This maybe silly but since you did not say if you tried different speakers or
not,  I would try a known pair of good speakers. Maybe try some headphones in
the output jack and see how the sound is?

"Paul J. Traynor" wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Recently I put in a new soundcard  into an I.B.M. Activia 500 mhz, 128 ram
> with windows 98.
>
> The problem is that in the first place why I replaced the soundcard which
> was already in there was that there was a very bad scraping sound coming
> from the speakers when you turned them up.  I then tried to use the
> microphone in sound recorder and the resulting file was terrible with the
> scraping sound  overriding my voice....

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