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    New IDT Drivers Solved my rattling noise, might solve yours!

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by EGM92, Mar 2, 2010.

  1. EGM92

    EGM92 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys,

    I too suffered from crappy rattling/cracking when certain frequencies would play through the speakers, made some genres of music nearly unplayable. I found these drivers on the Laptopvideo2go site front page. Installed them, no modding required, rebooted everything seems fixed (at least for me).

    Try them out, hopefully this can help some of you.

    http://files.laptopvideo2go.com/audio/st-idt_6267.0.exe

    Thought I should add that I'm running a SXPS 1640
     
    EGM92, Mar 2, 2010
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  2. bipul_fx

    bipul_fx Notebook Evangelist

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    OMG! Thanx alot. I am gonna try it. Hope it works great now ;). Fingers crossed :D.

    EDIT: This is what it says on that forum: 6.10.0.6267 (01/21/2010) available on ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/R260553.exe with native support for the Studio 1749.
     
    bipul_fx, Mar 2, 2010
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  3. JKleiss

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    Nice find.. seems to have solved the issue :)
     
    JKleiss, Mar 2, 2010
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  4. XmDXtReMeK

    XmDXtReMeK Notebook Consultant

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    Didnt solve anything, reduced the bass and overall volume of the laptop.
     
    XmDXtReMeK, Mar 2, 2010
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  5. bipul_fx

    bipul_fx Notebook Evangelist

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    OMG!!! Bad news guys.

    Both the zip file when extracted detected a Trojan virus on its setup.exe file.

    Snapshot attached.
    I dont believe Dell messed up with the compression of the Driver and never checked for viruses lol.
     

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    bipul_fx, Mar 2, 2010
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  6. FlySwatter

    FlySwatter Notebook Consultant

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    You have a false positive from Bit Defender I think. Norton did not find a thing in the files, all 89 of them.
    Source Zipped EXE file was negative too. (R260553.exe)
    AV Scan.PNG
     
    FlySwatter, Mar 2, 2010
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  7. JKleiss

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    Same here. Mcafee and adaware both show no threat
     
    JKleiss, Mar 2, 2010
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  8. bipul_fx

    bipul_fx Notebook Evangelist

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    Can you upload the setup.exe file to virustotal.com and let it scan with all the antivirus softwares...

    EDIT: I am trying it myself :)
     
    bipul_fx, Mar 2, 2010
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  9. FlySwatter

    FlySwatter Notebook Consultant

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    Sure thing, on it now.

    EDIT: ZZZzzz Damn that site is slow, must have a bandwidth pipe the size of a coffee stirrer!

    EDIT #2
    I stopped (Cancelled) it. No reason to take 20 mins for 16MB to upload. Maybe I'll try later
     
    FlySwatter, Mar 2, 2010
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  10. bipul_fx

    bipul_fx Notebook Evangelist

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    Yes. Even I am trying. I guess it has too much server load. Still sending file :(

    Edit: I did the scan on the particular file and no infrctions were detected, not even from bitdefender:O.
    Sorry for the inconvenience guys :(.
     
    bipul_fx, Mar 3, 2010
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  11. RubberyDuck

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    Checked both files with NOD32, found no issues.

    Thanks for the update.

    Regards,

    RD.
     
    RubberyDuck, Mar 3, 2010
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  12. nikolay.t

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    So, does the driver solve the issue ?

    Nikolay
     
    nikolay.t, Mar 3, 2010
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  13. HeadHunter

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    No this problem can't be solved by any software since it's a HARDWARE or rather DESIGN PROBLEM...only thing that dell did with this is as XmDXtReMeK said:

     
    HeadHunter, Mar 3, 2010
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  14. chewyeong90

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    It did reduce the overall volume. Not a proper fix :(
     
    chewyeong90, Mar 3, 2010
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  15. DuranXL

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    You mean speaker rattle? It's a hardware problem.. Sure you can fix it; put your volume at 1%. Voila! no rattle
     
    DuranXL, Mar 3, 2010
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