I haven't tried other speakers as yet but my coworker tried my speakers on his system and the volume is no longer adjustable - they have soft Up/Down buttons on one of the satellites - so maybe it's a problem of the LCD speakers being way underpowered and the 2.1 speakers being hosed.
I took the speakers off the UPS and although there is now UPS-monitoring software installed, I was running driver updates as Administrator and the app wasn't running. I can uninstall when I get back to the office and see if it helps. I haven't tried headphones - good idea. Yes it's XP - I tried and ran away from ME a long time ago :) Thanks! On 1/31/06, Sharol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried different speakers? (other than the built in ones on the LCD > -- the ones we have with our Dells at school have very low volume) Perhaps > there is a problem with the power to the speakers? The speaker power > supply? Is it plugged into the UPS? > > Did you install some sort of monitoring program for the UPS? Did you try > uninstalling the software while continuing using the UPS? (I hate sound > problems) Do you have adequate volume when using headphones? > > Are we talking XP here (tell me it isn't Win ME, please, I have horror > stories about sound cards and WinME). > > Sharol > > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Alex Davidson > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 11:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Strange Sound Problem - I am out of ideas > > Recently I got a new UPS for my PC and since then the sound on my PC > has been extremely low. Cranked all the way up on the speakers and in > Windows' various settings, it is audible but could never be considered > anything close to 'loud'. > > My first reaction was to take the system off the UPS as that seems to > have initiated the problem but it didn't make a difference. > > I then disabled the on-board AC97 sound card and installed a Creative > Labs something-or-other and had the same problem. I switched from my > subwoofer speakers to those on my LCD and had the same problem. I > switched the motherboard and went back to the on-board AC97 (I was > lucky enough to have a spare motherboard around) and had the same > problem. > > Then I tried updating the sound card driver using Microsoft Update - > it installed but subsequently disabled the card with a 'problem' I > couldn't seem to fix without downloading a driver online. > > So I'm out of ideas here. Can anyone suggest a reason for this I > haven't thought of? > > Alex > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
