Forgot to say that all plugs and sockets for speakers are OK. Green in green
and black in black (Creative Inspire 4.1). Cheers!

"Craig A." wrote:

> Not sure if I can help, but maybe I could help troubleshoot.
> Your DVD probably has a direct connect to your sound card via a small
> Audio cable.
> Your CD drive and HDD are processing through the IDE Cable to the Mother
> board to the Sound Card. You may start by going to Volumn, click on advanced
> and see where the levels are. Check your settings for the input etc, Are
> your speakers amplified and if so do you have them plugged into the Headphone
> jack (amplified output) or the Aux Output of your soundcard. They should be
> plugged into the Aux Output of the card.
> Try it.
>
> "MickY G" wrote:
>
> > I recently had to reformat and obviously update everything. Since I did that,
> > I have had really bad problems with WMP 10 playing music. The sound is very
> > scrathy and distorted whenever I play music that I have either saved to my
> > HDD or from playing a CD. However, DVD's play and sound perfect? If I go onto
> > a website where there is music or sounds, it is perfect quality. Windows
> > systems shutdown sound is perfect but Windows system start sound is, again,
> > scratchy and distorted. I have tried re-installing the drivers etc, many
> > times but to no avail. There are no update drivers so that is not an option
> > either. I have a feeling that something went wrong when I was doing the
> > Windows update with WMP 10 after the reformat and update but what, I don't
> > know? The sound card is a C-Media CM-18738/3DX (cheap I know but it suits me)
> > but I don't think that the sound card is the problem here? Maybe I have to
> > remove WMP 10 and reinstall it again if that's possible? Many thanks in
> > advance.