The I’ve Seen Fire and I’ve Seen Snow and Now I Want Cocoa Complaint Thread

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  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    Has a cable got loose ? - Nope. No cables.

    Is the speaker plugged in OK? - Speakers are built-in, not external.

    Is the speaker broken? - Doubt it...?

    Is the hard drive OK? - Fairly certain.

    You could run a quick windows disk check eliminate it as a suspect. - Been years since I last did something like that. Will need my memory refreshed on how to do so... Dskcheck or something?

    Is there any idle processor time while the audio is playing? - Don't think so...

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    I am so sleepy.

    the clocks are all lie-ing. it's not 10:25, iz really 9:25

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    my asus has a ATI Radeon 3000.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    the ketones testing stuff iz ezpensive. - complaint.


    oatmeal for lunch today, apple and cranberry bits. tasty. :)

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,259
    edited December 1969

    I am so sleepy.

    the clocks are all lie-ing. it's not 10:25, iz really 9:25


    Yeah maybe it is the time chang

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,048
    edited December 1969

    I know my body don't have to catch up with the change

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,204
    edited December 1969

    the nVidia Gforce Experience is an excruciatingly slow one!!!

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,207
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    Massive complaint:

    My laptop's audio keeps randomly jittering, cutting out, getting all choppy, and just overall being of fairly low quality. Whether I'm watching a video, playing a game, or listening to iTunes. It doesn't matter. =(

    I don't know what could be causing it or how to check for what could be causing it...

    Is this files on your computer or over the Internet?

    What kind of laptop is it?

    Dana

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    Rezca said:
    Massive complaint:

    My laptop's audio keeps randomly jittering, cutting out, getting all choppy, and just overall being of fairly low quality. Whether I'm watching a video, playing a game, or listening to iTunes. It doesn't matter. =(

    I don't know what could be causing it or how to check for what could be causing it...

    Is this files on your computer or over the Internet?

    What kind of laptop is it?

    Dana

    Both.

    Videos streamed, games, iTunes, DvDs... Anything that emits sound.

    It's an HP.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    complaint, funland is one big piece. can't move the ice cream cones around.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,207
    edited March 2014

    Rezca said:
    DanaTA said:
    Rezca said:
    Massive complaint:

    My laptop's audio keeps randomly jittering, cutting out, getting all choppy, and just overall being of fairly low quality. Whether I'm watching a video, playing a game, or listening to iTunes. It doesn't matter. =(

    I don't know what could be causing it or how to check for what could be causing it...

    Is this files on your computer or over the Internet?

    What kind of laptop is it?

    Dana

    Both.

    Videos streamed, games, iTunes, DvDs... Anything that emits sound.

    It's an HP.

    Is the computer doing something in the background? If it's doing a defrag or something similar, that may be interrupting the audio. Also, you could see what's available for your drivers in the way of control and quality settings. Have you updated drivers recently? If so they might need to be configured. Other than these suggestions, I can't help. I tried to Google it but get nothing helpful. Most is concerning streaming media, not local.

    Dana

    Post edited by DanaTA on
  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,048
    edited December 1969

    Yeah it sounds like a driver need updated.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited December 1969

    Can a sound card slowly die?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited December 1969

    ...possibly.

    Overheating might be an issue as well. I had an HP that was overclocked which would cause it to overheat from time to time which interfered with operations. Finally cooked the HDD controller.

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,048
    edited December 1969

    Which is why I won't overclock anything

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    oh yep, overclocking those ole 486 processors :) 486/dx2

  • RezcaRezca Posts: 3,393
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:
    Rezca said:
    DanaTA said:
    Rezca said:
    Massive complaint:

    My laptop's audio keeps randomly jittering, cutting out, getting all choppy, and just overall being of fairly low quality. Whether I'm watching a video, playing a game, or listening to iTunes. It doesn't matter. =(

    I don't know what could be causing it or how to check for what could be causing it...

    Is this files on your computer or over the Internet?

    What kind of laptop is it?

    Dana

    Both.

    Videos streamed, games, iTunes, DvDs... Anything that emits sound.

    It's an HP.

