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The left speaker on my new T60P buzzes unless the volume is turned way down. Right speaker is fine. Any experiences with this problem? Thanks.

Does that happen on the headphones too? Or just the speakers on the ThinkPad?

Good question, but the problem disappeared. It is intermittent.

I have the same buzzing problem as well, and it is also intermittent. I think it's a common problem. It's extremely irritating.

very interesting to see others experiencing this; I have my stereo hooked in via the headphone jack, and every once and a while the left speaker/channel sounds very distorted with static noise; and it's definitely the sound card and/or driver, as I have heard it with my external speakers connected, with headphones and with the internal speakers (ONLY with the "left" signal);

strangely, I find that it happens primarily in Windows media player; almost never in WinAmp;

Question: what OS are you guys using? I don't recall ever having the problem before I upgraded to Vista...

If you're running Vista, I noticed an optional patch via Windows Update today that addresses problems with the audio enumerating properly after suspend. It might be a stretch to apply that description to this problem, but I'd put the patch in there just to be safe.

Did this patch solve the problem? If so where do I find it? I am having this probem too...

Bump!

Still having this problem...anyone know of a solution?

Send the unit back. You have a bad speaker. Those crackling speakers only get worse as time goes by.

stylinexpat wrote:Send the unit back. You have a bad speaker. Those crackling speakers only get worse as time goes by.

again, as far as I can tell--and as further supported by the number of people reporting this issue--this is NOT an issue with the speakers, but rather with the soundcard and/or driver. I also believe that it's only a Vista issue.

Lenovo needs to address this in a driver update.

stylinexpat wrote:Send the unit back. You have a bad speaker. Those crackling speakers only get worse as time goes by.

If it was indeed a bad speaker then how come it affects my ext. speakers too? And also the problem isnt constant....

This is getting REALLY annoying....

i hear some strange buzz on the new Z61t i just bought.
And the buzz comes ONLY when i touch the touchpad ! ! !
Any ideas?

sokos wrote:i hear some strange buzz on the new Z61t i just bought.
And the buzz comes ONLY when i touch the touchpad ! ! !
Any ideas?

That sounds very weird...doesnt seem to be the same problem Im having.

Noone else experiencing this?

i had the problem too, and am pretty sure its a driver program. i completely uninstalled and then reinstalled all the audio card drivers and software, and it stopped happening. best of luck!

sb37 wrote:i had the problem too, and am pretty sure its a driver program. i completely uninstalled and then reinstalled all the audio card drivers and software, and it stopped happening. best of luck!

Thank you!

did driver uninstall/reinstall work for you as well, brikeh? haven't tried it yet...

This happens to me too. I thought it was my headphones..then noticed it on my speakers...then I thought it was my music.

It helped me for a total of 3 days before the problem came back, Ive also tried running a LIVE CD, Ubuntu and the problem wasnt there for the few hours I toyed wround in Ubuntu. But still....its really annoying now...Are Lenovo aware of this problem?

I've had this problem too with my new T60p!

I thought it was just me, but sounds like others have it too.

It's an intermittent distorted buzz from the left speaker. 90% of the time everything is fine, but once in a while, I'll get this weird distorted "buzzzz" when Windows Vista makes the "ding" noise out of the left speaker that's plugged into the headphone jack of the Advanced Dock.

The sound is best described as the distorted sound a blown speaker makes. Sort of a harsh, scratchy, flat, distorted buzz.

But 90% of the time, everything sounds fine.

Again, this is with my brand new T60p, docked in the Advanced Dock, with external speakers (Dell under monitor speaker bar) plugged into the headphone jack of the Advanced Dock.

COunt me in as one of those with the problem. no solution yet.

Its good to hear that Im not alone with this problem. I hope Lenovo is aware of the problem and working on a fix for it.

till now i thought its normal this small buzzing (i can only hear it on headphones-all of them i have), its annoying if the music stopped, still working, and the headphones still attached...but, till now this is the only "flaw" in my beloved x40 (appart from 1.8", but i knew that before i junped into the boat)

My new Thinkpad T60p has the same problem.
Scratchy, left side, distorted sound.
I tried a couple of mp3's and found one that does it consistently. The rest sound great through headphones and ok through the Thinkpad speakers.
Maybe it's the chosen quality when the mp3's was created? also I notice in one of the Microsoft movie trailers that came with Vista has the same repeatable problem.
Bob

Argh, this is getting crazy. I might even go back to XP. Hows it been going for the rest of you guys? Still having probs? Heard anything? Its driving me nuts.

this issue is certainly annoying, but not so much to drive me back to XP (I quite like Vista, overall); strangely, I've found that toggling the mute control can "correct" the problem sometimes (at least for awhile), as can using different programs to play various media; for example, I rarely have the problem in WinAmp, but quite often in Win Media Player and just with the system sounds;

this is most certainly a driver problem within Vista; perhaps we should submit some sort of a group-signed formal request to Lenovo to address the issue (?)

they've sure released a lot of software updates lately for the T60p with Vista, for just about everything except the [censored] sound card.

It's the new driver by soundmax that causes the problem. I updated to it when I got my machine there was terrible distortion. I had to revert back to 5.10.1.4310 to get rid of it. I hope they have this driver works for Vista too.

tebore wrote:It's the new driver by soundmax that causes the problem. I updated to it when I got my machine there was terrible distortion. I had to revert back to 5.10.1.4310 to get rid of it. I hope they have this driver works for Vista too.

R u sure? I mean do you have the exact same symptoms? Sometimes your left speaker goes nuts and gets all distorted?

I just checked my driver and it says: 6.10.1.5140

I hope its something as simple as this.

I don't have Vista. But when I got the latest driver I got terrible distortion and my speakers were going crazy I went on to test with headphones and only reverting back fixed it.