Speaker sounds cross from left to right?
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I've been having this problem that comes up frequently. It's not a big problem but it gets annoying sometimes, so I'm hoping someone here may have the experience to help. It breaks immersion when you play some games (e.g. Mass Effect) and the speech just disappears from the left altogether.
Near as I can tell, it can happen at any time. Regardless of whether I'm playing a game, video, music, etc, the sound will unpredictably cross over from the left speakers to the right. The crossing is permanent unless I do something about it. Unless I unplug and replug my speakers, all the sound will remain on the right speakers, even those that I know should be coming from the left (directionality and such... I dunno the actual term for that technology)
The problem persists through cold and warm reboots.
Sometimes I need to replug/unplug a couple of times.
My rig has 2 audio outs - 1 on the front, and 1 on the back. Both seem to return the same result - the sound eventually drifts over to the right again, remaining there.
I was using an on-board sound card from Realtek.
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I initially thought it might be my 2.1 speakers (they're very old and losing sound quality) so I bought a new pair (Creative Gigaworks T40, which is also 2.1). Nonetheless the problem persisted. I happens even when I use different speakers and earphones.
I then had an unrelated problem with my Mainboard and replaced that (along with the on-board sound card). The new board comes with on-board sound from Realtek again, so I'm using that now. Problem persisted, to my surprise.
I would suspect it may be the small internal wires that connect my audio ports to the mainboard, except that even when I use the audio-out at the back (which basically came with the new mainboard), the problem persists.
I've updated my drivers for the Realtek soundcard to no avail.
I've installed a new Win7 partition and the problem survived that OS change.
And I have no hearing problems.
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So, I'm pretty baffled and wonder if someone has similar experiences here. I'm willing to buy a PCI soundcard if it can definitely solve the problem - but I doubt so.
Is my left speaker doomed to be under-utilized, forever?:?
Near as I can tell, it can happen at any time. Regardless of whether I'm playing a game, video, music, etc, the sound will unpredictably cross over from the left speakers to the right. The crossing is permanent unless I do something about it. Unless I unplug and replug my speakers, all the sound will remain on the right speakers, even those that I know should be coming from the left (directionality and such... I dunno the actual term for that technology)
The problem persists through cold and warm reboots.
Sometimes I need to replug/unplug a couple of times.
My rig has 2 audio outs - 1 on the front, and 1 on the back. Both seem to return the same result - the sound eventually drifts over to the right again, remaining there.
I was using an on-board sound card from Realtek.
---
I initially thought it might be my 2.1 speakers (they're very old and losing sound quality) so I bought a new pair (Creative Gigaworks T40, which is also 2.1). Nonetheless the problem persisted. I happens even when I use different speakers and earphones.
I then had an unrelated problem with my Mainboard and replaced that (along with the on-board sound card). The new board comes with on-board sound from Realtek again, so I'm using that now. Problem persisted, to my surprise.
I would suspect it may be the small internal wires that connect my audio ports to the mainboard, except that even when I use the audio-out at the back (which basically came with the new mainboard), the problem persists.
I've updated my drivers for the Realtek soundcard to no avail.
I've installed a new Win7 partition and the problem survived that OS change.
And I have no hearing problems.
---
So, I'm pretty baffled and wonder if someone has similar experiences here. I'm willing to buy a PCI soundcard if it can definitely solve the problem - but I doubt so.
Is my left speaker doomed to be under-utilized, forever?:?
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On XP:
Start > Control Panel > Sounds & Audio Devices > "Volume" tab > Advanced Speaker Settings
Also check if you've got any other 3rd party audio setting software (might have been preinstalled or installed with your mobo install disc) and make sure those are set to stereo as well.