For any You Tube users who accidentally stumbled on this video and wasted their time watching it I’m very sorry, I’m just looking for help. Whenever one of my CD/DVD disk drives is active, the sound through the speakers from my computer becomes choppy and very scratchy, is there any reason/solution for this problem. By active I mean either burning or playing a DVD or CD. When the drives are inactive the sound is excellent. The problem is not because of the speakers, I have tested it myself, the Windows troubleshoot does not detect any hardware conflict either, however I don’t believe it to be true. My guess is that the drive cables are interrupting the motherboards activity via electromagnetic fields but there not even in contact with the mother board, however the rest of the system continues to functions normally when drives are active. Though, when playing CD or DVD games, after installing them the sound remains normal during play? While on my computer playing music, with good quality, and then activating a Disk Dive/ Ripping a disk, this distorts the sound and then deactivating the Disk Dive/ Canceling the Rip, which returns the sound to normal. When playing CD’s or DVD Movies off the drives the problem comes up still. I’m hoping the problem is through operator error or a minor software problem. The problem also comes up in all programs not just Windows Media Player. You might not hear it but when playing that Journey song off the CD drive there was some distortion. If …
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Please Help- Audio Problem With Gateway GT5238E
