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    Sound issues and Asus G1S

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by howardpm, Jun 19, 2007.

  1. howardpm

    howardpm Notebook Evangelist

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    Just got my laptop today and I don't know if its just me but the volume is horrendous. I have the volume maxed and its so low I need to put my ear to the laptop. Any else have this issue? I've tried watching a DVD and if I don't use earphones I can't hear whats going on.
     
    howardpm, Jun 19, 2007
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    Try updating your drivers for the sound. As well, press FN+F12 to see if that increases volume.
     
    coriolis, Jun 19, 2007
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    Make sure your Wave Volume bar is up too
     
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    No go, reinstalled the drivers from Asus website, every sound option bar is at 100%.
     
    howardpm, Jun 19, 2007
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    Have you tried going to sound options in the Control Panel and tinker around with it?
     
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    howardpm Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok I dunno it seems odd, if I try to watch a DVD (tried media player, media center and power DVD the volume is way low. If the Asus Screen Saver goes on the volume is really loud, if I watch something on youtube with IE its decent but still sort of low.

    Looking in the control panel I see Speakers and then Realtek Digital Output (which doesn't seem to do anything but for Speakers everything is set to 100.
     
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    kojiro Notebook Guru

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    I have to say, the G1S has got to have the worst laptop speakers ever. I am very satisfied with my G1S so far but man these speakers suck. As you mentioned, the volume is quite low, but the quality... wow my Tandy 1000 back in 1988 had better sound.

    The G1S does sound lovely going through my Sennheisers though. Thank god for that. Now I'm going back to Oblivion :)
     
    kojiro, Jun 19, 2007
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    Right click on the Realtec HD Audio Manager icon on your system tray and select volume control.
     
    obsolete, Jun 20, 2007
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    So I emailed ASUS, they responded in less then 8hrs bug thumbs up there. Anyways they had two options.

    1. Reinstall from the rescue disk and two go into the bios and set the speaker volume to 8 rather then 4 (not sure why this wasn't option 1). So anyways tried that first and it seemed to make some things louder (like the computer beeps) but didn't seem to effect cds, wavs, and dvds. I guess I'll try a reformat tonight and see. Honestly I can't keep this thing if the volume is going to be this low. I won't always have earphones or speakers plugged in to this.
     
    howardpm, Jun 20, 2007
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