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    Clevo W150HRM microphone

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by scooterA, Dec 27, 2011.

  1. scooterA

    scooterA Newbie

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    Hi knowledgeable Clevo/Sager people! :)

    I own a Clevo W150HRM (branded as Kobalt GS150) and I cannot for the life of me get the microphone in to work. It worked previously and I must have by accident uninstalled the driver.

    In my sound devices I have no currently installed recording devices. Doing an Control panel autodetect 'add device' finds nothing. In device manager under 'sound video and game controllers' I have 'Intel (R) display audio' and 'Realtek High Definition Display Audio'. I'm assuming neither of these is actually the microphone.

    I have been to the Sager, Clevo and Realtek websites and tried downloading 'audio driver' for Win 7 from each. It wouldn't d/l from the Clevo TW site and I am not sure whether it is a good idea to use the Realtek native one. So then I managed to download from the Sager site and installed that but to no avail.

    Am I missing something basic? I checked the BIOS there is seemingly no option to enable/disable microphone, amd within Windows (7 home edition) it doesn't autodetect it.

    My best guess is that I just don't yet have the right driver, can somebody point me to a place to download the correct driver.

    Thanks, and I realize this is a bit of a noobish questions please let me know if I am missing some crucial piece of info.

    EDIT
    Also in the last couple of weeks I have also noticed a low hum coming from the speakers when I plug my earphones in. This hum goes away when I unplug the power cable. Furthermore sometime I get very short little staticy buzzes in my earphones. Could this be some kind of hardware issue, something is shorting out somewhere? Anyone have any thoughts on this? There just doesn't appear to be any

    The only promising sign I have is that if I plug something into the microphone slot it gives me a little pop-up notification that something that 'you just plugged a device into the audio jack'.

    As you may be able to deduce I was one of the lucky(unlucky) ones who bought off Kobalt before they went under (lucky I actually recieved the laptop!). My laptop has been fine up until now but as you know I don't have a warranty anymore so am trying to fix this by my lonesome...

    Lastly, I am based in the Netherlands, does anyone know of a Clevo/Sager distributor that could help?
     
    scooterA, Dec 27, 2011
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  2. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    hi scooter. cant pm you as you dont have enough posts. i think you need 10 before pm is active.
    check your email.
     
    MrDJ, Dec 28, 2011
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