Sound on my Laptop is Patchy

Hostile · Oct 25, 2010

Ever since the Lesnar fight when I had to download a plugin the sound on my laptop is really scratchy. It was fine through the fight. Ever since it has sucked.

Any ideas what could be causing it?

the kid 05 · Oct 25, 2010

did you try and uninstall the plugin?

MonsterD · Oct 25, 2010

the kid 05;3644671 said:
did you try and uninstall the plugin?

I would also try after this to delete/ re-install the driver for whatever soundcard hardware you have.

Hostile · Oct 25, 2010

the kid 05;3644671 said:
did you try and uninstall the plugin?

I can't even find it. It was called veetle.

VietCowboy · Oct 25, 2010

Hostile;3644735 said:
I can't even find it. It was called veetle.

hm, veetle is a great program. My suggestion if you can't is to just do a system restore to before you installed it. might work. if not, your sound card may be dying.

Does the scratchy sound start immediately or does it start a little bit after you start up the computer?

Bob Sacamano · Oct 25, 2010

Hostile;3644735 said:
I can't even find it. It was called veetle.

Go to Control Panel, Programs, install/uninstall programs. It should be in there. Just click uninstall and go from there.

That. Or it's in the download section of your memory. Delete it.

Hostile · Oct 25, 2010

Bob Sacamano;3644778 said:
Go to Control Panel, Programs, install/uninstall programs. It should be in there. Just click uninstall and go from there.

That. Or it's in the download section of your memory. Delete it.

It isn't there. It isn't in the program files either.

Hostile · Oct 25, 2010

VietCowboy;3644743 said:
hm, veetle is a great program. My suggestion if you can't is to just do a system restore to before you installed it. might work. if not, your sound card may be dying.

Does the scratchy sound start immediately or does it start a little bit after you start up the computer?

Any audio on my laptop is scratchy since the Lesnar fight. It was fine right up through the fight.

Bob Sacamano · Oct 25, 2010

Hostile;3644790 said:
It isn't there. It isn't in the program files either.

Does your laptop have a download section where all the files that you download are kept? Because mine does and the veetle plug-in is there. It's approximately 10.5 MBs.

MonsterD · Oct 25, 2010

Bob Sacamano;3644801 said:
Does your laptop have a download section where all the files that you download are kept? Because mine does and the veetle plug-in is there.

But that is where the program to be installed is, THAT is in the download.

Once extracted and installed it usually asks where to put the whole thing in, if it is a plug in then that is browser based it will be in a part of the Firefox or IE section for plug-ins.

VietCowboy · Oct 25, 2010

Hostile;3644798 said:
Any audio on my laptop is scratchy since the Lesnar fight. It was fine right up through the fight.

I had a similar issue with my old Dell Vostro. Something was wrong with the sound card, but it would work fine for about 1 minute after start up, but then the scratchyness would set in (probably b/c the computer warmed up and did something). Had to buy an external sound card.

ajk23az · Oct 25, 2010

Sounds like a system restore would fix this pretty easily.

MonsterD · Oct 25, 2010

ajk23az;3644885 said:
Sounds like a system restore would fix this pretty easily.

Yeah but then don't you change some other things you might not want to?

I dunno I really just work on the individual problems so I never have done it as a cure all.

ajk23az · Oct 25, 2010

If this just happened Saturday night I think it would be fine to do a system restore. It just would rest all settings to that specific point in time.

TheCount · Oct 26, 2010

What broswser were you using when you downloaded the plugin?

If you were using Firefox, go to Tools -> Add Ons and it might be there.

I doubt that's what's causing problems with your sound though, define "patchy" or "scratchy"?

Sound on my Laptop is Patchy

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