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Oh oh. sounds like you need a new laptop. You cannot simply replace the sound card like on a desktop. Take your laptop to a repair shop for an estimate. Good luck
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Sadly, that skipping sound is most likely the sound of death for your external hard drive. The drive is composed of two or three disks, with read heads that hover incredibly close to the spinning disks. That skipping sound could be the head scratching the disk, leaving the hard drive useless. Your best bet is to contact the manufacturer and have it replaced as defective - if it's still warrantied.
Compatibility issues with the operating system and/or other hardware.
Speaker related issues.
Bad or missing sound card.
Windows XP
Open the Control panel
Open the "Sounds and Audio Devices" icon.
Verify the "Place volume icon in the taskbar" checkbox is checked. If this option is not available or is grayed out, skip to the next section of this document.
If you were able to check this box, click ok and close out of this window and the Control Panel.
Double-click the sound icon in the Systray and verify that all the sound volumes are mid-way or higher.
Open the Windows Device Manager
Verify there are no conflicts or errors listed anywhere in Device Manager. If conflicts exist skip down to conflicts section.
Verify no other devices are listed. If other devices are listed skip down to other devices section.
Verify that your "Sound, video and game controllers" category is listed, if not skip down to the missing sound card section.
If no conflicts or other devices are listed and your sound card is listed with no conflicts, skip to the next section.
If you are unable to locate additional information about your issue or are unable to resolve the issue, follow the below steps.
Under Sound, Video and game controllers highlight each device and press the delete key to remove the device.
Reboot the computer.
As the computer is booting the system will detect the sound card and any of it's devices and re-install those devices. If prompted for a location of drivers, try pointing it to your sound card CD and/or your Windows CD. If this does not work or is unable to locate the proper files, you will need to get the latest sound drivers from your sound card manufacturer.
skipping audio or video on a cd or dvd is generally caused by a dirty lens or a bad disc. . Try a lens cleaner disc and get back to us ?? Thanks Good Luck
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