hey,
i recently bought an optical cable to connect my home theater to the computer, when im listening to a song n the bass starts to pump the volume totally goes down on its self... now, this is not an issue with my home theater since i have it hooked up to my PS3 n everything just works fine on it.
P.S. i have a realtek software installed on my computer.

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