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    Acer 6930 - Windows 7

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by KaneConway, Apr 15, 2009.

  1. KaneConway

    KaneConway Newbie

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    Hi,

    I have purchased a Acer 6930. It had Vista installed and the 5.1 Surround was working perfectly fine. I recently Installed Windows 7 and i'm unable to get the 5.1 speaker configuration setup.

    When i configure the speakers, it shows me only Stereo setting. Can someone provide an idea how to enable 5.1 speakers in Windows 7.

    Thanks
     
    KaneConway, Apr 15, 2009
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  2. ahl395

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    Download your Audio Card Drivers. ;)

    Are you using 5.1 Surround speakers?
     
    ahl395, Apr 15, 2009
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  3. gazzacbr

    gazzacbr Notebook Evangelist

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    drivers will be on your recovery partition or, if you have removed that to load win 7, on your backup recovery discs that you should have created. otherwise, ahl395 above
     
    gazzacbr, Apr 15, 2009
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  4. KaneConway

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    The problem is m not able to find drivers for Win 7
     
    KaneConway, Apr 15, 2009
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  5. Full-English

    Full-English Notebook Deity

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    You probably won't find drivers for windows 7 atm as it's in beta stages, you will need to use vista drivers, if you still have issues installing you will have to run the setup in vista compatibility mode.
     
    Full-English, Apr 15, 2009
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    I'm with bangert here when it comes to using Vista drivers on W7 it's all based on luck.
     
    ATG, Apr 15, 2009
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  7. KaneConway

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    Lets see how lucky i am, then
     
    KaneConway, Apr 15, 2009
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    I've installed Realtek drivers no problem in windows 7, all installed swimmingly (thats if your using realtek drivers!!!).
     
    Full-English, Apr 15, 2009
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  9. KaneConway

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    Thanks

    I installed it with Vista compatibilty which got it to work.
     
    KaneConway, Apr 15, 2009
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    hi! i just installed windows 7 on my acer 6930G but the thing is i could not here anything i just downloaded the driver its says "HD AUDIO DRIVER FAILED!!!:"

    what is the problem?

    and i dont quite get this instuctions

    <<< For Windows 2000/XP/Vista x86/x64 (WDM driver) >>>

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    Setup Driver at first time:
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    Step 1. Before installing the Realtek HD Audio Drivers, Press the
    [Cancel] button if Windows detect the Multimedia Audio device.

    Step 2. Insert the "Realtek HD Audio Drivers" CD into the CD-ROM
    drive and run the setup.exe program to finish the installation.

    Step 3. Click on [Next/OK/Go] to continue the procedure. If the Windows popup
    "Digital Signature Not Found" message, press [Yes] to continue the
    installation.

    Step 4. Finally, select to restart the system and press [Finish] to complete
    the installation.

    The system will reload the drivers and do some adjustments in the INF
    file if so required.

    please help me.

    i don't know what to do next
     
    cueball, May 21, 2009
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  11. Full-English

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    before you run the setup for the audio driver, right click on the file, then right click on the file, then click the compatibility tab, and run in vista compatibility mode.
     
    Full-English, May 22, 2009
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