Right side sound doesnt work!!!

[mattzweb]

I have no idea what happened. My right speaker does not play sound, just a low static sound. Its very low, I have to put my ear up to it to hear it. I thought it was just blown out or something, but when I plugged my headphones into my computer the right side didnt work. Why wont sound come out of the right, only out of the left?

 

[amdskip]

Try reinstalling the driver.

 

[mattzweb]

I updated the driver, didnt help. Should I uninstall it, then reinstall it?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Make sure you don't have the balance set all the way to the left in your sound utility program.

Uninstalling and reinstalling it would be a good thing to try too.

 

[mattzweb]

How would I uninstall the drivers? Would it be in Add/Remove Programs?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: mattzweb
How would I uninstall the drivers? Would it be in Add/Remove Programs?

It should be. What kind of sound are you using?

 

[amdskip]

Don't cross post in multiple sections of the forums.

 

[mattzweb]

OK, I reinstalled drivers. Still the same. I think one of the wires is broken or something.

Im using onboard sound.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Are you absolutely sure you have the jack plugged in all the way? Try rotating it around and jiggling it to see if you just have a bad connection.

Does your onboard sound have the ability to reassign any of the jacks? (like change line-in to line-out or something)

If so, you could try to reassign one of them to do stereo out or line-out and hook up to that one. If it's just one of your jacks going back, that might solve it.

 

[ghidu]

have you tried diferent players? maybe it's the software. for example, winamp has an option to lower the volume on only one speaker.
so try another player and look into audio settings too (control panels).

 

[mattzweb]

Ok, I tried something new. I switched the cord on the woofer so the right speaker was plugged into left in, and left speaker into right in. That made the right speaker work, but not the left speaker! I have no idea, maybe the woofer is messed up.

 

[mattzweb]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello


Does your onboard sound have the ability to reassign any of the jacks? (like change line-in to line-out or something)

If so, you could try to reassign one of them to do stereo out or line-out and hook up to that one. If it's just one of your jacks going back, that might solve it.

No idea what that means, sorry.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

If the headphones didn't work correctly either, it's a problem before it gets to the speakers.

 

[mattzweb]

Originally posted by: ghidu
have you tried diferent players? maybe it's the software. for example, winamp has an option to lower the volume on only one speaker.
so try another player and look into audio settings too (control panels).

I have tried Winamp, WMP, Foobar, and I tried playing a dvd in WinDVD. All with the same results

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: mattzweb

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello


Does your onboard sound have the ability to reassign any of the jacks? (like change line-in to line-out or something)

If so, you could try to reassign one of them to do stereo out or line-out and hook up to that one. If it's just one of your jacks going back, that might solve it.

No idea what that means, sorry.

In your sound utility program does it give you any options for changing the sound settings (like 2.1, 5.1, 4.1, etc.)

You have a 2.1 set, right?

 

[mattzweb]

Yes, it is a 2.1 set

 

[imported_rod]

You said it was onboard sound, right. What is the make/model of the motherboard?

RoD

 

[mattzweb]

Soyo P4I865PE Plus v1.0

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

If the onboard allows you to select different modes (like 4.1) try to set it to that and plug into the newly assigned jack for rear output.

 

[mattzweb]

Would I do that in the Xear3D program that came with the mobo?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: mattzweb
Would I do that in the Xear3D program that came with the mobo?

yes (I think, I don't have the board, but it sounds right)

 

[mattzweb]

I can change the ammount of speakers, if that's what you mean. I have it set to 2.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: mattzweb
I can change the ammount of speakers, if that's what you mean. I have it set to 2.

set it to 4 and then plug into the jack that would be outputting the rear signal (hopefully it would tell you, but I'd guess the blue one)

 

[mattzweb]

Tried it, didnt get ANY sound.

 

[mattzweb]

I realized something. I JUST installed a PCI TV Tuner card. COuld I have messed something up?