Distorted sound

[asiafish]

I have a T22 at 1.0 GHz with 512 MB of RAM running Windows XP Pro SP2 and all of the IBM goodies except for rapid restore.

When I delete messages or do other things that illicit a system beep, sometimes that beep comes out distorted and slow, as though the computer wasn't powerful enough to play the simple tone. With MP3s it will also occasionally slow down and distort.

Otherwise the computer is very responsive and fast, including DVD playback which should be more taxing than playing a beep tone or music file.

Am I doing something wrong here? Is there some hidden setting I should look for?

[g8ina]

In "big PCs" the system beeps are mobo generated, not done by the sound chipset, so it may be a fault in the mobo - but then again, if MP3s are also suffering, it may be the audio chipset *is* to blame and that reinstalling the audio drivers may help. Have you tried that ?

I have the T22, and my audio is spot on (sorry).

[asiafish]

There are no sound drivers from IBM, the audio is natively supported in Windows XP.

[brett347]

I was experiencing the same problem as you regarding distorted sound with the T22 running XP Pro SP2. Other owners of this same laptop have posted a similar sound problem in various forums. This problem did not exist in Win2k. I was experiencing this problem independent of the audio player and format (Eg. sound distorts and slows down with MP3 or WMA format in WMP10 or Winamp).

The solution that worked for me was adding a single entry to the registry by running CStateFlags.reg, a file that comes inside a larger set of XP supplemental files from the IBM web site.

Please let me know if this solution works for you as well.

Cheers,
Jonathan