If-y sound fluxuation problem

zsuper · 09-27-2007, 10:57 AM

I'm not exactly sure if this is a sound card problem, but I'm going to give it a shot:

When I'm playing music, the volume randomly gets so low that I can't hear it. Then, I sometimes have to move the wires on my mouse and keyboard around to fix it, though it also fixes itself sometimes.

I read the sticky, but that doesn't really sound like my problem; moving my mouse around has no effect, but jiggling the wire does. However, I get this problem whether I use my external speakers or the monitor's speakers; in the case of the monitor's speakers, I can't understand why the mouse and keyboard wires would have any effect on the sound. On top of that, when the sound level drops, it always drops to the same level. It's not fluxuating.

The sound device is a SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio (ew, I know)

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

zsuper · 01-08-2008, 04:10 AM

It's been a while, and this problem still plagues my computer, so I'm giving this a little bump..

Like I said, my computer's sound will randomly drop off to a low level and later come back to normal.
I'm not actually sure it's dropping to a low level, it might just be eliminating the bass or something (it doesn't seem like the volume is just being lowered, though it sounds like it, it's different; but I'm not skilled enough in music to know what's going on).

I've tried both monitor speakers and desktop speakers, both encounter the same problem, so it doesn't seem to be hardware related?
It can happen to any sound that's being played, so it's definitely not a problem with what's playing the sound/the sound file itself.

09-27-2007, 10:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
zsuper Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 11 OS: XP	If-y sound fluxuation problem I'm not exactly sure if this is a sound card problem, but I'm going to give it a shot: When I'm playing music, the volume randomly gets so low that I can't hear it. Then, I sometimes have to move the wires on my mouse and keyboard around to fix it, though it also fixes itself sometimes. I read the sticky, but that doesn't really sound like my problem; moving my mouse around has no effect, but jiggling the wire does. However, I get this problem whether I use my external speakers or the monitor's speakers; in the case of the monitor's speakers, I can't understand why the mouse and keyboard wires would have any effect on the sound. On top of that, when the sound level drops, it always drops to the same level. It's not fluxuating. The sound device is a SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio (ew, I know) Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

01-08-2008, 04:10 AM	#2 (permalink)
zsuper Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 11 OS: XP	Re: If-y sound fluxuation problem It's been a while, and this problem still plagues my computer, so I'm giving this a little bump.. Like I said, my computer's sound will randomly drop off to a low level and later come back to normal. I'm not actually sure it's dropping to a low level, it might just be eliminating the bass or something (it doesn't seem like the volume is just being lowered, though it sounds like it, it's different; but I'm not skilled enough in music to know what's going on). I've tried both monitor speakers and desktop speakers, both encounter the same problem, so it doesn't seem to be hardware related? It can happen to any sound that's being played, so it's definitely not a problem with what's playing the sound/the sound file itself.