Sound doesn't work right, chipmonk, and videos play too fast.

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LE0O37

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So I have Vista, everything works perfect, except for my sound, and video.
Doesn't matter if I use VLC or WMP.
If I play videos they play too fast.
The sound on videos or cd's or any music is too fast, they sound like a chipmonk.
It can be with headphones, or speakers, same thing.

What steps should I take to get this fixed ?
thanks alot guys...
 
If you are running dvds and cds I would say try a different optical drive there. That sounds like the motor inside is running too fast causing the disks to spin faster. When Vista was installed here the problem was simply getting the final not beta drivers for the Creative Audigy 4 Pro since Creative claimed it would drop support there. Funny a full version driver set still came out.

As far as video are these all on dvds or downloads or uploads to the drive from an external source like a camcorder? If this is only seen on disks it sounds like the drive being used is seeing a problem drawing more on the supply and running at a higher voltage then it should. Flaky sound drivers won't cause audio to speed up. The same with video drivers.
 
That's an odd one alright. If it was limited to just optical the drive would be suspect. For a system wide problem you will now have to look at things like the bios needing an update to see a fix, memory or cpu as possible problems, or some OS problem unknown at this point? I can imagine programs load faster as well since something seems to be speeding everything up. Are you ocing anything?
 
Nope never oc'ed.
I have no idea where to start.
I do have the cd that came with my motherboard.
What would I install from there and how ?
thanks
 
The software disk for the board will have any onboard video/sound drivers along with those for the memory controllers for the most part. It may also have a tool for creating a driver floppy for installing Windows on a sata drive seen there. For AMD and Asus boards in mind the Temp Probe II and other features are tolled up together.

For this problem you could be looking at a cpu running wild if other things seem odd as well. That could mean the system idle process in Windows wasn't enough to keep the cpu occupied when idle and still cranking when you load it with multimedia. That would be a long shot since the cpu usually will be seen running unchecked on older boards when remaiing in the bios too long. If the material is not prerecorded but recorded manually on a slow setup that would be one thought on seeing things suddenly speeded up there.

Otherwise an acceleration problem being seen with a hardware like the cpu is the only thing that can offer an explaination. Take an old reel to reel tape and record on the slowest setting to see anything there speed up when played back on a faster setting to get that idea.
 
I'd reload your drivers... Audio, chipset, and directx. I'm having similar problems on my laptop(pitch is wrong, staticy) but I've not solve it yet... However it seems to only do so when I go to suspend.
 
The only time I've seen sound and video speed on a desktop was when changing a line of program in an old dos game to watch what happened. That had to reinstalled later to see it run normal again fast there. This does point at something like the chipset, memory controllers, cpu, whatever where some driver isn't loaded properly if there's no actual hardware fault found.

Quite possibly a need for a patch from the manufacturer since you have the new version of Windows out. AMD had to address problems when the first dual core models saw problems on many boards. Vista being the new OS still needs some bugs worked out for hardwares like better drivers and patches.
 
This happened to me last week....atleast the chipmunk audio. I simply reinstalled the sound drivers, fixed the problem. Not sure if this applies to you, worth a try though.
 
Ok, I just updated every driver in the device manager and nothing.
Let me try step 2, and let me google it too.
Thanks, keep the replys
Peace
 
I went through the Control Panel, and went through ramdom settings.
I opened SOUND and changed the Quality from 24 bit down to 16 bit.

Now it seems to work. Now the audio plays at the right speed and it sounds good.

Could that have been it, let me make sure everything works perfect,
and I will get back to you guys

Thanks
 
If you go to Control Panel, Sounds

Click on your speakers, then properties

Go to enhancements. There is a place there where you can change the pitch of your soundcard. I don't know if this will help you, since the defaults should sound normal.
 
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