laptop speakers echo

I originally posted this in the miscellaneous section but was advised to repost here in the Windows forum. My problem: I have a 14-month old Toshiba Satellite M55 laptop, running Windows XP Home SP2. About a month ago, my built-in speakers (Harman/Kardon) started to echo. Every sound that now comes from these speakers has an echo to it. This is also true of any external speakers that I attach to my laptop. My computer uses a Realtek AC97 audio device. I have scoured the internet for a solution but have not found anything. I can not find any answers to this problem within any of the help files on my computer either. How do I rid my laptop of this maddening echo?

re: laptop speakers echo

It sounds like a driver error go here: Toshiba Drivers

download the latest update and install.

good luck

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I would check if the microphone volume is on, if so mute it.
This should resolve the issue for you.

let us know who you get on.

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I downloaded and reinstalled my audio driver [Realtek AC97] and it solved the problem. No more echo. Thanks much for the guidance.

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That's why epots9 is the expert around here. epots9 is usually right about such things.

Thanks for the update.

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Thanks bartonc,
i got aot of experience with sound cards, my desktop likes to randomly forget its there...so i have to power cycle my system...fun.

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hi i have the same problem but with a hp with vista

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Well then the solution is analogous to this one. So all you have to do is search google for where to download the drivers for your machine, download the latest audio driver, and install it. If that doesn't solve the problem, you might have something else going on.