Asus N76vz

So, guys I'm about to buy it.. Besides the sound problem, which seems to be solved, any other concerns? Any tips or advices?

Anything better on the price range?

Regards!

 

Hey, thanks for posting this and your previous tip npr82! I had to do your previous tweaks AND this one also, otherwise I got some wicked feedback which was getting picked up on the mic and coming back through the stereo mix.

I'm not sure if you can monitor the stereo mix now, but this works well enough for me. The random popping/clicking was really annoying!

It was either this or go back to the Windows HD audio driver and lose the subwoofer (and also the included Waves MAXXaudio EQ).

Thanks again! Worked for me! :thumbsup:

 

Can someone please post idle cpu temperatures?
I think my fan is constantly working on pretty high levels and my idle temperatures are around 50 degrees C. I wonder if I should be worried :?

 

Npr82 thank you so much! That solution worked for my N56VZ too! Finally, I got rid of that popping sound really annoying =) But My mic is not working, when I use it, I'm doing mic as a default device. Then back Thank you mate! If I turn back to the windows driver, it comes off too but Maxxaudio is good you know. This solution is helpful thank you for that
Any solution for buzzzzzzrrr sound from woofer? )

 

Just got my N76VZ and of course I've had pop-up sounds problems..Following npr82's advice (thx so much npr82) it seems that issue went away!

I'd just like to ask you guys if you find the HDD on it being really noisy (mine is a Seagate ST9750420AS, 750G@7200rpm), or is just my impression ?!

 

Hello guys I have problem with my mic!

The noise that is coming out is just terrible, its like i am in a tube very little and tiny voice and its annoying ... I can communicate normally with it ...

Windows 8 machine and the drivers are from asus.com
Anybody with the same problem ?
Can you help me please ?

 

I am thinking of buying the n76vz but not sure yet...other than the sound and trackpad issues...is it great for multimedia purposes? [excluding gaming!]

Thanks

 

Hi,

thanks for the solution. It worked at first. But now (one day after) the speakers are doing a constant buzz...weird incormfotable sound. It only stops if I deactivate the stereo mix...
solutions?

 

It probably sounded like that the first day. You just didn't notice it. It's to be expected. What you actually did by following this tutorial is to set Stereo Mix (it's actually the normal output sound that laptop produces) as your default recording device and set it to Listen, which means that you actually listen to normal sounds, and then listening computer recording normals sounds and reproducing it. And this creates the feedback that you are reporting. It is also unfortunately the only way to remove the clicking sounds. However, it is possible to eliminate the feedback. You have to go to Realtek HD Audio Manager icon in system tray (right-click) > choose Recording devices > select Stereo Mix > click Properties > go to Levels > click Mute (the little speaker icon gets crossed)

What you have done now is to mute the recording level of stereo mix.

Also, you should not forget to go back to Recording devices, right-click on Microphone and select "Set as Default Communication Device". This will enable microphone as default recording device in most applications.

Now, this is not a solution. It's a workaround with some drawbacks. Asus should pull out their heads out of their asses and finally provide a fix. Unfortunately, asses as they are, they don't even acknowledge the problem although it affects most N56 and N76 laptops, which should be higher mid-range multimedia laptops and should never produce weird cracking sounds.

It's not only this driver, but few other drivers from Asus for N56 and N76 are proper crap. Not to mention absolutely idiotic amount of bloatware they deliver. Including one "driver" which fvcks up display calibration settings every time when the graphics are switched from Intel to Nvidia GPU. Unfortunately, I can't remember how it was called at this time. Google knows...

I advise everyone to go directly to Asus with this, as I did. They can ignore one user, but they can't many users.

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Now, to my question.

My N76VZ is running very quietly in spite all the hardware inside. However, the temperatures are not so nice. Nothing drastic, but I'd rather have the fans spin a bit faster and cooling to lower temps. Personally, I think it is not optimized right.

During boot to BIOS, sometimes the fans go full speed, and they seem to be 3x as loud as when I'm using my laptop in full load (CPU+GPU). This doesn't make any sense. Heat never does it any good. If anything else, the thermal grease will dry out faster.

For instance, GPU seems to be maxed to 80C. Once, it reaches such temperature the fan keeps it there as it seems that it is set to keep it there. At that moment the fan is still spinning much slower than it could. That means that it could, and should be set to keep the temps lower....

The question is; what's the good way to do this?

I don't want it set so that it is loud, but I think that smaller increase, like 10-20% would do it good, and not even be noticeable. Hell, even the speaker cracking seems to be louder than fans...

 

I recently bought an ASUS N76VZ and had a few annoying technical problems. I eventually returned it and got my money back but that had more to do with certain aspects of that store and their service than the problems, which after reading this thread I think might be addressable by me. I otherwise really liked the look and feel of this machine so I might yet buy another one else where.

1. I had the afore-mentioned clicking noise. Seemed low-key to whinge about that but it really was annoying. I am very glad to see other folks had it and were just as annoyed, and that there seems to be ways around it.

2. This one was worse though ... there are four USB outputs. According to the doc, one of them (front left) "allows you to charge a device even while the laptop is switched off". I found that wireless USB mouses (mice??) only worked in that one and not in the other three. USB memory sticks worked in all four. This was really a bit of a show-stopper for me because you always need a mouse, and having to use that one meant that functionality was pretty much lost (unless you took it out if you want to charge something). I tried more than one mouse and all had the same problem.

