Acer 8930G Audio Decoder

Hi

I have installed windows 7 64 bit and I have one problem. Acer arcade deluxe is telling me that my audio decoder is 2 channel and will not let me select 5.1. As a result, blu ray and movies play in 2 channel and they are the left 2 channels too, not very nice to listen to!

The weird thing is, in windows I get sound from all speakers!

Anyone know what I do? Or shall I just go back to vista until October?

Can someone with vista have a look at the arcade, go to settings and then about, it says the decoder there, does yours say 2 channel or 5.1? I am sure I was given the option to select 5.1 when I had vista but I have only had the laptop for a week or so.

Cheers

 

Hi, have you installed the realtek drivers? http://218.210.127.131/downloads/ExpressFTPSite.aspx?DownTypeID=3&DownID=575&PFid=24&Conn=3
Chris

 

Hi

Sure have.
I reset it back to vista this morning and on the arcade it says 6 channel audio decoder.

So something is wrong somewhere on this, I want to use windows 7 but dont if I cant play blu ray in all the speakers. It is weird because if I watch a video on youtube then all the speakers work (but obviously the sound isnt surround sound as most people do not make videos with a camera that can do that).

Anyone else have any ideas?

I was thinking maybe I could copy the drivers from windows vista and use it on windows 7. But my vista is 32 but and windows 7 is 64 bit ultimate.

Stuck

 

Just tried copying all the dll files and putting them into windows 7 but they were 32 bit versions and didnt work.

Surely there must be someone out there that has an 8930g running windows 7 64 bit (or 32 bit) and either has the arcade thing running fine or the same problem as me?

Another thing I could look at to get around this is maybe to see if there is another software I can download to watch blu ray films?

 

Hi
Those drivers have set my whole system to a 2 speaker config, so basically worse than before.

Ill wait for a few hours to see if anyone else has this issue and then decide, but looking like Ill need to install vista 64 again

Everything is great apart from this one thing too!!

Another question too, why does it not let me change files in windows and windows\system32? I am an admin, but some of the permissions are not full and they are all greyed out, it is my system I should be able to do what I want, anyone know how to change this?

I have copied all the .dll and .sys files from vista and hoping that I can copy them into the system32 folder of windows 7 but at the moment it says access denied.

 

I have this same problem with arcade deluxe in that there is only the 2 speaker option. I had the 6 channel option in vista 32 when I first had the laptop but have been unable to get it back since. I have restored it from erecovery and the option was missing tried it in vista x64 and windows 7 x64 and x86. I cannot get the 6 channel option back in any os. How did you get it back? Did you restore from a back up or recovery disc?