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Kelvin | Posted: Sep 3 2011, 11:17 PM |
! Group: Advanced Members Posts: 1,871 Member No.: 24,344 Joined: May 8th 2007 Location: Pallet Town | I bought a new laptop yesterday. The speaker is fine, but when I plug in headphones, there seems to be an annoying static sound present, even if i mute the master sound control. I tried two different headsets that work well in other laptops, but they produce the static sounds when I used it on my pc. Any help? // |
Perry | Posted: Sep 4 2011, 12:12 AM |
Like an eagle! Group: SITE OWNER Posts: 8,014 Member No.: 1 Joined: Sep 15th 2002 Location: San Leandro, California | Weird, have you update your audio driver? Go ahead and run Windows Update. See if it finds any new audio driver. If that doesn't help, it might just be crappy hardware... |
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Tessou | Posted: Sep 4 2011, 10:22 AM |
More NEGATIVE than a black hole Group: ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 19,345 Member No.: 12,263 Joined: Sep 12th 2005 Location: Update Profile | Are they noise-cancelling headphones with a battery pack? If the noise canceler is turned on, you will hear some static regardless of settings on your computer, as that's a hardware thing. You can just turn that off and it should go away. |
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khat17 | Posted: Sep 11 2011, 06:37 AM |
IDW SIMPLETON Group: Advanced Members Posts: 1,168 Member No.: 17,668 Joined: May 7th 2006 Location: Mandeville, Jamaica | Try what's suggested above by Perry and also let us know if it's a headset as described by Tessou. If your headphones work fine in your PC without the issue then it's probably an issue with the port. If it's a new store-purchased lappy take it back and take your headphones to test on the replacement. If the lappy is a second-hand laptop then it's a possibility that the port is damaged. An electronics tech can replace that if they have spare 3.5mm jacks in store or take it from off a damaged board. |