Hi guys, I received my laptop a few days ago.

I reinstalled everything, and I am trying to use my laptop to do some voice chat with ventrilo or MSN.

It works great for the first seconds like 10-30 and then the sounds really start to be kinda robotic and only really high sound will activate the sound card. And when I speak fast, well the sound is really not clear at all.

It does that with every recording program.
It does that with different microphones.

So it's 1- broken drivers
or 2- broken card
or 3- that card really sucks and you cant use the mic on it


Thank you

sounds like either a bad mic or bad drivers go to the dell site and update the drivers. If the problem still comes back to haunt you then you might want to invest in a new mic.

The problem is that it seems driver related. I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver a lot of time, and it still not change it.

The mic is still fine. It seems to be a codec and driver problem.

Ive tested it more, It is fine with sound recorder, but with msn and ventrilo my sound is really of bad quality. Ive got another computer and the sound is normal with that mic (yes the mic is cheap and its a on-board card, but it seems to be driver related).

I mean it starts normal, but if I talk loud for like 5-10 seconds, I dunno theres something thats activated on the card and it goes to bad quality mode. Then I unplug and replug the mic, and I see the sigmatel input chooser, I choose microphone and its good quality until random time.

It really seems to be driver related, well if its hardware, they could prolly fix that with drivers anyway so...

I really doubt its the card it seems soundcard related... are you suing the drivers from the dell site or ones from some random place on the net? Try turning off hardware accelleration for your soundcard.

Yes Im using the driver of dell with the nice sigmatel panel which only has one option in the control panel (lol).

Turning off the hardware acceleration (from the sound thing in the control panel) make the sound awful the second I speak.

Well I just downloaded the same sound chipset driver from Dell but for a different product. (Same driver but a little older), and it works perfectly. I had the 9400 dell audio drivers (was a little more recent). (2006-03 compared to 2005-12)

I knew it was driver, cause sometimes it worked, sometimes it didnt. I am surprised I am the only one that got that problem though. Maybe there is something I installed that is in conflict with the newer driver. Anyway, it works, so I am happy now.

Thanks for your support.

You can try reusing the DELL driver for the E1705 (same notebook) but considering that the driver your using now works I wouldnt bother unless your getting some sort of horrible BSOD or such.

which driver did you get to work. I'm having the exact same problem.

R114282

http://support.dell.com/support/down...&fileid=150155

The mono thing in your sound control panel will be the soobwoofer, except that it should work fine.