Aspire 6930 TUBA problem.

Up until now, the speakers have been working fine, especially the 5.1 surround sound. Though, after reinstalling the Realtek HD Audio driver for my 6930, the 5.1 surround sound doesn't seem to be working as well as before. Although I can still select 5.1 sound, there appears to be little difference in the audio, as now it sounds quite treble-like (no bass at all). I've reinstalled the audio driver several times, with the same result every time.

Please help. :S ><

 

Any help at all?

 

Where did you get the driver from?
To make TUBA work you need Realtek driver Released by Acer- otherwise TUBA doesn't work. It's also possible to make 6935G work with official Realtek driver 2.32 so it should also work for 6930 and possibly 6920- TUBA system is the same- you need to be able to set the level of "internal subwoofer"

 

I've been using the Realtek HD Audio driver from the Acer website; though I did go and install an official Realtek Driver for a time. It worked until I tried reinstalling the Acer driver.

I probably should have included this at the beginning; sorry.

With regards to the level of the internal subwoofer; I checked and noticed that it was on 100, but without the "balance" button next to it. ><

 

It doesn't need balance button. Play some music and move the slider for internal subwoofer while doing so- if you can hear the difference in sound quality TUBA is working, if not you will have to uninstall the driver, clean any leftovers and then install Acer driver again.

 

Tried your suggestion; nothing yet.

 

After using the original acer audio drivers ur tuba still dont produce any sound ?
Btw I found a way to make official realtek drivers work, just need to copy the "config" folder from previous acer drivers into the newer 2.44 realtek and ur tuba will work.

Maybe other users already know bout this.

 

Yeah, amazingly. Which is why I'm about to cry and throw this 6930 across the room. ><

Hmm, I'll try that out later, with the official Realtek drivers; gonna have to switch ISPs over the weekend first.

 

I don't think this will work for you but my bass likes to turn itself off and sound terrible every so often even if the subwoofer bar is maxed. It only seems to come back on when i go to device manager then disable the realtek driver then renable it

 

Hmm, thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work. I'm starting to think that the actual TUBA bass itself is broken or something. ><

 

That would be rather hard to do. It's possible that different driver version have somewhat messed up the registry so you may either use some kind of driver cleaner or as a last resort use Acer D2D System Recovery.
If it doesn't work after that it may be a mechanical failure but at this point it still looks like a driver issue;

 

Had the same problem once.

When installing the official drivers from realtek you need to uninstall the hdmi audio drivers from nvidia in order to make realtek drivers function proper again. They often cause conflicts as realtek also provides a hdmi driver. Somehow this affects the 5.1 setup or sometimes only the tuba.

First uninstall both audio and video drivers with ccleaner or similar. Then install the video drivers first but be sure to uncheck the nvidia hdmi audio drivers.
Then reboot.... after that install the realtek drivers again and all should work fine.

PS. You could have found this answer simply by searching this forum. It's been posted several times before.

This is not true. Many people here did an after market upgrade with the OS and simply installed the drivers from the manufacturers site. I did and tuba works.

 

May be. I've tried generic Realtek drivers on 6920G and TUBA didn't work similar thing is mentioned in the review of 6935G.
It may be due to the conflict you mentioned or difference in config mentioned by EvilDevil118- anyway I tried it on my sister's notebook and TUBA stopped working. Similar thing happened to other users.
Anyway I'm perfectly happy to be wrong. I'm going to test it on my sister's laptop next time I have a chance. Thanks for the tip.

 

Well, to clear things up, my 6930 came with Intel High Definition Audio HDMI, instead of nVidia. When uninstalling that, upon start up, Windows would automatically reinstall it. ><