Noise instead of sound

[Nor]

Just today all of a sudden instead of audio my headphones started to produce type of a hissing noise instead of sound. I do not have speakers and always listen to music or youtube through headphones.
I tried another pair of headphones and the noise persisted. The noise also happens when I move the volume slider up or down.

Its a win xp machine. I am not very technical but think there is no sound card and just uses the onboard audio?

Any help would be appreciated.

[redwudz]

Check your audio card settings. Control Panel>Sound. You may also have a specific listing for your audio card there, even if it is on board. I have a VIA chipset manager on this laptop and one of my other PCs has a Realtek chipset audio manager. There should be lots of settings available there. I suspect one of your programs changed the audio output settings.

And welcome to our forums.

[Nor]

Thanks for the welcome. My wish is to have this restored somehow and not having to think of getting a new motherboard.
I had to put my volume on mute because the noise is pretty bad.

The only things I have listed in my Device Manger Sounds, video are
Audio Codecs , Legacy Audio Drivers , Legacy Video Capture Devices , Media Control Devices and Video Codecs
Video Codecs

I dont see Realtek chipset audio manager or anything like that.

Thank you again.

[Nor]

also I tried to restore to the day I know when it was working and unfortunately no change.

[Bjs]

Try using SIW ... choose the "SIW Without Installer (English-Only)" down below.

Once downloaded, run, then in left column come down to HARDWARE then MOTHERBOARD ... You can simply highlight "motherboard" the right click it and select export > text ... this you can copy the contents and post in reply.

Do the same for "sound device" just below there.

Q: Which ports are you using on the system ... front or back ?

[Nor]

i have downloaded SIW but it would not let me export on the free version. I have the headphones plugged in the back.