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To make a not so long story short, I was watching an episode of Grey's Anatomy on my laptop in peaceful bliss at 2:00 AM in the morning with a raging thunderstorm outside, and all of a sudden I see a bright flash of lightning coupled with an intense peal of thunder all of which sounds as though it's about 10 feet away from me. The next thing I know, I'm still watching the aforementioned episode, but I'm hearing nothing except static hum in my headphones (which btw I was using to listen to the audio if it wasn't already clear).
So by then I was a little freaked out since I had no prior experience dealing with lightning fried anything, and I wasn't even sure if it was the lightning that had caused this loss of audio, but it seemed too coincidental to have been anything else and I figured it was probably an electric surge that fried either my speakers, headphones or soundcard. So I tested my headphones on something else - they worked fine. Then I tried listening to audio on my computer without the headphones, and still all I'd hear was faint audio with a whole lot of disturbance. Anyway, so my speakers seem to be fine because I hear the same thing in them as I do in my headphones, so I think it's my soundcard that's been owned by the lightning-induced surge.
Here's the wierd thing though, even with the volume muted, I hear this static hum in my speakers and headphones, which is really wierd because I don't know what's producing the sound.
Another thing, my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 600M - I think it has an integrated soundcard. Is there any possible way to get the soundcard repaired/replaced without having to buy a whole new laptop?
I used to like thunderstorms once upon a time (actually till about an hour back)...now I'm having second thoughts.
-Tanuj.
So by then I was a little freaked out since I had no prior experience dealing with lightning fried anything, and I wasn't even sure if it was the lightning that had caused this loss of audio, but it seemed too coincidental to have been anything else and I figured it was probably an electric surge that fried either my speakers, headphones or soundcard. So I tested my headphones on something else - they worked fine. Then I tried listening to audio on my computer without the headphones, and still all I'd hear was faint audio with a whole lot of disturbance. Anyway, so my speakers seem to be fine because I hear the same thing in them as I do in my headphones, so I think it's my soundcard that's been owned by the lightning-induced surge.
Here's the wierd thing though, even with the volume muted, I hear this static hum in my speakers and headphones, which is really wierd because I don't know what's producing the sound.
Another thing, my laptop is a Dell Inspiron 600M - I think it has an integrated soundcard. Is there any possible way to get the soundcard repaired/replaced without having to buy a whole new laptop?
I used to like thunderstorms once upon a time (actually till about an hour back)...now I'm having second thoughts.
-Tanuj.
I have always had second thoughts about thunderstorms.
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