New HP 3510nr owner help!

After researching a portable laptop with good battery life, and fast processer speed I choose the best buys blue label 3510nr laptop. The screen was gorgeous, and I bought it to get adapted to vista Ughhh. I have several concerns I hope other owners can help me with. One the volume of the speakers is clear for a laptop this size inside windows looking at videos or playing music baqck but strangely enough when viewing DVD movies the volume is very quiet. When the computer first started a DVD is went from 0 to ffering several numbers for US language and it plays in US mode but I wonder what this was. Also my movies downloaded from utube and various sources throughout the years ran fine on XP and xp PRO but 50% only will play in AVI not the movie in windows media player. Also I am perplexed at how strange the new Media player is compared with earleir versions that ran under XP. Waht can I do about seeing my movies, and possibly whats up with the sound as Ive checked all settings in control panel. Im scared to even call HP as their customer service horribible. I have 14 days to return the laptop but would rather solve these problems if possible...Please help!!!

 

try "media player classic" for a video player, Im not quite sure what your problems are

For your volume issues turn it up to the top in control panel and try to max it out on the laptops volume tuner as well to see if you get higher volume and see if there are any updates for your audio driver

 

Dude - calm down and get a grip!!

First - here is the link to your system's Support Page:

HP Pavilion dv3510nr Entertainment Notebook PC

Setup and install

As far as your movie issue - you probably need to update the CODECS used to play your old movies on your new system. All you need to do is find which CODEC's were used and then install them. However, if you haven't done so, you need to first update all your HP system drivers, then run a Windows Update to update Vista to current levels just to rule out that's an issue.

Go through the support links on the pages for your system configuration. You should also put yourself on the HP Alerts RSS / Email notification list.

Sound Issues - It's sometimes hard to explain, but there are separate control functions for your Sound - the Master Control, then the individual controls on the different Media Players. Some do control the Master output, but most don't - they only increase or decrease volume in relation to the Master Control's setting. If you've got the WMP volume control at max an aren't getting enough volume, then the Master control is where to start - they're not linked. Programs that do have volume control linked to the Master you can see move as you move the Master control, or vice-versa.

For example, if your Master Sound Volume was set to 50%, and you started a movie on a player that had it's own independent volume slider, you could run that slider up to 100% - but the actual volume output would only be the 50% output as dictated by the Master Setting. It's similar to Fixed / Variable Volume settings on your TV/Cable setup.

1. Go to Control Panel, Sound.
2. For output of HDMI audio, you'd select Digital Output Device/HDMI/SPDIF,d depending on your Driver, then click on Set Default and Apply. Set Default for the PC Speakers routes it back to the internal speakers.
3. With PC Speakers as the default, click on Properties Button.
4. In Properties, click on the Levels tab - these are the Master Volume Control Slider for your system's overall Volume. If you want to control all volume controls relative to 100% volume setup, set this to 100%.
5. The Balance button is for Surround setup tweaking.
6. Click on the Enhancement Tab.
7. Enhancement has basic audio tools - Equalization Leveling, etc.
8. Tone Control tab - obvious.
9. Advanced - Sets Sample Rate & Bit depth.

Click Apply then OK to set any changes.

The Language options you initially saw were probably the various language options for English, and there are quite a few.

 

Download the free VLC video player. It plays every format, even quicktime. I'm too lazy to google the link for you tho.

 

In your task tray, there should be the IDT or ITE audio driver program, something like that. Go in there and crank everything. I think there might be a setting just for a certain media player (as I recall).