Sound very low...but volume at max

I have a Windows XP SP2 system, fully patched. One day I noticed
that the sound is very low. I can hear music in Itunes and Windows
media player, but it is muted. The Windows Narrator is too faint to
hear. None of the volume settings are muted in Windows, and all of
the volume sliders are at their highest settings.

A motherboard replacement did not resolve the issue. Also, I have
tried different speakers and none of them make a difference. I have
tried the speakers on other systems and they work fine.

Any ideas? It is clearly a software issue, but I can't locate the
source of the problem.

Thanks,

Jeff


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R
Thu Mar 27 07:04:34 PDT 2008

What vendor Sound Chipset or PCI Card ? It will be indentified in
Device Manager, Sound Video & Games Category. Are you sure
you are connecting the speakers to the correct output. The PC 99
color standards socket would be a pale green socket. However, a
few sound cards/chipset provide for socket configuration. Also how
is the card configured ( Stereo, 5.1 Surround ). What if you connect
headphones to the jack - is the volume higher or the same.

Also is your mixer control fully shown ? on some Sound setups there
is a "Master" control along with the individual sound sources. You'd
need to access mixer properties to be able to enable all the sliders to
be shown.

"Jwright" <Jwright@email.org> wrote in message
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>I have a Windows XP SP2 system, fully patched. One day I noticed
> that the sound is very low. I can hear music in Itunes and Windows
> media player, but it is muted. The Windows Narrator is too faint to
> hear. None of the volume settings are muted in Windows, and all of
> the volume sliders are at their highest settings.
>
> A motherboard replacement did not resolve the issue. Also, I have
> tried different speakers and none of them make a difference. I have
> tried the speakers on other systems and they work fine.
>
> Any ideas? It is clearly a software issue, but I can't locate the
> source of the problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
>
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