Poor sound from headphone jack

dulpit · 2008-02-28 11:23:10

Hey, I've noticed that with my laptop the sound quality through my headphones is pretty poor, with weird crackling noises and stuff even when no sound at all is playing.. I don't suppose there's anything that i could do? It's not the headphones (no problem with my mp3 player) but i presume it's just a crappy port or…

28-02-2008 12:23PM

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Hey, I've noticed that with my laptop the sound quality through my headphones is pretty poor, with weird crackling noises and stuff even when no sound at all is playing.. I don't suppose there's anything that i could do? It's not the headphones (no problem with my mp3 player) but i presume it's just a crappy port or soundcard or something.... (It's a Dell Vostro 1500)

Anything I could do?

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#2 28-02-2008 12:31PM

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XP or Vista?

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#3 28-02-2008 10:52PM

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Woops, my bad... It's Vista...

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#4 28-02-2008 11:48PM

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DO you have a built in microphone ? And in the mic properties is +20db boost gain on ?

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#5 29-02-2008 01:05AM

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Its a known problem with the vostro series. Have it myself, one can hear the inside of your laptop just beeping and whirring away.The only solution ive seen so far is
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=165344&page=2
not sure where you would pick one up though.

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