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    Is it possible to overload Realtek audio?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by ajarnfalang, Aug 5, 2010.

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    ajarnfalang Notebook Enthusiast

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    As you know, I just bought an ASUS A42JV. I love it more everyday.

    Something strange was happening yesterday. I found the settings for the SRS Surround sound, so I maxed everything out. Volume, SRS, Realtek equalizer was set to the maximum all the way up.

    I noticed, when I was watching Youtube, it was a Howard Stern clip so no video only sound, the clip had really bad sound. It sounded like super maxed treble, if you know what I mean. There was a point where they were laughing and the "Which device did you insert" pop up and the "You've just plugged in a device" from Realtek came up. THen it went away. At another point, it came up again.

    I went home. Was playing a video I downloaded from Youtube. The video came to the end where people were clapping and whistling, it did it again.

    I thought that I had broken the audio jack or something, but everything works fine.

    So, I figured I'd turn everything back to defaults. Now, it is not nearly as loud playing the same video, it is almost half way the volume, so I must have had it pretty overloaded.

    Anyway, I have been playing movies and FRINGE, volume up, but all settings to default and the message doesn't come up. Just back to normal again.

    I have heard this phantom devices problem with Realtek and Vista 64bit, but I have the latest drivers. It has never happened and now it is back to normal.

    I have been playing videos and movies for about 5 hours and 1 hour last night after turning everything to default, and the phantom "You've plugged in a device" doesn't come up (unless I plug in a headset of course).

    Could it be you can actually overload the sound so it pops up with these phantom headsets being plugged in?

    hmmmmmm.....
     
    ajarnfalang, Aug 5, 2010
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    ajarnfalang Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have a theory:

    My headset/mic jack is right up against the left speaker. My speakers are in the front. Kind of facing down. Strange place to put them but I think they wanted you to feel the full surround .

    So, it may be that when I max out the volume, the equalizer and the SRS settings (shouldn't do that anyway) the high pitch shreeking of the speaker disturbs the connector inside the jack and it momentarily reads it as a headset plugged in.

    That's my theory at least.

    Thoughts?
     
    ajarnfalang, Aug 5, 2010
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