Bulldrek v3.0

Something unusual happened today.

May laptop makes this really funny buzzing, static sound whenever it plays a sound or music file. This is crippling to me because my laptop has all my mp3s and listen to music that sounds worse than an 8-track is killing me. Plus I need this music to keep my sanity during working hours. I noticed that this occurred a day after I left my laptop (packed up) in my car overnight while I spent the night at a friends house.

The static occurs sometimes when playing a game, and all the time when playing music. I use MusicMatch4 to play my mp3s. The sound interference isn't in the speakers. When I plug in headphones or external speakers the static carries with it. I doubt it's a bug in the Musicmatch, because it carries over to games played on it.

Does anyone have any ideas? I'm beginning to think it's a problem with the hardware, due to age and the wear and tear it brings.

Extreme temperatures might be fucking with some of the circuitry of your soundcard. Read: your soundcard is busted. Either that, or one of the connectors between the soundcard and the speakers/headphones plug.

You didn't do something silly like leave it in the car when it was cold or humid, and then bring it inside and turn it on within a couple hours, did you? One word: Condensation.

Other than that...I know I've seen this problem before, but I can't remember where. I'll think about it some more today.

I thought about that, but the temperature that night wasn't bad. 60-70 F

I'll check out the connections between the soundcard. Maybe something shook loose while I was moving it back and forth.

Is it still in Warranty?

I don't think warranty covers mistreatment. Those little stickers that give you the temperature tolerance and such, I think that if you go against that, that you immediately "break the seal."

That is why you just dont tell them "I left it outside"

You say, I went to turn my laptop on one day and I got this static all over the place. Trust me, unless you spill coke over it, they will more than likely replace it. I used to be one of the techs. Unless it was blatent misuse, we would replace it under warranty.

Frost on the inside of your computer isn't blatant misuse!?

Nah, it's just stupid.

True!

Damn dude, that is hard.

Now I just need to get more mac heads in here so I can bitch about my Florentine Monitors not working.