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Help, yet another CD audio problem...

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tom3

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Hi all,

Since a couple days ago, cd audio became really really soft (faint). I cant remember anything I did that could have caused it. I know that CD audio is usually a bit softer than wave, but this time it's different. It's hardly audible when wave sounds are ear-splitting high. I turned the CD volume all the way up, yet to acheive normal listening volume, I had to turn my speakers all the way up. And even then, the sound is weird, scratchy.

This problem exists when I play audio from either of my cd-rom drives. I checked the audio cable and they are securely inserted. The computer is not using digital audio to play either. I am out of ideas..

any suggestions?

thanks,
 
Workin', tried that.. didn't help..

The speaker seems to be perfectly plugged into the soundcard, as MP3's, and other forms of wave all sound normal. It is only the CD audio that is extremely soft..

help??~~
 
Longer shot, and not too much fun: Reinstall everything

or

Try to narrow the problem down. It's gotta be either:

1. the CD-ROM drive is messed up
2. the on-board audio chip is messed up
3. the sound drivers are messed up
4. Windows is messed up (nah, that never happens 🙂)
 
I'd bet it's the CD Rom drive. Can you try another one from somewhere. I had really quiet sound once. It was really doing my head in. Then after nearly giving up I noticed that the External Volume that is attached to my CL FPS2000 had the Balance all the way to the left. Doh!

It' may be something simple like that. You never know.

Good luck.

😉
 
actually, i'm sure it is not the cd-rom drive. I have a asus 40x and a NEC cd-changer in this system, as well as a plextor burner. I only have audio cables coming out of the cdrom drive and the changer. When this incident happened, both the drives played audio cd in a very low volume.

I checked the speakers, they are set up correctly. I reinstalled the SB drivers for the onboard sound, no avail. I pulled out and reinserted the cd audio cables, no luck. Messed with cd-rom drive settings in system properties and the audio settings in the multimedia section in control panel.. checked the volume.... i've done everything i think there is to do.. but still, problem persists....

any more ideas?? is there any other place windows set the volume of cd audio??
 
You be able to select between Digital Playback, (the CD-Audio won't be used at all in this mode) and Analogue. Check out Multi-media CD ROM Properties (something like) and change the setting.
 
DaddyG, i've tried to do that, but for some reason Digital playback is not available (grayed out) in the setting.

I would preferred to use analog playback anyway though.

any more ideas??
 
yeah it may have to come down to that, though i really dont want to since it's not my own computer..
 
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