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    8530w Speakers

    Discussion in 'HP' started by P3R3, Sep 5, 2009.

  1. P3R3

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    Anyone have issues with these speakers lately. Mine just got back from hp repair and the speakers seem to be no better than before. Tons of static when playing music, tons of static. Most songs are downright terrible, even at lower volume.
     
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  2. asusnote

    asusnote Notebook Enthusiast

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    Try to update the ADI Sound Max drivers for the OS. Are you running XP or Vista? There is a nice utility the HP Softpaq Download Manager which will tell you what current driver updates are available and install them. You can install this, by going to the HP Info Center and select HP software setup. It will give you a list of available software.

    I had the same for a few months in my 8530w but I waited until they released the driver which finally fixed the overdriving of the speakers and the distortion.
     
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  3. P3R3

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    Thanks a bunch! I have never in my 10 years of fixing computers had a driver that is that bad, how did that even pass QA?!
     
    P3R3, Sep 5, 2009
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  4. Th3_uN1Qu3

    Th3_uN1Qu3 Notebook Deity

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    Ask ADI. I know i saw the same 3 years ago on a friend's computer, the onboard SoundMax audio would give nothing but crackles on the right speaker. Updated drivers and voila. So it's an old issue with them, seems like they're still doing the same.
     
    Th3_uN1Qu3, Sep 5, 2009
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  5. Krane

    Krane Notebook Prophet

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    Speakers are among the most simplest and most prolific devices of our era. Laptops having so many bugs in thing like these, shouldn't be an issue--especially when my $10clock radio can be hear thoughout my apartment.
     
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    Your clock radio has only two functions, keeping the time and playing the radio. They are controlled by two separate chips thus they cannot bother each other apart from the clock triggering the radio when the alarm needs to sound.

    While a computer is a machine that does a lot of things with only a few large chips. But this isn't really the issue - they used to do the same things successfully in the past. The problem started when some wise-a** thought he could save a couple $ by doing sound mixing in software.

    This is why using a dedicated sound card boosts performance by a bit - because the CPU no longer has to process sound for the onboard device, most (but not all) sound cards do mixing and FX on their own.
     
    Th3_uN1Qu3, Sep 5, 2009
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