Heavy distortion from speakers.

I've been having this problem ever since I installed Windows 7 onto my machine to upgrade from Vista.

The speakers produce heavily distorted audio and I have been unable to fix it at all.
I have a Realtek Integrated HD Audio sound card, but installing the drivers will not overwrite the stock Microsoft drivers.

I cannot figure out how to fix this issue and I am beginning to think that Windows 7 just has issues which nobody's bothered to address.

I would appreciate any help.

Do you get the distortion if you plug in headphones?

It's not a "Windows 7" problem. If it was everyone would be having the problem.

try removing the microsoft drivers first, by deleting them in device manager, before installing the realtek drivers.

Crackle comes through headphones, too. Provided they're standard stereo plugs and not USB.

mickey megabyte said:

try removing the microsoft drivers first, by deleting them in device manager, before installing the realtek drivers.

Tried that. Many times. Did not work.

ok, did you try disabling them?

mickey megabyte said:

ok, did you try disabling them?

Disabling then installing? Lemme try that.

EDIT: No dice.

sorry, i'm out of ideas.

i'm confused as to why you have microsoft drivers for a realtek sound-card.

mickey megabyte said:

sorry, i'm out of ideas.

i'm confused as to why you have microsoft drivers for a realtek sound-card.

The driver installed itself when I installed Windows 7.