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Fried Sound Device!

post #1 of 6
Thread Starter 
HI,

It's been years since I last posted. Well, my experience with my Sentia (12") is not so pretty. It's been in and out of the shop half of its life.

Now, I'm afraid the sound module is messed up. There was an electrical surge in my desk and somehow backfired to the laptop.
  • The screen froze right when the zap happened
  • I immediately unplugged AC, removed battery and let it sit for a while.
  • Restarted the system -- glad it worked again.
  • speaker now produces annoying, loud clicks -- i cannot mute it, even when dissabling the sound device.

Have you encountered such problem?

I work with media production here in the Philippines. I have a video editing workstation with all the peripherals lke TV monitors, speakers & audio mixer. I have the laptop plugged in the mixer when a surge somehow crept through the audio cable to my laptop.

I'd hate to send it back to Miami again--it's half way around the world. Since my three-year warranty just expired weeks ago, I might just take a risk bringing it to a local shop here.

Thank you.
post #2 of 6
Thread Starter 
Ok...some updates:
  • the laptop slept and wont start up
  • i managed to revive it by reseating the RAMs, HD, and the clock battery.
  • speaker now works BUT only the right channel and...
  • speakers won't mute when headphones/jacks are connected.

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post #3 of 6
Thread Starter 
bump...
post #4 of 6
Will external speakers work? While I don't have a Sentia, my Area-51 m5500 is hooked up with external speakers that work very well. I was just curious, that's all...
post #5 of 6
Thread Starter 
yes.
actually, it's weird but both speakers and line out works at the same time! so messed up that it by-passed the speaker mute function when you plugged anything on the earphone port.

also, the right channel is not working.

is there a way to replace just the sound module, if there is such thing?

thank you.
post #6 of 6
That I'm not sure about...
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