there seems to be a problem with my pc. i was playing music in winamp and listening out of the earphone socket, when suddenly the left ear stopped workng, i fiddled the plug a bit but still there was no luck. the right ear continued to play while the left ear remained muted. i unplugged the earphones. and the right speaker continued to play it's music but the left speaker did not. i looked into control pannel and the volume options, but still the left side of my computer will not produce a sound.

(running WinXP + winamp 5 in classic view)

Have the settings in winamp changed? And are you sure that the all the suttings in windows volume control are set to the middle

can you hear with your left ear?       j/k

Well, are you sure that the music you were listening to wasn't corrupted and is supposed to play on both sides?

Also, can you hear music from the left speaker if you use another program? Maybe your sound card was broken.

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Originally posted by PenguinBoy
i unplugged the earphones. and the right speaker continued to play

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Originally posted by blade
o.O I don't think it should be playing after u unplug it

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Originally posted by CookieRevised

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Originally posted by blade
o.O I don't think it should be playing after u unplug it

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as a matter of fact, many soundboards, cut the sound on the speakers if you use headphones, and direct the sound again to the speakers if you unplug the headphones. This is very normal.....

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i tried real player, same problem, a few different songs, wmas, wavs, mp3s, still the same problem,

Ooh and i was talking bout the PC speakers lol
I thought i'd lost my hearing when it first happened lol.

And it's balanced everywhere

does it sound like a sound card problem?

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Originally posted by PenguinBoy
i tried real player, same problem, a few different songs, wmas, wavs, mp3s, still the same problem,

Ooh and i was talking bout the PC speakers lol
I thought i'd lost my hearing when it first happened lol.

And it's balanced everywhere

does it sound like a sound card problem?

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ooooooooooooooooook, i though all computers had sound cards, maybe not,

not that i'd be able to plug anything into anything without blowing the damn thing up, i think it sounds quite a bit out of my league.

lol...I don't have a sound card and my sound own3d all My mother board's stock one is prety good...I don't know how u could test without using another OS on your PC or re-installing ur current one....but check for this:

If ur speakers are plugged into the same card as your keyboard/mouse, u have no sound card.

If ur speakers are NOT plugged into the same card as ur keyboard/mouse then you DO have a sound card - move the chords to your mother board, or get someone who knows what they're doing to do it

When you play a song it doesnt play on one side right?

If you went to play a song now would it start off playing and then stop.


Or would it just not play on the onside at all anymore, because  if this is the case it could mean that the wires for the left speakers may be broken somwhere along the line

Some computers have sound cards, some have onboard sound chips, some have both.
I had the same problem with my old computer but i never soloved it, but hitting the speakers worked sometimes.
Try just plugin your head phones into your computer, insted of through the speakers.
If it works then that means it a falt in your speakers.
Other wise its a sound card problem.
You can tell if you have a sound card or on boarde sound by looking at the back of your computer, and if the plug for the speakers is on a panel that is horizontal, then its a card.
If the plug is amoung all the USB sockets and printer sockets and PS/2 keybored sockets then its onboard.

people posting before me

the music just played through the right speaker, and in sterio songs it would just play the right part.
as i said, the problem occured on both in the speakers and earphones, so it won't have been speaker wires. and also, this is my familly pc, and my dad wouldn't appreciate the idea of me opening it up, even if just checking stuff.
And further, the problem has fixed it's self! i played some music and now it's fine!
nothing lost nothing gained
hopefully it won't happen again.

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Originally posted by PenguinBoy
the problem occured on both in the speakers and earphones, so it won't have been speaker wires.

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Originally posted by PenguinBoy
And further, the problem has fixed it's self! i played some music and now it's fine!
nothing lost nothing gained
hopefully it won't happen again.

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