Posts by phatsew

Well, people that choose to build thier own laptop do it because they have a clue, so I figured out how to take apart the z70va to the motherboard and replace the audio card...and problem solved. So obviously it was a hardware issue,...

So, I have conceeded the fact this is probably a weird hardware failure coincidence that accompanied my o/s reinstall. Asus sent me a new board. (I am my own reseller/bulider) However, I don't know how to get down to the sound card...

Well, I deleted my partion, reformated my hd, reinstalled windows xp pro, and the VERY first thing i did was install the current RealTek driver from there website, it is version 1.31. During the install of the driver, the ominous light...

I am going to Re re-install windows today and see if the problem goes away. I will let you know what happens. How long where did you have to wait on your Laptop to be serviced?

Do you know which driver you used? There are a few that could possibly work...

Hey Guys, Ok, so when I first built my z70va my speakers worked fine. No red light, audio would mute when putting headphone jack in the SPDIF output, nothing was an issue. Reinstalled my operating system, couldn't find my orginial ASUS...