Resources for Troubleshooting Sound Problems in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q307918
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"MickY G" wrote:

> 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.