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Windows 2000 Pro Sound problem

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by plym8d

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When I play mp3 files, I hear one channel of sound with a hint of the other channel. I have tried Media Player and Sonique players. I have re-installed the OS, the current sound card drivers and current player versions. My original sound card wasa Sound Blaster 128 then I changed to a soundcard with a als4000 chip. No change in symptoms. I can play the files through my network on another PC and the files play correctly. The Sound Blaster card plays perfectly on a system with Windows XP (RC2). I had no problem while using Win98SE.

System is a PIII 600 on and Asus p3v4x mother board. ATI All-in-Wonder PRO 32meg.

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by fofa

Channel bleeding usually is not related to the O/S. Not saying it isn't (after all it is Micorsoft). But before you blame the O/S you need to Isolate any other hardware. If you swapped the Sound card, and change the drivers, have you tried differentspeakers? Usually this is hardware related. Different cables? I had this once and it was the cables bleeding over onto each other.

by plym8d

Different speakers corrected the problem. I changed the wires and routing of the original speaker and now they work correctly. I had never encountered channel bleeding but now I have an idea what to listen for. Thank you very much.

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