I gave up on Magicjack and have returned it.   My headset work fine.  My problem now is that my USB Speaker (which I love) has the same unintelligible sound, whether it is plugged into the front or rear USBs (except for the WinXP opening music - it plays that beautifully).  I don't know what the Magic Jack could have done to cause this - I restored my system drive (Acronis True Image) back to a time before I bought the Magic Jack, to no effect.

I'm  hoping it isn't the sound card (onboard) because it would be no help to me to replace it, since my USB speaker would not work then anyway - haven't seen a sound card with a USB output.

Grateful for any help,   (running XP SP2 -    original details at bottom,     at beginning.
AnnaSummers

Quoted:
In Windows XP The Splash Screen goes away when you use the X but the program stays running. 
It will pop open everytime you use the phone. Poor Programing.   --Dave

> --- On Sun, 4/24/11, 4 computer9f <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> WinXP SP2 (with a few carefully chosen hot fixes)
> Onboard sound
> Power Supply about 450w to 500w
>
> I have had a Rosewill USB Speaker running for about 6 months.  It is a
> wonderful speaker, beautiful sound.  Or it was.
>
> Now the speaker sound is distorted and garbled to the extent that you
> cannot make out anything from a .wmv file.  Same with the MagicJack.
> Although - the headphones still work fine and the USB Speaker plays the
> Windows start-up music beautifully.  To swap between the USB Speaker and the
> traditional headphone jack, I have to choose either Realtek AC97 Audio
> (headphone) and ADD-ON USB Cinema System (actually the inexpensive Speader)
> under "Audio" playback from Sounds & Audio Devices Properties..
>
> I installed a USB Magic Jack several weeks ago and it was fine, except the
> MagicJack damped the phone volume a little bit.  I don't remember whether
> the speaker worked then or not - I don't keep it plugged in all the time.
>
> I installed a driver (setpoint) for a new Logitech cordless laser mouse and
> selected "custom" so I could see what it was doing, but it didn't want to
> install with "custom" selected.  I finally installed with standard "blind"
> installation.  I think I clicked the wrong .exe file to run it and ended up
> with the "blue screen of death" even when I rebooted.
>
> I used Acronis True Image 9 to restore the system drive back to before I
> even bought the MagicJack and then repeated the items from my log since then
> (except for the mouse and MagicJack), and then made a new image.  Since
> restoring this image put my entire hard drive system partition back in
> exactly the state it was in a month ago, including drivers I thought, I
> expected everything to be fine.  Not so.  Speaker still garbled and staticy,
> no matter which USB port it is plugged into.
>
> Could the speakers and headset behave as described if it was just the
> drivers?  If it is the onboard sound, buying a new sound card will not solve
> my problem.  I LOVE this USB Speaker and I want to use MagicJack (also USB),
> neither of which will work if I put in a soundcard separate from the onboard
> sound.  I have seen no soundcards with USB output.
>
> Please help if you can - I am at my wit's end.
>
> Thanks,
> AnnaSummers

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