    Is the computer doing something in the background? If it's doing a defrag or something similar, that may be interrupting the audio. Also, you could see what's available for your drivers in the way of control and quality settings. Have you updated drivers recently? If so they might need to be configured. Other than these suggestions, I can't help. I tried to Google it but get nothing helpful. Most is concerning streaming media, not local.

    Dana

    Does this whether I've got stuff running in the background or not. :(

    I've checked for updates on my drivers, they're all up to date.


    I think the hardware itself might be starting to fail perhaps...

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,040
    edited March 2014

    Frank0314 said:
    Which is why I won't overclock anything

    ...it was a used one that already came that way.

    As I don't do gaming, I have no reason to overclock. Shaving a say fifteen minutes off of rendering time isn't worth shaving a couple years off the system's service life.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    do you pronounce daz as in rhyme with jazz, or as daze - dazed and confused?

  • M F MM F M Posts: 1,388
    edited March 2014

    do you pronounce daz as in rhyme with jazz, or as daze - dazed and confused?

    "Jazz" ;-)... or I suppose you could have a long "a" sound to be more posh... "daaaaars" (~_~).
    Post edited by M F M on
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,207
    edited December 1969

    Rezca said:
    DanaTA said:
    Rezca said:
    DanaTA said:
    Rezca said:
    Massive complaint:

    My laptop's audio keeps randomly jittering, cutting out, getting all choppy, and just overall being of fairly low quality. Whether I'm watching a video, playing a game, or listening to iTunes. It doesn't matter. =(

    I don't know what could be causing it or how to check for what could be causing it...

    Is this files on your computer or over the Internet?

    What kind of laptop is it?

    Dana

    Both.

    Videos streamed, games, iTunes, DvDs... Anything that emits sound.

    It's an HP.

    Is the computer doing something in the background? If it's doing a defrag or something similar, that may be interrupting the audio. Also, you could see what's available for your drivers in the way of control and quality settings. Have you updated drivers recently? If so they might need to be configured. Other than these suggestions, I can't help. I tried to Google it but get nothing helpful. Most is concerning streaming media, not local.

    Dana

    Does this whether I've got stuff running in the background or not. :(

    I've checked for updates on my drivers, they're all up to date.


    I think the hardware itself might be starting to fail perhaps...

    It could be. But things like defragging work in the background on their own schedule...they aren't things that you normally run yourself. That's why I asked. It could also be a background virus scan. That can have an effect on things.

    But it could be the drive failing. Since it's a laptop, you can't really open it up and disconnect and reconnect the cables or cards. Sometimes you need to do that on a desktop, especially if you turn it off when you're not at it. The constant heating up, then cooling down, then heating up, cycle tends to work connections loose. Cards gradually walk out of their sockets from the expanding and contracting. I don't know that that is the case in a laptop, though.

    Dana

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    Morning. City hunkered down under a storm tossed sky this morning, not sure where the rain is though there's none where we are right now :)

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited December 1969
  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,207
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:

    Nice. It made me log in to leave a comment...but it still thinks I'm anonymous! :-/

    Dana

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,259
    edited December 1969

    I am so sleepy and I just want to listen to my music and snuggly down with Monkey the plushie.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,099
    edited December 1969

    DanaTA said:

    Nice. It made me log in to leave a comment...but it still thinks I'm anonymous! :-/

    Dana
    Thank you, Dana. Somehow I guessed that was you. :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:

    *likes* :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    wahhh, carrara won't find my genesis. can't see how to undock the bottom palettes.

    tried messing with light intensity in ds, a dozen render later still looks bad. can't redock the panes.

    one more ds light tutt to read.

    then i want to find more on camera framing, hoping wiki will have stuff.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    M F M said:
    do you pronounce daz as in rhyme with jazz, or as daze - dazed and confused?

    "Jazz" ;-)... or I suppose you could have a long "a" sound to be more posh... "daaaaars" (~_~).

    i been wrong all these years - >>>>>,<<<<<<</p>

    lol

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited December 1969

    tjohn said:

    yoo playing with the garbaldi/lamh stuff?

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