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    NP8662 - Audio stuttering

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by akstylish, May 30, 2009.

  1. akstylish

    akstylish Notebook Consultant

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    I have this problem in about 2/3 of the games I've played so far. Updated the audio driver to no avail. Any other suggestions?

    Specs:
    P9600
    4GB RAM
    320GB HDD @ 7200RPM
    Windows XP SP3
     
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  2. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    disable turbo memory if you have it

    disable bluetooth if you have it
     
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    that sounds extremely weird. I second what gophn said. Maybe try disabling your microphone too.
     
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  4. akstylish

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    pardon my ignorance, but how do I do it?
     
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    Open up realtek sound manager and see if you can lower the quality of the audio, perhaps its default setting is too high (which I would fine hard to believe because I am an audiophile and I have them all to max)

    You can disable the microphone via this same program, it should look like a brown speaker in your taskbar.
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    you can either do it through the BIOS.

    or through the Function key toggles.... in your User Manual.
     
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    I don't see any option related to quality in the manager. All I could disable was Noise Suppression in microphone tab.

    Ok, bluetooth was already disabled. As for turbo memory I'm using XP and don't think I even have the driver installed. The manual tells me to select SATA Mode Selection=AHCI and DFOROM Support=Enabled in BIOS, but they don't even appear if I have XP selected as installed OS.
     
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    Sorry for bump. Do you have any more ideas?
     
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  9. Gophn

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    have you tried to update the Audio drivers?
     
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    From the first post:

     
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  11. Gophn

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    fix your mem errors, then HDD errors (with CHKDSK), then try again.
     
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    It seems the cause was vsync. Haha silly me. :p
     
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    You only crime is that you don't use Vista 64bit to take full advantage of all that powerful hardware you got.

    Now go forth and game like that machine was intended to do. :cool:
     
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    I would've gladly used Vista only if it wasn't for the compatibility. I don't just play games one or two years old you know.
     
    akstylish, Jun 1, 2009
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