Speakers suddenly sound weak?

[Slowhand]

Ummm, I was just on this pc last night but when I woke up this morning, my speakers had gone from perfect sound, to very tinny thin sound. I checked my headphones and they are perfect. Both are plugged into my Creative SB X-Fi sound card which has worked great for the last 2 years without any issue.

Anyone know what might be going on here, and how I can fix it? Also checked in Device Manager and the card shows normal/working fine.

Thanks for any help.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Ummm, I was just on this pc last night but when I woke up this morning, my speakers had gone from perfect sound, to very tinny thin sound. I checked my headphones and they are perfect. Both are plugged into my Creative SB X-Fi sound card which has worked great for the last 2 years without any issue.

Anyone know what might be going on here, and how I can fix it? Also checked in Device Manager and the card shows normal/working fine.

Thanks for any help.

Is this a 2.1 or 5.1 speaker set? I assume you're using the traditional 3.5mm phone jacks on the X-Fi.

Test and "configure" the speakers again for "playback devices." Also, check the Creative software for that card. I had one of those X-Fi's, and the software is prodigious. Something may have happened to change the configuration.

Also, I've even noticed that on more than a few occasions, Windows Update wanted to download hardware drivers for my system which fouled the works. Always get hardware drivers from the manufacturer, and set Windows Update to at least give you the choice to exclude hardware drivers from the routine updates.

After that, I'd start troubleshooting the speaker hardware and the X-Fi itself.

 

[Slowhand]

Thanks for your reply. Let me start the troubleshooting process and I'll post my results.