Dell 8600. 2 years old.

I had the laptop volume turned down to about 3/4ths had the gains turned up just below peaking off of reading the mp3's, gains on the individual channels were at 12 o clock, eq's never went above 12 o clock, sliders on the mixer were at 6.5, master on the mixer was 12 oclock. The only thing that should have been set aggressively was possibly the gains (from the mp3) but not by much (when those gains are set too high, I get distortion).