The volume control wheel on my laptop broke and causes the volume to not go up loud enough to hear. The problem is that it's kind-of old technology and it doesnt change the volume in windows, but it DOES change the volume that comes out of the headphone jack. So I'm a predicament where my volume is always quiet, even if I plug in external speakers, and I cant manually change the volume through the normal windows volume control thing.
I've found out that if I open a video in VLC media player and use VLC to boost the audio to 400% it sounds normal (and not distorted, like audio boosting normally is)
I use my laptop for a lot of music making, and it's really hindering me to not be able to hear things at full volume. Is there any way to adjust my volume? I've google'd it and I cant really find something that works.
What do you mean with "broke"? Is it stuck, did it break off, or does it just not do anything?
[QUOTE=uitham;33984293]What do you mean with "broke"? Is it stuck, did it break off, or does it just not do anything?[/QUOTE]
it's one of [url=http://static.trustedreviews.com/94|6fa119|b2f1_810-controls.jpg]these[/url] types of volume wheels. To get it at max volume you just turn it up until it stops turning. One time when I turned it up it make a crackling sound, and now when I turn it all the way up it doesnt turn all the way up.
But what I'm saying is it's not like the newer laptops where the physical volume control controls the volume in windows. It's controlling the level of the volume that comes to the speakers and the headphone jack.
Whenever I look around on google for a program to boost audio it's always people saying 'my speakers are too quiet I need a boost' and the answer is always 'get external speakers.' Which wouldnt work in my situation. Not to mention boosting the audio for the sake of getting a louder would normally harm your speakers, in my case I just need the boost to reach the amount of volume my speakers can already handle.
I'm sure this is a strange isolated incident and I'll probably end up needing to either repair it myself, or just get a new laptop.
If you boost your sound output some sounds that are already loud might get clamped, and that's going to sound weird. You're not going to be able to increase the volume very much when the hardware doesn't let you, I think.
If that's a pot based wheel, the upper range may have burned out. Basically it needs to be replaced.
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