e6500 crackling audio

Tomorrow a technician will come and change (amongst others) the dvd drive.. I'll keep you posted if it changes anything.

 

First of all, I appreciate the information is this thread it has been very helpful. On my E6400 Intel graphics Intel storage driver v. 8.2, disabling eSata in the BIOS seems to have eliminated the sound issues I had.

 

Technician comes to change the modular dvd-drive? lol.
Please report, if it helped. I had a talk with the support and they wanted me to eliminate software and driver issues before touching the hardware. I was anyway going to switch to x64. So I will mess around a bit with a clean install to encircle whats causing this annoyance.

 

I replaced my CDRW/DVD drive because it would randomly hang my system and the only way to resolve that issue was to completely remove the drive. The new drive is not giving any issues with hanging or audio. My WLAN is the new issue interfering w/ audio.

 

OK,

For those of you suffering from crackling audio due to dells 1397 wireless, I think I may have a solution. It turns out the BCM94312 broadcom chip used in the 1397 is somewhat common. I've found that the HP Mininote 2133 use it, so does the Acer Extensa 4420.

So I downloaded the HP drivers and force installed them on my e6500...and success! The highest latency has been only 1397us compared to 24K+ on dell's drivers. Only drawback, and correct me if I didn't notice this before, but did the wireless light flash when sending/transmitting data on dells drivers? Because with HP's drivers the light flashes when you send/transmit.

Here's the links for the driver downloads:

Hp:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ob-66350-1

Acer (choose the broadcom v4.102 driver):

Http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/ex_4420.html

I haven't tested the acer one yet, but like I said the HP one works great, minus the flashing wifi light

 

Maybe I'm not doing something right, but I did this download and then it gave me four options for the card. I've tried two of them so far and neither fixed my audio problems. Do you remember which option you chose?

BTW, my Wi-Fi light is blinking now and it wasn't before, so you were correct about that. Doesn't bother me, unlike the lousy sound.

Thanks!

 

He's also switching the palm rest, that's why he has to come.. it's said to be rather difficult

 

Oh yeah. That's right. He's going to have to disassemble most of the notebook.

 

urks.. now I'm afraid!