Posts by brad7223

the cCleaner helped with my speed a lot. Thanks a lot for your help. I still hear some static at random intervals. But I am chalking that up to an internet connection issue

Okay, just got my laptop back up and running (shut downs have been slow today, but i believe it is trying some windows live updates). I successfully download and installed that driver, and so far it is working fairly well. I am not...

Apparantly I also download a NVIDIA Audio Driver in addition to a Realtek driver. Must have been an automatic download

It is a Realtek Audio Driver from    http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=G73Sw&p=3&s=252&os=30&hashedid=AA97WmwbzXZHuuPv is where I get it. If you have any other recommendations, then...

Windows  Home Premium7 64bit

The same faint constant static is also present when the speakers are used

It is slowly updating it. In the device manager, under 'other devices' there was "Audio Device On High Definition Audio Bus" with a yellow question mark to the left of it. The drivers have installed. There is now a more frequent static...

The OS is not automatically re-installing them

There is no static when I do that. The sound drivers are currently disabled, and the static is not present

Sorry, it does NOT happen when it is in safe mode. I apologize for missing the 'not'