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    ASUS G50VT-X1 Major Sound Problem

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by prism1029, Dec 23, 2008.

  1. prism1029

    prism1029 Notebook Guru

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    I recently got an ASUS G50VT-X1 from Best Buys and two days ago when I started up my laptop, I found that I had no sound. If I plugged in headphones, I could hear static.

    However if I start up the laptop through ExpressGate, there is sound.

    I have checked the sound drivers and updated with no result. Next I used the recovery disk given with the purchase to restore Windows after a formating first partition, but that did not fix the sound problem (I've also used the F9 method).

    Seeing this I returned my ASUS G50VT-X1 to Best Buys and received another (Got the second one from a different Best Buys).

    Today I started up my laptop only to find the same problem.

    Does anyone know what can cause this and if there is a fix? Thanks
     
    prism1029, Dec 23, 2008
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  2. jonhapimp

    jonhapimp Notebook Virtuoso

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    try returning it to another one
     
    jonhapimp, Dec 23, 2008
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  3. ryzeki

    ryzeki Super Moderator Super Moderator

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    did you disable the turn-on explosion sound in BIOS? that disables the whole sound of the notebook.
     
    ryzeki, Dec 24, 2008
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  4. prism1029

    prism1029 Notebook Guru

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    Really? I'm going to see if that's it...

    Edit - THANK YOU, you have no idea how much time I wasted trying to fix this problem.

    However, is there anyway to turn off that explosion sound?
     
    prism1029, Dec 24, 2008
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  5. frostbit3

    frostbit3 Notebook Evangelist

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    Really? I have the X2 and I disabled the Bios sound the day I got it and I have never had any problems with the sound at all. I play sound through my desktop speakers but at any given moment I can unplug the headphone jack and it comes through the laptop speakers (Just tested it). I know for a fact that the bios sound is off because it used to wake up my daughter if she was taking a nap in my computer room (8 months old) so I turned it off.
     
    frostbit3, Dec 24, 2008
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  6. st0nedpenguin

    st0nedpenguin Notebook Evangelist

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    Set the volume for the explosion sound to 0, it'll not annoy the crap out of you on boot and you still have sound in Windows.
     
    st0nedpenguin, Dec 24, 2008
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  7. LaptopNut

    LaptopNut Notebook Virtuoso

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    You can probably disable the boot sound via the Bios.
     
    LaptopNut, Dec 24, 2008
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