Acer Aspire Gemstone Sound Issue

Hi,

i was wandering if anybody would know any sollution to this sound distortion issue on many gemstone models. I tryed downgrading to xp, bios updates, some of the earlyer and the newest realtek drivers, new chipset... This is so annoying and i realy dont know what to do anymore as i can´t replace my current laptop. If i knew where the problem is, if anyone could tell me i would be glad to replace the defected hardware.
I know there are many others with this issue, did anyone solve it?
I´m trying since november 2007, tryed everything i could think of, but the distortion problem persist´s. At the time i am using vista ultimate, if that matters anyhow.
If anyone with experience is willing to help and need my notebook spec´s i am more than glad to give them.

P.S. my laptop was at acer´s support center but even they here dont realy know what the issue is, they wanted to replace one of my speaker´s... but what good would that do if the same problem persist´s on headset or any oder speaker for that matter?

Regards.

 

When it comes to distortion issues such as these, you need to accurately describe the type of distortion. I'd suggest you try taking the notebook apart, and try placing (temporarily) a capacitor of about 560 micro-farads across both ends of your speakers {one for each speaker}. This should eliminate any possible 'hiss' that you may be hearing.

 

First of all thank you for your response.
Ok, i´ll try to describe it now and tomorow i will post a video on youtube. It happens often, on any sort of sound (windows, meida player, games etc.) it sounds distorted with kind of echoing effect. I hear loads of people have this issue.
I dont actualy know how to the thing you explained but i am sure i could find someone to do it for me but, would that realy eliminate the issue? ´Couse it happens on any sort of speakers that i plug in. It´s actualy not only the sound that bothers me, it´s this performance loss when it happens... Each time distortion (or echoing effect) appears i experience overall stuttering.
My nvidia 8400m gs was already replaced so it should´nt be any other thing related but sound.
Sometimes the prob. is gone for a day or two but than it comes back again...

 

ive found that updating the BIOS to the very latest version will cure a lot of sound issues, if that doesn't help try disabling the virtual surround sound as it seems to cause issues on some units. A driver update may be required also.

 

Sadly all this does´nt help. I tryed the latest drivers (still use them) and the newest v1.31 bios, no change. Allthou bios v1.31 states "improved bobo sound when playing music", i dont actualy know what that means anywhay.

Thanks again for the suggestion, keep them comming

 

you still have issues with this? I resolved mine by recovering to original Acer OS, but it looks like it was driver related. After that, I ended up selling laptop and getting Sony FZ. Good luck!

 

Yep klas, still have the issue... I dont have that recovery disc sadly, so i can run recovery.
How is that sony fz holding up?

 

Hi,

could anyone with aspire 7720G on vista tell me if he/she has the same issue under device manager-system devices-pci bus-recources than a conflict like on the pic bellow?



regards

 

Sound like it's becoming a common fault with that machine. If there is a PCI conflict then it will require a new mainboard I'm afraid. That may also fix the sound fault. Also a his may be cause if the microphone is switched on. Try switching this off