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    Notebook IDT Audio Card and SRS enhancement

    Discussion in 'HP' started by trparky, May 1, 2010.

  1. trparky

    trparky Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have two older notebooks in the house that have the exact same audio card in them as the newest notebook that I have has, namely the IDT audio card.

    There seems to be one thing that different between my notebook and the two others, my notebook seems to have something called "SRS Powered Premium Sound".

    So I decided to take the same software that is used on my notebook and installed it on the older notebooks thinking that this would enable the SRS on the older notebooks but that doesn't seem to be the case.

    What is going on with the SRS? Is it software? Hardware? A flip of a software switch?
     
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    Steph4n Notebook Enthusiast

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    Its hardware. Did you get a HP dv7 or simular?
     
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    trparky Notebook Enthusiast

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    They are DV7s but older DV7s. I thought that SRS was done in software.
     
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    sublime313 Notebook Evangelist

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    the newest IDT software seems to not install correctly on dv7's.. try an older version: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp46501-47000/sp46867.exe. i have a dv7-1270 which i bought in Feb 2009 and i use the IDT software. In fact, the enhancements from it greatly improve the sound when i'm hooked up to my external speakers.

    i thought even the first series of dv7's came with IDT software though...mine did.
     
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