Volume Help Please!!!!

It's been two months and countless hours searching online since I lost volume on my Averatec 3150. I've tried everything and have not resolved this issue yet. Can someone please help me? I wasn't able to find or download the driver update from off the website. I've tried several regedits and it still doesn't work. One day I turned it on and the volume icon was no longer in the system tray anymore. In control panel all the volume options are grayed out but in properties it's all saying the equipment is functioning correctly. I downloaded and installed Realtek AC 97 but it hasn't solved all my problems. I just get the beeping noise and that's it. Can someone help me?

 

Bummer Dude! We will give it a whirl.

We have had this problem several times with the 7100.
Every cussed time for us it has been an app "holding on" to the audio controls after the app "closed".
The main offenders were the DVD players - the crappy player that came default with the 7100 worked like once correctly and did indeed try to retain the volume controls so did the MS media thing.

First plug some speakers into the headphone jack.
Second bring up your volume control app,
Third drag and drop and play an MP3 file with your default player
then a WAV
then a MIDI
then a DVD

Close the player and repeat the steps in each of the players on your system include all the multimedia apps

If one player is louder
OR
you get controls back with that player

THAT player is probably the culprit.

The thing is they don't let go when we rebooted so we just had to go find it.

We had to "Exit" the app from the menu we think - no one is quite sure now. We know we had to exit the app by means other than clicking the corner "X out".

Hope that helps a bit.

If not we strongly recommend you LIVE boot a Lin distro and try to use the volume controls. That will eliminate the hardware as the culprit and may let in a refreshing breeze
Worst case it will let you burn off your data and then you can reinstall your OS. Another great chance to chill with those on krill

 

If it does turn out to be hardware, here is an inexpensive work around...
USB audio adapter

I am using one as part of a dock for my notebook; one USB connection for all my peripherals, including external speakers. The sound quality is good. No drivers are needed for XP or Vista.

 

I was about to try everything until I read your second to last statement. I have reinstalled my OS SEVERAL times. I thought that would fix it but it's still not working. What does this mean?

 

This seems like a quick cheap fix. Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know if there is something like this which doesn't need speakers or headphones?

 

I own the TRITTON Sound Bite speakers. Very good sound for the size/weight and many good user reviews. Easy to travel with, drops in your PC bag without worrying about speaker damage. No headphone or mic jacks though.

With my 3150p, I had occasional pops or crackles. I suspect the CPU was getting busy and not quite keeping up with the USB audio stream. I haven't experienced this on my current notebook, so the issue is not the speakers.

There are many alternatives these days - just do a search for USB speakers and make sure that BOTH audio AND power come through the USB port.

 

It may be due to the wrong drivers are you sure its a Realtek AC 97 or is it a Vinyl AC 97

 

"I have reinstalled my OS SEVERAL times. I thought that would fix it but it's still not working. What does this mean?"


Remember this thing is 98% code.
We think it probably means (simply put) that the state of the hardware has not been altered by the OS installs.
Since the sound hardware must be told to change state it may be you have not the correct driver/other software or (remote but possible) you have a bad bit of hardware.
Since it did work,
IF the hardware is sound (pardon )
It is much more likely your instruction code has failed to properly instruct the hardware to change state.

Again we all agree here the best way to solve the puzzle is to try one or more of the brute weight LIVE! Linux distros. Knoppix 6XXXX Ubu/Kubu/Edubunu 7.10 etc.
Remember you don't need to abandon your Dozer! You just need to eliminate the hardware failure as the culprit. You can have the glass house back if the sound works right under antepodean control. It might even be all that the bug needs to let go

If you get things rockin with flipper control you can either stay cool or go about eliminating/replacing the Dozer code chunks one by one until you find it.

In any case we wish you a quick recovery.

 

BTW my cohort wants to know if you still have a beeping noise?
He (alone on his ice drift) suspects it is your MOBO beeping to tell you you have a BIOS level problem. Many MOBOs use a beep code to communicate with us their state(s).
He is a competent if geeky fellow.
You may want to try his remedies before shucking clams.
Turn on and off the different sound controls in the BIOS rebooting between goes.