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Sound Quality Mystery
There was a long series of events that led up to this mystery; I'll give you guys an overview:
1) about a year ago, got a new PC. 3 GHZ Pentium D, 500 GB HD, 2 GBs RAM, Radeon X800 XL, Windows XP. The sound card was integrated w/ the motherboard, Intel D955XBK.
2) A couple months into the ownership, the sound DIED. COMPLETELY. I couldn't hear anything. I was forced to dust off an external "Sound Blaster Extigy USB" and I've used that for the months since.
3) About a week ago, I cleaned out the inside of the PC, and suddenly the system popped up and said that it had found the card, which had long gone unnoticed and driverless. I installed drivers, and it (sort of) worked; the sound plays, but there's always a static noise and quality is really bad.
4) Hoping it was a software problem, I reformatted the PC and installed newest intel drivers (including sound). The sound quality situation is exactly the same.
5) If I wait a few minutes and THEN boot windows, for some reason the sound magically works properly and beautifully. After about a minute, it will go back to its bad quality.
OK, so anyone have any ideas what this could possibly be? I could always use the Extigy again, but it isn't as powerful as the Intel Sound Card and support for it is dropped in Vista.
Basically, is this a hardware or software problem? I've got the newest sound drivers, and I (believe) i have a 3-year warranty that's still valid on the motherboard. Nevertheless, if it could take less time and effort, just a software fix, then I would prefer that.
Thanks guys!
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