Recorded audio playing fast.

[MrRadio]

For years I have used an old Toshiba Satellite laptop with XP SP3 for recording voice announcements for a community radio station. The station closed and the lappy was put into storage. Now about a year later the station is opening again under new management and I resurrected the laptop to be used in it's former role. Nothing has changed except to charge the battery but now when I record voice via electret condenser mic and Cool Edit Pro 2.1 (same setup as before) the recorded audio plays back chipmunk style. MP3 and wav files previously recorded or ripped play perfectly, only recording through the mic input is affected. Got me scratching my head. Any thoughts anyone?

[Tiny]

I would uninstall & reinstall your audio drivers & editing program.

[MrRadio]

Have reinstalled the editing pgm several times yes time to look at the drivers.

[MrRadio]

Seems like I have the most up to date drivers too and no roll back offered.

[Tiny]

Sometimes if a driver is corrupted you have to uninstall it then reinstall the same one.

Being an audio driver it shouldn't be a major hurdle to uninstall the driver in Device manager, at least you will still have pictures.

WXP will warn you this is "advanced procedure", however maybe necessary IMO.

Then reinstall if WXP doesn't do it for you anyway.

[Philquad]

chipmonks in the lappy?
just a thought
check program settings, make sure its not on 2x on something

[MrRadio]

Thanks Tiny problem resolved with uninstall and reinstall of device Realtek AC97 Audio.