My mate has just given me an old lap top of his which was reformatted and has had windows xp put on it.
My trouble is, is that whenever i try to play any music files, they playback too quickly and sound a bit squeeky as if they are being played too fast. This happens if i stream radio off the internet, if i play music directly from the cd drive or if i copy music from a network straight onto my laptop and play it from mymusic folder. I have treid playing stuff through windows media player and win amp but either way the play back is too fast. Any suggestions as to what is wrong?

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Do you have any Audio software or special programs installed?
Mixers or studios or whatever?

There are alot of checks via Control Panel | Sound & Audio Devices

Also check the Device Manager: RT click My Computer then click Manage then Device Manager or go to Start | Run and type in: devmgmt.msc for any "!"

The only audio software i installed was winamp which i installed only after music was being played too fast in microsoft media player.

I looked at the device manager and saw no exclamation marks. I have also noticed that playback is speeded up on things like video clips downloaded off the bbc website.

I think that the following is my audio controller if it helps!

Intel 82801CA ICH3-S - AC'97

Try playing an audio & note the time.

Then:

Look in your Event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Or: Administrative Tools/Event Viewer or Start/Run/ eventvwr
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for X errors. Click error line for details.
Post back the source & event id especially of errors that seem to coincide with this time.

Nothing, no X's to be seen.
Its funny cos i also installed some pentax software onto my computer yesterday that i got with a digital camera, and when that software plays videos back that ive downloaded from my camera, then it also plays them at a fast speed.
My computer doesnt seem to want to play anything at the right speed!

go to start/run/ dxdiag

under the sound tab lower the Hardware Sound Acceleration Level.

As to the video: also in dxdiag open the Display tab:
Verify there are no problems there.

Also what is your version of DirectX?

What is your sound card?

What is your graphics card?

Intel 82801CA ICH3-S - AC'97

Isnt this my sound card? If not, then how do i go about findding it. sorry, i know i'm lame with computers!

Originally Posted by Diamond

Intel 82801CA ICH3-S - AC'97

Isnt this my sound card? If not, then how do i go about findding it. sorry, i know i'm lame with computers!

Yes, sorry, I forgot you mentioned that.

Did you try adjusting the acceleration?

Yeah i adjusted the acceleration to a slower speed but still no joy.

Intel refers one back to the board or computer manufacturer for these issues.

What is the exact make & model of the computer? & or Motherboard?

Here is a good general scan for your machine:

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Post back data under these headings:

System Model

Main Circuit Board