Yey! Computer help! (Slow audio)

Sharp101

Alright, so my girlfriends 2 year old laptop was acting up for a while, basically 30-60% of the time she played music on it, it would playback slow. A restart would fix this, but eventually that stopped working and I was tasked to fix it.

To make sure I got everything I just formatted it and reinstalled windows (this time with a seperate partition for her MP3's, easing future reinstalls)

This seemed to work.



For a couple days.

Now its always slow. All audio is long, drawn out and slow sounding. Apparently this is carrying over to video too, but I haven't checked that myself.

I've updated drivers, checked multiple players, and updated codecs.
Should I just try reinstalling windows again? I have no idea why this problem carried over onto the new install. It's not just mp3s that have this problem, ALL audio has the problem. Could it be a hardware issue?

Sharp101

Sorry, just wanted to bump this.

Any Ideas guys?

imbalanced

Check out this page and see if it has any relation to your issue. It would help if you could put the make/model of the laptop with all the system info about it.

http://www.driverforum.com/bios5/12612.html

And this:

http://forum.skype.com/lofiversion/index.php/t16065-50.html

EDIT: And a quote from some other forum....

My Toshiba Tecra S1 audio playback was very slow (like a tape played half
speed).
I installed a Windows XP TOSHIBA updated driver 5-12-1-5160 that seems to
have cured problem for slow sound soundmax from

http://www.station-drivers.com/page/analog%20device.htm.

Toshiba Tecra S1 support did not show this update but it worked for me...so
far...

http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/cont...s/qg15sndx.exe
should short circuit and download it direct.

Hope this helps those of you with the same problem (www.driverforum.com)

Sharp101

Sweet, it is a Toshiba so I'll have to try that out.