NP2090 Audio and Video drivers...meh.

I made a stupid mistake today.

I saw in some thread that some guy got better 3dmark scores by using video drivers on the Sager site. So, I tried them out...they gave me tons of problems and were a pain to install, for some reason. When I was on the Sager site though, I saw their audio drivers there, and figuring they might be more up to date than my current ones, I installed them.

Well, as far as the video goes, I need ones from laptopvideo2go again...but I don't recall which ones I had before >> and everyone seems divided on which ones to use (I'm running Vista64 if it matters). If anyone has a recommendation for me, I'll take it, if not, I'll just keep trying various ones.

As far as the audio goes...ugh, I shouldn't have changed. Now it seems regardless of the driver I use, I get an annoying high pitched sound when I use headphones. It's irritating and sort of gives me a headache after a while. And, whenever I try to uninstall the current audio driver, windows automatically puts the Microsoft driver on, which continues the high pitched sound problem. I tried installing the old audio drivers that are on my drivers disc, but the problem persists even with them (I think so anyway..it seems that windows install the default drivers before the Realtek ones can install...and I can't to cancel the automatic installation).

Has anyone had this audio problem? It seems like a minor thing, I know, but it's really frustrating.

 

No problems like you said, but I suggest you unintall Realtek software from Add Remove Programs list first. Then update manually the driver to the path on the CD your OS is listed. Don't use the automated setup (setup.exe) from teh CD...I had no sound for two days in XP until I located the driver manually deep inside XP driver folders.

 

I just tried that, but it doesn't seem much different.

It's really irritating...I can't seem to do a clean uninstall of the current driver then install of the new driver, because the second I boot up after uninstalling the old one, windows slaps on the microsoft driver without even asking my permission, and I don't know how to stop it. But I tried manually install it over the microsoft driver and the problem persists.

I'm kinda fed up with vista, so I'll be installing XP Pro on it later this week (just ordered an XP Pro SP2 disk from Newegg today...). Hopefully I'll be able to resolve the problem there.

 

Good luck...since this laptop is designed for Vista there is a bunch of drivers issues on XP too. I went all the way from Vista64 to Vista32 to XP Pro...it's now stable and working but I had some hard time at first. Let me know if you can make the power USB thing to work in XP.

 

I have the audio problem too (Vista Business 64)! It's definitely a Windows problem, since I don't get the squeal under Ubuntu (or, for that matter, until the Windows audio stack starts up...)

Either that, or it's the way the Realtek chips interact with Windows since I also have the same problem on my CL56.

Does anyone have a solution to this?

 

Huh. Well, it's good to know it's a software problem rather than a hardware problem, at the very least.

I'll let you know how my experience with XP goes, By ToR. If I get the USB thing to work I'll make a topic or PM you or something.

At least I'm getting XP Pro with SP2 so I don't have to worry about the SATA drive issue.

EDIT: Also, it's weird to note that the problem didn't exist at first...it only started when I changed the driver.

 

hmm... that's odd. Mine was there from the beginning. I'm using the ones from the site as well, maybe I should dig out that CD

Are you sure you just didn't notice it at first?

 

It's possible that I didn't notice it at first I suppose, but I'm pretty sure that I didn't... I consider myself a bit of an audiophile, and these types of things tend to really bug me. I don't think I would have gone for 4 or 5 days without noticing it.