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Cracking, dragging sound, causes video lag..struggling for 6 months!!
I'm not very good with computers, so I'll try to explain this the best I can.
I have a Toshiba laptop that came with Vista. I upgraded to Windows 7 home premium 64 bit Around 6-8 months ago, my computer started to get sound that pops, cracks, and drags, and when it does this is also lags the computer, including any video I'm watching. It only lags when I am doing something with sound, or something like taking the computer out of sleep mode, etc.
I have tried EVERYTHING I could think of so far other than a complete re-install of windows 7. The reason for this is that I have some programs installed on this computer currently that I cannot replace without buying them again. (lost CD's, mostly) So I'd like to avoid this problem if at all possible.
I have updated my sound drivers to the newest ones from Realtek, and it helped for about an hour and then the popping and cracking sounds came back. I also did a system restore as far back as possible without losing my programs, to no avail.
I also tried suggestions of a few friends, which included muting the computer sound, changing around some of the sound configurations, and bringing down the audio format of my driver from Studio to CD, also to no avail.
I had this same problem on my Acer mini laptop after a few months of installing Windows 7, which I ended up selling because I couldn't get rid of the problem! I am starting college soon, and I really need a functional laptop to work with.
If anyone knows of a way to fix this problem, PLEASE let me know. I cannot stand this any longer, I really want to be actually able to listen to music and play videos and games on my computer again!
Also, This transfers over to songs that I download, as well. I bought a song from iTunes and put it on my mp3 player, and the cracking had transfered over to it as well!
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Well, that's fantastic. I installed the automatic windows updates and now I have no sound or video at all.
Last edited by Foobun; 25 Mar 2011 at 18:26.