3. When I put up my own photo as a wallpaper, the subsequent opening and closing of ANY window was noticeably slower - it took several seconds, in a stop-start motion. The photo was not enormous - 1.6 MB. Research on the net revealed this to be a common problem but it must be solveable. My 8-year-old desktop running XP on 1GB of RAM doesn't have this problem at all.

The shop I bought it from advertised the laptop as having Windows 8 but it only had Windows 7. For practical purposes this wasn't a problem as I want to disable Metro anyway, but that wasn't the point and I would want to upgrade at some point anyway. I have a suspicion the PC had been sold and used before so I am wondering if I got a dud machine an any way - and if this was the reason for the problems.

Anyone else experienced 2 or 3 above?

 

The fix for the annoying popping sounds works. However i have noticed that it increases processor usage. A process called audiodg.exe runs at about 5% cpu usage with the fix. If you then disable the stereo mix recording device procesor use immediately falls back to 0 for audiodg.exe...but off course the popping returns.

I didn't notice anyone else commenting on increased cpu usage with the sound fix. Anyone else see this too? As it stands I think i prefer the popping to a constant increase in cpu usage.

 

If anyone is interested, I bought a slightly different N76VZ (more RAM, faster but smaller harddisk, about 12% dearer). Of the four problems I mentioned they are almost all gone. The only thing left is the popping sound but I am quite sure that's not as loud as it was. And as I know it can be disabled I'm not too bothered by it. Very nice machine. One happy camper here and I will never shop at the place I bought the first one from again.

 

Maybe you should try this:

Install the drivers from the Asus Homepage - if they aren't already installed and then download the "High Definition Audio Codecs (Software)" from Realtek . Pick the second from the list "64bits Vista, Windows7, Windows8 Driver only (Executable file)" and when successfully downloaded, install this driver without deleting the old one.

At least for me it solved the clicking issue.

Good luck and greetings from Germany

 

Hi,

I'm planning to buy a N76vz or N56vz Asus notebook... but I'm worried by the weird speaker noises problem reported here(it seems to be caused by some power saving feature that turns the speakers on and off, after 10 seconds, when not used). It seems to happen only when the Realtek driver is used, not the windows default driver. So here are my questions:
1) Is this still an issue with newly purchased machines ? whoewer bought one can you please post yes or no?
2) Should I be able to notice it a few days after purchase?
3) Does it get worse in time?
4) Win7 or Win8 specific?
6) Does it happen if the external subwoofer is not plugged in?
7) Does it happen if the headphones are plugged in?
8) I've seen some solution on this thread ( http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/670037-asus-n76vz.html#post8804181). It seems to work but obviously its not a good idea to keep a constant 5% processor load in order to fix it.
Did someone try to find some key settings in registry that would allow to deactivate the power saving feature for the device?
(see http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...ing-high-pitched-tone-squeal.html#post7617517)

Thanks

 

Any solutions to this? My fans do not cool my laptop enough when playing demanding games like Battlefield 3 even on low settings, it was better right after the purchase of laptop, and if there is a possiblility to increase fan speed i don't mind extra noise.

 

It seems that there is really something wrong with your machine. I didn't have any problems like you mentioned. You probably already did, but if you didn't you should return it. And let us know what happened.

1) Can't answer really, but I would like to know myself.
2) Yes. It actually gets more annoying with time. At least for me.
3) I'm not sure.
4) It happens on both 7 & 8.
6) Yes.
7) Yes.
8) I didn't notice that when I used that tweak. However, if I remember right, few steps are missing from that tweak to make it work without feedback. Few posts later than the one you provided the link for, on the next page, I described further steps.

I didn't try the fix, since the tweak worked. I'd like to know if it fixes the popping.

NEW There is a new BIOS 214 to be downloaded from Asus. In description it says: Fix it will pop noise when entering deep S3.. I flashed it, but it didn't solve the pop noise for me. In fact, it seems to me that it actually got worse. Even worse, for the first time I noticed this "audiodg.exe" process running at 5% CPU. It didn't return after the reboot though. At least not for a day. I'll keep watching for it.
I'd also like to know what it does?

So I think this problem will never be solved by Asus. They had a year now, and they didn't do anything about it. I have also had many problems with switching power-states on my GPU causing BSODs. They seem to be solved since NVIDIA 320 driver line. However, if I use the Asus NVIDIA driver, I will get BSOD every 10 days. I studied the BSOD reports precisely, and it seems that system crashes always during switching from or to S3 power-state.

So Asus screwed up something in N56/N76 line big time. I think it's time they admit it.
I don't know what it really is. Maybe the drivers. Maybe the hardware. Maybe both. But things are not as they should be.

Also if you have multiple displays, and keep loosing color calibrations settings, use this tutorial to remove the dodgy driver; Intel’s Video Drivers Kill Display Calibration - Laszlo Pusztai. The driver (Persistance) doesn't do anything else but resetting color calibration. Whoever put that in, is a proper idiot.

 

No. I didn't find a good way to increase the fan speed effectively. I keep my laptop cooler with cooling pad. If you do find something, let us know.
However, if you did notice that it runs hotter than it used too, it could be that your cooling system is not working properly anymore. Maybe you've got dust in there? Cleaning it up might help. Once in a while, I also clean up the filters in air-intake. It's on the hdd/ram slot cover in the back.