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    ASUS X450JN Notebook has weird soundcard system

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by cubluwt, Dec 17, 2014.

  1. cubluwt

    cubluwt Newbie

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    Hi,
    I just bought Asus X450JN, and there's only one jack to use with Headphone and Mircophone.

    When I saw the tech.specification on asus website, the audio spec was Sonicmaster, I just realized that the default driver from the factory was Realtek Audio High Def. not Sonicmaster.

    I was downloaded the newer version for my X450JN audio driver from asus official site, but when I finished downloading and unrar the file, it's not Sonicmaster driver but Wistron audio driver.

    I don't get it, and besides that thing, I have a question, when I was launched recording software, my X450JN automatically captured all sound in my room, I haven't plugged anything (headphone or microphone) but it was captured sound's, that's weird.

    So I plugged my microphone, but nothing happened, my Windows not detected any sound's, then I plugged my headphone and it was captured sound's. (There's only one plug-hole for headphone & microphone btw).

    It's weird, the microphone that functionally for captured sound or voice's doesn't worked at all, and headphones for hearing it's captured sound or voice's on my X450JN, that's very odd.

    So I checked my sound driver by running the dxdiag, and there are no Sonicmaster installed, just Wistron Realtek High Audio Def. so where do the Sonicmaster goes?

    Thank you for your help. Now for recording I have to place my mouth closed to the plug-hole, the only plug-hole for headphone and mic. Ridiculous, I thought the hole can use for mic and headphone, but it's not.
     
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  2. Prostar Computer

    Prostar Computer Company Representative

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    Sonicmaster, as I understand it, is not a piece of hardware or a driver, it's a term to describe the speaker design and layout.

    That was probably the laptop's internal microphone (near the webcam).

    Correct, it's a combo jack. After plugging in your microphone, did you check the Recording devices in Windows? Your microphone that was connected needs to be set as the default recording device.
     
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  3. cubluwt

    cubluwt Newbie

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    Ooo...I see....
    I didn't realized that. Thank you for the info, yes I saw a three small holes near the webcam.


    Yes, combo jack. and yes I did, the mic was set to default but still can't detected any sound's, and I've tried to set-up the mic by doing the speech recognition, but still not captured any sound's. I captured some pic's below:

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    Do I have to reinstall the OS?

    Thank you for your help...

    Best regards,
     
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    cubluwt, Dec 17, 2014
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