactured by Sony. If I do what I just described, the sound is fine. Generally when my speakers do that I blast some canned air inside of them and sometimes it fixes it.
The only solution I can muster on the subject is to simply buy new speakers.
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Post by SonKnuck on Dec 14, 2006 22:48:47 GMT -5
Well, after doing what was suggested in this topic, it got fixed by itself after a few minutes so I thought "finally!"... but now, a few hours later, it's back! AURGH!
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Dec 14, 2006 23:15:33 GMT -5
Hm.. do you have any other speakers/headphones you could try? If what Blaze said is true, it might just be the speakers. If you had some headphones you could give it a try and see if it cleared up. If it does, then more than likely you just need new speakers.
If, however, it doesn't, then it's something to do with your computer and may require a new sound card.
Not that I know much about this kind of thing, but that's where my logic takes me.
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Post by SonKnuck on Dec 14, 2006 23:24:01 GMT -5
I have headphones on myself most of the time so no one is bothered by the computer's sounds. The echo happens both with and without. That is, when it happens, since I almost had hope for it being fixed earlier...
EDIT: HOLY GOD! This is the weirdest thing ever! The only way to have my problem fixed now... seems to be having WoW playing in the background! Actually, I think that's how it was fixed the first time... that's weird...
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Dec 14, 2006 23:55:30 GMT -5
That's gotta be something in your computer... hm.. you might try reinstalling the drivers for your sound card. Don't know if it would help, but it couldn't hurt and they might even be in need of an update.
Other than that... *shrugs*
You might try checking out whatever customer support or troubleshooting services that go with your computer/sound card.
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Post by Robert on Dec 15, 2006 0:05:08 GMT -5
Actually, the WoW may be the key. I don't know what SoundMAX cards implement, but a lot of modern cards support some type of "Environmental Effects", like hardware echoing and stfu. It may simply have been activated by the program.
Of course, another "echo-y sound" effect you might get from your speakers is if their polarity is reversed from each other, which causes one to be moving inward while the other moves outward, but I doubt that's what you have going on since it is temporary.
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