Asus N56vz speakers blaring noise

Hey all,

so I recently purchased an Asus n56vz. Everything is fantastic, only one problem. Every once in a while the speakers makes this weird blaring noise while in use. At first I thought it was my graphics card, since I only saw it happen during video games, but then it happened while playing music.

Is there any fix for this? It's a bit concerning and I rather not have to return it over such an issue. It's a fantastic machine otherwise.

 

N76vz's have a similar problem.
Perhaps this solution or this may be of use to you.

 

Actually, it's not the popping problem (albeit that did solve that issue), but rather, something worse. Whatever the problem is, it's only getting worse, as I realized it's not the speaker, but the laptop 'freezing', since it happened a few times while gaming, and once while even web browsing ( I could tell it happened since I had the mouse click sound get stuck).

I really don't want to return this, but i just may : /

 

Here is a link below where you can get support on your laptop. Have you tried updating to the latest bios? Have you tried doing a factory restore to put everything back to stock to see if you still have the problem?

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Knowledge N56VZ

 

^to see if it's software, and not hardware.

I think I've seen this before, by the way. The realtek/soundcard driver depends on a system component running in the background. And that sound component is the interface for all sound events on the system. So if you have a filter for a microphone, or some filter or codec running, a post processing filter, anything external, an hdmi driver for hd-sound, an input for dvd, a pass-through for digital out -- all of it goes through that component. And if that component drops below the "realtime" priority it needs, you get sound-distortion. And this can appear completely randomly, and it really sounds like something is physically broken.

One combination that caused a problem here was that I had a user-account, and had ran the setup and driver install on the admin account. Instead of on the user-account with elevated privileges. So what happened was that the sound filters didn't actually run until I logged in on the admin account (which then triggered the system task - which was prevented from running if I just logged on with the user account).

So do a complete reset, and see if it goes away.