noisy sound card on acer laptop

[Unregistered]

hi
I wonder if you guys can help me,
i use my laptop to tape live radio thru my soundcard , and when i plug in to my Acer laptop Input i hear a noisy distortion...(i dont have the same problem on toshiba or thinkpad from IBM) and nothing about this problem on acr website...

[jharriso]

Weird... I'd say to try the standard run down, if you haven't yet, reinstall the drivers, try it with other input devices, etc. If that doesn't work, short of sending it in for warranty service to check that the audio chipset isn't fried, your best option would be an expansion card sound card, like one of the PCMCIA cards made by soundblaster.

[dparm]

Creative also makes USB sound cards, such as the Audigy 2 NX.

Most laptop headphone/microphone jacks are lousy quality. Dell had a problem for a while with a lot of their Inspiron laptops generating a hissing feedback sound.

[nlopez]

Noisy distortion? Like maybe you're plugged into a microphone port, not line in?

[Unregistered]

[QUOTE=Unregistered;19288]hi
I wonder if you guys can help me, my Acer laptop
has no sound card and i need 2 no what it looks like and were do i put it

[Unregistered]

ive just bought an acer and i'm having the same problem... it's because the headphone output is a signal it too high... the only way is to get a sound card. behringer do a cheapy at about £20. it's not totally silent but it's 100 times better than what you've got...good luck

[alwalker]

Also, unplug the laptop and run on battery for a bit if you can. Try recording the radio like that and see if you get the interference issues. Oftentimes, distortion can come through noise in the power lines. It sounds kind-of crazy, but when you do any audio work and you're running through a power line, you can get a lot of noise.
This probably varies from laptop to laptop, and it also depends on whether you use a surge protector. Surge protectors have helped me get rid of some similar noise issues in the past, but unplugging the machine usually cut out the problem entirely.
Good luck!