ASUS G50vt - No sound in the speakers

Hi everyone, i have a g50vt for a couple of months, everything working fine, except for this problem, it began this week. I only have sound in the Out Jack, the internal speakers are not working.

-In most of the time i use a external 2.1 speakers because of the Bass
-I've tried to update the sound drivers and BIOS
-The startup sound is enabled in the BIOS Setup and with volume 6, that sound still plays when i turn the notebook on

i think the problem isn't the speakers because the startup sound still plays, but it play in both external and internal speakers. It's possible that my 2.1's plug damaged the Audio Jack?

Just one more thing: in Realtek HD Audio Manager, in the right side there are the 3 Jacks, LIN, LOUT and MIC, The Line Out is the only one that not Gray when i unplug. When i Retasked it, during the transition the Internal Speakers turned on for a fraction of a second then stoped.

 

Having it set to digital out would do that... but that's kind of obvious, maybe you should try reinstalling your realtek drivers.

 

The first thing i tried, not even the default windows drivers worked

 

Same problem. Look what I found.

"Hi to all forum members,

I just wanted to share my experience of a problem with my V1S-B1 laptop and how I solved it by flashing BIOS back from 301 to 208. One day (3 month after original purchase) just out of the blue I disconnected the headphones from the headphones socket and found that this has not been detected by the system. In fact, Vista continued to think that the jack is pluged in, and as a result the speakers were muted! At the same time, I knew the speakers were alive and working as they played the bios sound at start up!!! This is the most bizare thing about this problem.

I then found out that this is a well-known problem with some Asus laptops, and even though rare, is well documented for G1s and G2s (and now V1s) mainly in Asus support forums. I would like to say that I have Vista Business 64x, 4GB of RAM, BIOS 301, latest updated audio drivers, but according to the forum posts this issue is OS independent (someone even tried installing Linux and still the problem was not resolved).

I tried everything possible - reinstalling all drivers (proper uninstall with PC clean of the old driver), format and clean install of Vista, recovery CD, everything, but nothing helped. Realtek Audio Manager still showed headphones connected to the system even when they were not! so that speakers continued to be muted, even though the sound worked through the headphones or external speakers.

ASUS support told me (and to all people with similar problem) that the issue is with the faulty motherboards. In fact, people RMA'ed their units with this problem and had the MBs replaced by Asus, only to find the same problem DEVELOP AGAIN IN 2-3 months! Needless to say I did not want to send my unit out to RMA for nothing.

I must say some people found a temporary solution by adjusting up and down the sound level, which unblocked the speakers until the next reboot, when they would be muted again. This never worked for me - so it clearly looked as a some sort of firmware issue (with internal i/O logic or something like this).

I FINALLY MANAGED TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM ENTIRELY BY ROLLING THE BIOS BACK FROM 301 to 208 version! I must say flashing down to 300 did not help. I used Asus flash utility in Bios to flash. After rolling back to 208, clean Vista install, new realtek drivers and full vista updates insalled - the speakers started to work back again! I am now able to use the headphones back and force again.

This is my first ASUS laptop, and even though I love V1s, I am really shocked by ASUS support, who not only did not spot and acknowledged this issue, they keep mislead people and loose money by accepting RMAs, swapping the MBs, while the issue is in their own conflicting Bioses! I am not going to upgrade the bios now until I know that this issue has been resolved.

I must also add that even after 3 months after purchase, BTOtech guys (Eddie) was available for his support comments and tried to solve this issue."

I will try this. I allso reinstaled the Vista and tryed XP.

 

Maybe you should try Seven RC1 with generic audio drivers... don't install Realtek software or drivers.
It's the only way I found to "repair" my headphone plug, I just noticed this a moment ago (at Seven first boot ).
Everything is now working fine, but if I reboot in my XP, headphone plug is broken again (not detecting the headphone).

Asus or Realtek, could you please explain ?

 

Has anyone found a solution to this problem that doesn't involve reinstalling an OS. I just got this laptop as a replacement for a G1S. The speakers haven't work, except for the post sound when booting.

 

It could be a stuck headphone jack. If you try it with headphones does it work?

 

Yes it's the stuck headphone jack issue. Putting headphones in I can hear sound on the headphones.

 

This may work for you... good luck.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5879478&postcount=337

 

realy thank you!!!!!! you're my hero!!

greetz from belgium