Speakers crackle =o

The sound quality from my 6935g is terrible in XP. Vista is fine though. I've tried reinstalling the realtek HD drivers but its still the same. Is there anyting else i need to install? I've tried looking to see if there is an acer HD audio manager for XP had no luck.

thanks.

 

Drivers issue .... try one older version than the current .

 

I have tried one older version but still the same. With some messing in sound menus I did get better results but still not perfect and it sounds a bit better with headphones and less crackling.

I'll try another driver again, XP keeps wanting to install a realtek driver when i reboot after removing it though.

One thing i noticed is that there is a question mark next to "audio device on high definition audio bus" in other devies but the realtek drivers are installed correctly under sounds...so im not sure if thats affecting anything, i did try to install drivers to fix but no luck either.

thanks

EDIT - tried 2 more drivers with identical results. I think i can live with how it is now since XP isnt my main OS. I just wanted to play a game that doesnt like to run on vista with it.

 

I have the 6930, and I experience it sometimes in Vista
- It happens only if I have a lot of windows open. (E.g. YouTube, Windows Media Player and Skype). Maybe its because it can't handle that much sound xD

It's just a driver problem, and it will problaly be fixed.

 

Have you installed the chipset/mainboard or whatever they are called drivers?

HD Audio, whether from Realtek or others, is in 2 halves. The Realtek bit that needs Realtek drivers, and this communicates via a serial connection to the mainboard chipset part of the audio system. Both halves have and need drivers.

Older AC97 audio on earlier machines uses a similar setup, and also needs 2 drivers.

Sadly the days of decent on-board audio, such as that in my old TM 223, which used properly designed audio boards, are long gone.