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    Acer Aspire 7520 Sound Problem

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by moodi, Jan 9, 2010.

  1. moodi

    moodi Newbie

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    Hello Guyz,

    I have Aspire 7520 with xp OS. It has weird sound problem. Sound is not coming from speaker but when I plug in my headphone it does, but that too is very distorted. It was working fine previously both speaker and headphone. I dont know what went wrong? "Audio_Relatek_5.1" drivers are currently installed.

    I've also checked sound setting they are perfectly fine.

    Please help me


    Thank You
     
    moodi, Jan 9, 2010
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  2. AndrejaKo

    AndrejaKo Notebook Consultant

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    AndrejaKo, Jan 9, 2010
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  3. moodi

    moodi Newbie

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    I re-installed relatek HD sound drivers but still facing same problem. I am clueless.

    I guess may be it is hardware problem then.

    any other suggestion please...
     
    moodi, Jan 10, 2010
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  4. powerfull499

    powerfull499 Notebook Evangelist

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    Did you install any Nvidia-driver recently? Because all Nvidia drivers include "HD-Audio", and this screws up your realtek-driver. Simply uinstall the whole NVIDIA-driver, and download it again. Then make sure to untick HD-Audio.

    I hope I could help ;)
     
    powerfull499, Jan 10, 2010
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  5. moodi

    moodi Newbie

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    @powerfull499
    thank you for replying.

    I did not install any NVIDIA driver recently. They were already installed when I purchased Acer 7520, and as I mentioned before Audio was working perfectly fine untill three days ago I shutdown my system and when I turned on again the problem started.

    But I will give it a try what u've suggested.. and again thank you for replying. :)
     
    moodi, Jan 10, 2010
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    Dython Notebook Geek

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    sound disabled, with fn+F? audio level with fn+? bios updated :confused:
     
    Dython, Jan 15, 2010
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  7. AndrejaKo

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    Can you describe what you did in the last couple of days before the audio died? Did you install any updates for windows? Does your fax modem work (if I remember correctly, 7520 has one and it uses audio card to capture sound and CPU to do the actual modeming)?

    Another idea is to try to eliminate Windows as a source of problems. Download, if you can, Ubuntu Linux. You can get it from here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download. Burn image to a CD and start computer from it (restart it and keep pressing F12. A menu should appear. Select CD-rom drive as a boot device. Don't worry, the CD won't change anything on your hard drive!). When it loads, you should have sound out of the box. If you don't, then it could be a hardware problem.
     
    AndrejaKo, Jan 15, 2010
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