ARRRGGGHHH! I've had it for one day and I've gone and broke it already!

Hi guys

I've had my Asus M70VM for a day now, and I've gone and broken it already! I was playing around with the SPDIF and headphone output connections last night (plugging leads into it to output the sound to my hi-fi).

Now though I'm having a problem getting sound from my internal speakers!

The only way I can get sound from them is by going into the Realtek HD Audio Manager, going to the Device Advanced Settings and selecting the "make front and rear audio devices playback two different audio streams simultaneously" option.

Doing this works ok when I play music via winamp, but when I play games it doesn't work, I get no sound!

Also I can't output via the SPDIF or headphone outputs when I change that option so I get sound from the internal speakers only and nothing from games!

When I look in the Dobly Control Centre which the laptop came installed with as well as the Realtek HD audio manager, before I change the above mentioned option, I can only see the headphones and SPDIF outputs as options, but when I change that option the speakers option suddenly appears...

I have tried re-installing the Realtek drivers using the drivers disk provided with the laptop and I have tried 2 system restores to 2 different points (both of which I though the sound outputs including the speakers were working fine), the system restores don't work because system restore finds an error? And the re-install of the Realtek drivers doesn't solve the issue either...

Please can someone advise me on what I can do to solve this as I have no earthly idea what I have done here.

Thanks in advance for any help/advice on this.

 

Time for a clean install.

 

Yeah you'd think that wouldn't you. But I just used the recovery partition to re-install the OS and guess what, still the same problem.

I would suspect a hardware failure but because I can get sound out of the internal speakers that doesn't seem likely...

 

Try uninstalling the audio drivers and just using Vista's built-in HD audio drivers.
Works great for me. (I have a different audio chip though, so YMMV.)

(Most third-party drivers are crappy, so I try to use Windows' built-in drivers wherever possible.)

 

This may not help but its easy so you might as well try it. I had problems getting my internal speakers to work after I unplugged my external ones and I fixed it by plugging them back in and playing music on windows media player through them and unplugging them mid song. It was odd but it worked.

 

Time to call Tech Support them. :/