Laptop, scratchy sound.

roadster1

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Found another post elsewhere saying use XP SP3 mode on the Dell Driver executable ? Worth deleting driver and trying that too your call

Nope , no difference.........

I'll try the clean install on another partition later this week.

debitcardmayhem

Good Luck then, better go to bed got to go hospital 2 morrow am. Will keep an eye out anyway

roadster1

I am getting closer to resolving this problem. It is something to do with the cd drive. For example I am just formatting an R/W disk and the sound is OK. A while ago I was playing an SVCD disk and the sound was OK.

I'll play around with it and see if I can nail it down unless anyone has had this before?

debitcardmayhem

roadster1 wrote: »

I am getting closer to resolving this problem. It is something to do with the cd drive. For example I am just formatting an R/W disk and the sound is OK. A while ago I was playing an SVCD disk and the sound was OK.

I'll play around with it and see if I can nail it down unless anyone has had this before?

Mute the CD playback perhaps , and does it sound ok when just playing a CD (unmuted of course)

roadster1

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Mute the CD playback perhaps , and does it sound ok when just playing a CD (unmuted of course)

It's fine with a cd just sitting in the drive doing nothing! The EXACTLY 1 second between scratches must be the drive looking for a disk being inserted?

Just going out so will play more later..........

Technomancer

Hi Roadster.
I don't know if this might help.

I recently purchased a Toshiba T110-107 with Window 7 Home installed. I thought the sound was a bit quiet and scratchy for a new laptop. Through playing around i have found that Win7 has some failings compared with Win XP, particularly with the sound settings. Even with the master volume on full i could barely hear anything. I'm not sure what exactly i did but i found that there seems to be separate volume controls for different sound sources. Well, i fiddled about and have now got a decent sound level and there's also an equalizer in there somewhere.

Try looking at that, meantime i'll see if i can find out what i did.

'T'

[Deleted User]

If you mean separate programs when you say 'separate sound sources', then you can adjust them by clicking the speaker icon on the taskbar and then clicking 'mixer'. If you meant something more than that, then it will be an option provided by your particular sound card driver rather than Windows 7 itself.

roadster1

When I went to load Windows 7 I found that the CD Drive had packed in. I bought a cheap one off ebay and loaded W7. with me so far? I have just found this.........

I have an Inspiron 6000 and since I have flashed the TSST TS-L462C drive to the DE07 firmware, the computer freeze a short time every second. I can't listen music (from the hard drive) anymore with any player (window media player, winamp,...) : there is a noise (click) every second.

It is very annoying.

I have found a partial workaround : if you insert a CD in the drive (even a blank CD-R), the problem disapears (even if you remove the disk, but the bug comes back when you reboot, unless there is a CD in the drive at this time).

I have tried to downgrade to an older firmware, but the flash utility (sfdnwin) refuses to do so.

..........on the Dell Community website.

[Deleted User]

You can try running the firmware flash program from the command line with the -nocheck argument. Alternatively, Dell have a newer DE08 firmware:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&releaseid=R147358&SystemID=PWE_PNT_P3C_2850&service!!!!!&os=WNET&osl=en&deviceid=7963&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=3&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=32&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=197370

roadster1

tentonine wrote: »

You can try running the firmware flash program from the command line with the -nocheck argument. Alternatively, Dell have a newer DE08 firmware:
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz&releaseid=R147358&SystemID=PWE_PNT_P3C_2850&service!!!!!&os=WNET&osl=en&deviceid=7963&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=3&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=0&libid=32&typeid=-1&dateid=-1&formatid=-1&fileid=197370

Giving DE08 a go as we speak. The drive is on the problematic DE07. Will have to wait a bit as I didn't see the easy DE08 firmware so just creating a bootable usb stick and its taking ages......