[ale] OT: More on AC97 Sound

[hbbs at mediaone.net (jeff hubbs)]

Chris Fowler wrote:

> I had mentioned before that I believed my AC97 sound was crappy.   think I
> found the problem and was looking to see if anyone else agrees it is
> possible.  I purchased some clearance Midland surrond sound speakers with
> subwoffer at MicroCenter.  Every time I would play something the led on the
> front of the speaker control device would flicker  just a little and I could
> hear a popping sound coming from the sound system.  I replaced those with
> some MLi speakers and those seem to work great.  What could have called the
> original speakers to act like they did?  I almost disabled the sound on the
> bios and purchased a new card.

Bad power supply, sure as shootin'.  Maybe that's why they were on 
clearance.

- Jeff


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