windows XP audio

[Joan Koch]

I am stumped! I installed Windows XP on a Dell latitude
CPxH Pentium III 450 mhz with 512 RAM. Another latitude
(same model) with only 256 RAM that I installed Windows XP
on is working fine. However, the first model I mentioned
has a terrible screechy noice whenever it plays a windows
audio file. If it plays music from a cd it sounds fine.
But every time I boot up it plays this horrible noise with
the original sound faintly in the background. I have
tried updating drivers, uninstalling drivers, updating the
BIOS, etc. (even putting the original memory chips back
in). Nothing seems to work except disabling the sound
altogher. Can you help me?

[JBM]

I had the same problem only it wasn't on
a Dell. Solved it by disabling programs that
were loaded during boot. Don't know if
that will fix your problem or not but
something to try. Of courese is both computer
load the same programs then?

Jim Manning

"Joan Koch" > wrote in message
...
> I am stumped! I installed Windows XP on a Dell latitude
> CPxH Pentium III 450 mhz with 512 RAM. Another latitude
> (same model) with only 256 RAM that I installed Windows XP
> on is working fine. However, the first model I mentioned
> has a terrible screechy noice whenever it plays a windows
> audio file. If it plays music from a cd it sounds fine.
> But every time I boot up it plays this horrible noise with
> the original sound faintly in the background. I have
> tried updating drivers, uninstalling drivers, updating the
> BIOS, etc. (even putting the original memory chips back
> in). Nothing seems to work except disabling the sound
> altogher. Can you help me?

[Joan Koch]

Thank you, I will try disabling some of those programs
that load during boot.
Joan Koch

>-----Original Message-----
>I had the same problem only it wasn't on
>a Dell. Solved it by disabling programs that
>were loaded during boot. Don't know if
>that will fix your problem or not but
>something to try. Of courese is both computer
>load the same programs then?
>
>Jim Manning
>
>"Joan Koch" > wrote in message
...
>> I am stumped! I installed Windows XP on a Dell latitude
>> CPxH Pentium III 450 mhz with 512 RAM. Another latitude
>> (same model) with only 256 RAM that I installed Windows
XP
>> on is working fine. However, the first model I
mentioned
>> has a terrible screechy noice whenever it plays a
windows
>> audio file. If it plays music from a cd it sounds fine.
>> But every time I boot up it plays this horrible noise
with
>> the original sound faintly in the background. I have
>> tried updating drivers, uninstalling drivers, updating
the
>> BIOS, etc. (even putting the original memory chips back
>> in). Nothing seems to work except disabling the sound
>> altogher. Can you help me?
>
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