Sound woes! (Yes I have read all relevant threads)

I have an Asus G73JH running windows x64.

I've tried installing Creative Audigy over the top of the Realtek drivers listed on the Asus site, it returns an error saying no supported device is found, setup will exit etc.

I've tried installing it on top of the modified 2.48 Realtek drivers, same thing.

I've followed the instructions in the modified 2.48 driver & X-Fi thread, but whenever I tried to use X-Fi or open something it would tell me that I didn't have a compatible device installed.

I just want a bass boost and some decent damned sound! If I have to restart this machine many more times it's going to single handedly force me into the SSD market ^_^

Any and every helpful piece of advise will be much appreciated.

 

First I would stick to one of the two methods.

A) http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...creative-mb-upgrade-g73jh-13.html#post6913757

B) http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...ative-x-fi-mb-your-g73-realtek-hd-2-48-a.html

I did "B", and it took a while to get it to work. I had to uninstall everything, reboot into safe mode, driver sweep creative, reboot into safe mode, driver sweep creative again, reboot into safe mode, driver sweep creative a 3rd time, and then reboot, and install using the the instruction in the thread.

Your questions would be better answered inside the thread you are using.

The only real difference between Augigy (plan A) and X-fi (plan B) is that X-fi offers the Crystalizer, which adds highs and lows to compressed music, AFAIK.

 

There are plenty of threads about this what are you reposting for haha

Well you are doing right by using 2.48 because that is the one I find most stable but creative 1.00 with 2.48 does work for me and I have not tried the X-fi MB or anything like that because strangely I have never had a problem.

Firstly remove all Creative crap
Then run setup 2.48 once to uninstall and restart
Once restarted run it again to reinstall 2.48 and restart
Then get Creative 1.00 from either the driver disc that came with your lappy or from Chastity's Driver Page and install it and then restart once more.

 

I've already tried both of those things *shrugs*

Still no dice with it being recognised. Is this a "try-it-'til-it-works" type thing? :/

 

Pretty much the G73 is a funny animal it changes it skin from time to time I dread the having to reinstall windows experience because my video/sound/mouse issues always show their face temporarily until I get the drivers back to normal.

You have to just keep fiddling with it uninstall restart even go in and delete the driver manually until its back to a standard audio device and then try again.

 

1) Uninstall what Realtek you have now, reboot, and Install stock Realtek driver reboot
2) Install Creative, reboot, confirm working
3) Uninstall realtek, reboot
4) Install updated Realtek

 

here comes my story

i have a G73JH which have a Realtek HD audio
i have been using the stock Sound blaster audigy which had some options to adjust the sound but not like the X-fi package (and i didn't had any problems installing it ...no modded drivers needed)

i am a member in notebookreview and there was a thread long time ago about X-fi package 1.1 +2.48 Realtek drivers (modded by Alexa) and a lot of people were complaining that couldn't install the X-fi package .... and there were some that can't install it after fresh Clean OS

then couple days ago some guy posted a link which was leading right here (X-fi 1.2 +2.59 Realtek) and i decided to try it out

and i did all the same like in the instructions but that didn't worked....then i tryed the 1.3 package and other realtek drivers posted on the second page ... that didn't worked too
tried also with the old 2.48 drivers +X-fi 1.1 but no success

i have waste a lot of time believe me to get this thing working (what a nightmare)
i have made thousands of uninstalls reinstalls , restarts cleaned the registry manually for every "creative" and "realtek" entry but no sucess

here comes the good part
actually i can't tell what i did so the X-fi package recognise my realtek driver but i can tell you what i did last

i have put my OS to CLEAN STATE MODE (that means that i didn't formated and installed os but made it like that)
to put OS in CLEAN STATE MODE you need to open msconfig and select under startup selection SELECTIVE STARTUP and under services click hide microsoft services and then disable all
also disable all the startup programs
then i have installed driver sweeper v3.0 (i think this made the trick but i am not sure)
and i have sweeped all the creative and realtek crap
tried this package 2.59 + creative X-fi 1.2 but still coudlnt get it working althought when i oppened creative console it didn't sayed that my audio device is not recognised do i want to choose another sound device (something like that) which gave me before so i knew something was changed
then i have uninstalled the creative and realtek and driver sweeped and tried the 2.48 +creative 1.1 and activated it , here is the link Creative X-Fi MB for your G73 (Realtek HD 2.48)
and boom the software was working ....then what i did i have installed X-fi 1.2 on top of it and after that installed 2.59 modded drivers ....everything works perfectly now

so for all of you who can't get it working i suggest installing driver sweeper latest version and also you can try the clean state mode method

and after that if you can't get it worked try with the 2.48 drivers (for me that's how it worked)

sorry about the long post