i need help w/ sound stuff.

ok, so my comp died a month or two ago and was just recently revived. so i go to listen to some music, and it seems to be going a little too fast, and the voices sound high pitched. i figured it was just windows media player or something, but after using my computer a little longer, i realized that everything sounds too fast and too high pitched. can anyone help me?

 

Hummm ... I've never encountered a problem like that, so here are a few of my best guesses ...

1) Open the Volume Control (Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Entertainment -> Volume Control), and under the main volume bar, look for Advanced. If it isn't there, you have to enable it by going to Options -> Advanced Controls. Then click on Advanced and make sure that the Digital Output settings is off (if you are using normal speakers; if your speakers are designed for Digital Output, you may want to turn it on).

2) Try checking your manufacturer's software settings. For example, if you have a Creative card, go into the AudioHQ (or whatever program you have that runs the software) and play around with the settings.

 

you may have bad drivers for the soundcard

 

it's been fixed. yeah, it was bad drivers.

 

thats crazy. ive never heard a computer do that before

 

I have a component in my version of Media Player 9.x that allows music to be sped up (without a change of pitch) that I wasn't able to find...usually I would attribute it user-error, but maybe your manufacturer's drivers further compressed the file on the same algorithim, causing an increase in speed without an increase in bit-encoding?

Buy Creative, it's much simpler...

 

If my computer did that, I'd probably pass out.