I am having some issues on sub woofer. Sometimes I hear very crackling or distorted noise from woofer when I am playing music, especially high pitch sound. Is it normal? Because I am scared that one of the technician came on-site and damage the woofer.
Side note, last 2 weeks, my unit shuts down very randomly everyday though the usage is not even pass 1 hr mark. Ventilation is very good as I use it with cooling pad and normally the temperature is 50C and will not go beyond 70C with gaming. Later I reported to Dell and they replaced my mobo, still so far, there is no shutting down as yet. So I think it is mobo itself is faulty. Any bro encountering this problem could report to dell to get mobo replaced if the unit is under warranty.
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I'd suggest your reinstall the RealTek Audio Driver, because it fix for me everytime it crackling, and for subwoofer I think if it is damage then you'll not hear anything coming from it, as like my last 3 subwoofer. and for the shut down randomly, is it you have it idling? Because last month my laptop also shut down (and BSOD) randomly, and that because of a pending HDD failure. If your laptop is still under the warranty then you will be able to ask for replacement at anytime (if the hardware got problem)
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I reinstalled the realtek driver and no success. Usually cracking sound appears when I play the music 70% and above. I called up Dell a while ago, they asked me to plug in with earpiece and checked whether the cracking sound still have or not. There was no cracking sound at all when I plug in with earpiece, craystal clear with the volume 70%.
Shutting down randomly happens especially while I am doing something not very intesive such as writing report with no background programes running or while I am gaming. But anyway, in the first place, it shouldn't be happening during gaming since alienware is gaming machine
So basically, they replaced motherboard which comes up with A04 bios. When I upgraded to A05 bios, there is one message appear "this action can't be completed because the other programe is busy". This sort of message usually appeared when I first used windows XP. When I downgraded to A04 again, this message dissappeared. -
I originally had a similar ? same ? issue with my m14x. In the end I tracked it down to the Sound Blaster XFi settings. I can't remember which one, but basically I just turned all the advanced sound options off in the SB driver panel and it fixed the "popping" for me.
Worth a try.
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This laptop has a subwoofer
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It's kind of marketing sh** that they call it a subwoofer. It handles low-mids at best. But it definitely makes a difference. Warms the sound up considerably. You'll never hear me call these speakers tinny. Just don't expect sub frequencies out of it
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Problem is solved. They just replaced the sub woofer.
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I'm sorry for bringing up this old thread, but I can't find info ANYWHERE. My subwoofer in my M14x is loose. When the bottom panel is off, I can move it around with my finger (not touching the actual driver). Is it supposed to be like this or is it somehow secured? I had it replaced recently and now it vibrates at over 70% volume and ruins sound, and I think it wasn't loose before.
EDIT: Never mind. I found out it is loose. Mounts are missing. Sorry for the thread necro!
Alienware m14x sub woofer
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by magnataur, Dec 15, 2011.