problem with speakers dell inspiron N5110

Noodlemantra · 08-01-2011, 12:24 PM

hi!
I bought dell inspiron n5110 about a week ago and I have a problem with the speakers..
they are working (producing sound) but they are producing this noise, like I have turned the volume to maximum on a bad quality speakers (like those old radios).. not sure how to explain it, but it's happening even if the speakers are set to 20% of the volume..
I tried reinstalling the drivers and codecs, but nothing helped.. it's not associated with the program I use for listening to music or with the loudness of the speakers..

any idea what this could be?

thank you for your answer!

JOSEA · 08-01-2011, 12:31 PM

Does this also happen if you connect external speakers or headphones?

Is the sound muffled? or staticy (if that is a word)
If it is muffled it may help proping up the machine since I read the speakers fire downwards in a review on this site.
If it is static, it may be a bad internal connection, can you get to the speakers easily for a visual inspection?

Noodlemantra · 08-01-2011, 12:34 PM

don't have external speakers to connect (sorry), but it didn't happen when I connected the headphones... so far... maybe it would happen after a while... but so far, no.. no problem with the headphones plugged in... :/

Noodlemantra · 08-01-2011, 01:00 PM

sound isn't muffled, it's more like this staticy you mentioned.. it's like cracking and buzzing at the same time..
unfortunately, I can't inspect the speakers visually and I can't open up my laptop cause I'll loose my warranty..

I will take the laptop to the official vendor but it's not in my hometown, so I'll have to send it there.. but since I don't know what could be the problem, I'm not sure if there is any point taking it to the service or if I should just try to replace it right away.. :/

JOSEA · 08-01-2011, 01:02 PM

I would wait out for another owner to add to this, There was a issue like this with some ASUS model that was fixed via software, I hope this is the case for you!

Noodlemantra · 08-01-2011, 01:08 PM

thank you so much!
I hope someone will have more ideas and suggestions and I'll try to find similar threads here...
I sure hope it's software related since the laptop is virtually new, had it for 10 days..

uberanderson · 08-01-2011, 05:11 PM

Do you have the IDT drivers installed? In the IDT control panel if SRS is turned on there are a few options you can tweak, some of them make the sound on my laptop sound like you are describing.

I uninstalled the IDT app and let windows install its own HD sound driver and it is far better. No matter what i tried to do with the IDT app installed the sound quality was rubbish.

Noodlemantra · 08-02-2011, 12:02 PM

yes, I have IDT drivers... when SRS is turned on, the sound is terrible.. I switched it off (and then later uninstalled the IDT drivers) but it didn't help.. it's making the same noise even with the default sound driver...

CommonUser · 08-03-2011, 05:23 PM

Hi, I've got the same problem as well on my Dell N5110 bought just a couple of weeks ago. As Noodlemantra described, the sound from the speaker is muffled, even though the volume is low. Please do let me know if you've got a solution to the problem. Thanks!

Tsunade_Hime · 08-03-2011, 06:08 PM

Did you try plugging in external speakers? Defective speakers isn't a non-rare occurrence on the new Inspiron line.