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4780 audio interferance and background noise

post #1 of 9
2/23/04 at 1:04pm
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EDITFOUND THE CULPRIT(s) The ones that are causing the noise are AUX, and PC SPEAKER, all the others just add some minute static that is hardly noticeable, unless you turn it up and have head phones on. I did write this once farther down the thread, but thought this would simplify things by not having to read the whole dang thing.
Goto your Volume control panel, one way is through control panel, then sound and audio devices, in the device volume click on the advanced tab. Now click on options and check advanced controls, then go back and click on the properties in the same menu. With the playback field open, in the "show the following volume controls, check ALL. Hit ok, Now you should see all the volume controls of your system. Mute all the ones that you do not use. The one that is causing the beep is "PC Speaker". I have done this and it greatly improved the background noise. I have muted Aux, PC Speaker. The rest of these don't really affect much unless you play games with your headphones on. If you mute these: 3D Depth, SPDIF, TV Tuner, CD Player, Line In, MIC, PHONE LINE, (or in otherwords, the ones that you are not using) it will greatly eliminate back ground hiss when the volume is turned up. I don't use these very often and it is your discretion which ones you want left on. EDIT

I like to play online with my 4780, but the audio on this thing just absolutely sucks compared to any of my other systems. I constantly hear interference from other components in the system, and I often like to use headphones to get a jump on people sneaking up on me, but their footstep sound garbled and sparatic... Is there any way to fix this? I have the drivers currently on the Sager drivers page. If this is the best that it can do, I may be forced to buy an external sound card. I wish it were possible to swap them out...
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post #2 of 9
2/27/04 at 7:55pm
I couldn't agree more...the audio sucks...is there anything that can be done? I see audio drivers being discussed on this site but will they clean up the sound to something I can tolerate?
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post #3 of 9
2/27/04 at 10:42pm
In the audio mixer try muteing all the ones you don't need.
I found that the AUX was outputing tons of noize.
Also go to the device manager and disable the IR port, this also makes all kinds of funky noize.
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post #4 of 9
3/2/04 at 10:42pm

The worst audio card

You all have been scammed (as was I) in believing you were purchasing a high end quality product. Unfortunately I have come to find out that sager uses low quality components to outfit its computers; therefore no matter what you do, you will always experience audio problems. But if this is your worst problem with the unit you have faired well my friends, there are more to come...
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post #5 of 9
3/3/04 at 2:32pm
Clog, on a scale from 1 to 100, audio quality is tied at 1. That is to say, it is about as important as the color of the power cord. Are you a disgruntled customer? If so, please let us know what you found distasteful about the configuration and support. Also let us know the seller of the unit that you have/had.
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post #6 of 9
3/3/04 at 3:09pm
To tell it briefly, and without the intention of breaking anyones right to be dissapointed, a nice state-of-the-art audio subsystem in a laptop is something a marketing guy can imagine, but an engineer can't do. Not without adding up to 1 Kg. to a previously overweighted unit and without increasing up to 400£ the selling price. A tiny mosfet amplifier and 4 nice klipsch speakers, plus the high quality wiring and isolation neccesary for the accomplishment of the task are not light neither for free. And take in count that you've got a built-in subwoofer , so start thinking on setting up a nice sound box for it and changing the design and material of the enclosure to avoid unwanted resonances. I'd love to have such a laptop, but I guess that the audio subsystem it's not a priority for the engineers. Only for the guys in marketing. And maybe for the guys in Apple, because they are used to achieve the impossible.

P.D.: I sincerely apologize for my horrible english, hopefully you'll be able to understand what I wrote above, but English is not my mother language, not even my second language, and it badly needs to be improved.
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post #7 of 9
3/4/04 at 3:41pm
Yeah, muting aux and disabling the IR port helps, but I know at least I have one more noise that I'm not sure how to get rid of. Something beeps about every second, very faintly. It can only be noticed when there is no other sound. Considering what else I got along with this very faint beep, I'd take the 4780 over most other laptops anyday.
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post #8 of 9
3/14/04 at 1:42pm
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Originally Posted by veruvius
Yeah, muting aux and disabling the IR port helps, but I know at least I have one more noise that I'm not sure how to get rid of. Something beeps about every second, very faintly. It can only be noticed when there is no other sound. Considering what else I got along with this very faint beep, I'd take the 4780 over most other laptops anyday.
PC Speaker is the culpret for the beep! Mute it.

Goto your Volume control pannel, one way is through control panel, then sound and audio devices, in the device volume click on the advanced tab. Now click on options and check advaced controls, then go up and click on the properties. With the playback field open, in the "show the following volume controls, check ALL. Hit ok, Now you should see all the volume controls of your system. Mute all the ones that you do not use. The one that is causing the beep is "PC Seaker". I have done this and it greatly improved the background noise. I have muted, 3D Depth, SPDIF, AUx, TV Tuner, CD Player, Line In, MIC, PHONE LINE, PC Speaker. The ones that are causing the noise are AUX, and PC SPEAKER, all the others just and some minute static that is hardly noticable, unless you turn it up and have head phones on.
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post #9 of 9
3/14/04 at 1:43pm
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Originally Posted by G0tHm0G
To tell it briefly, and without the intention of breaking anyones right to be dissapointed, a nice state-of-the-art audio subsystem in a laptop is something a marketing guy can imagine, but an engineer can't do. Not without adding up to 1 Kg. to a previously overweighted unit and without increasing up to 400£ the selling price. A tiny mosfet amplifier and 4 nice klipsch speakers, plus the high quality wiring and isolation neccesary for the accomplishment of the task are not light neither for free. And take in count that you've got a built-in subwoofer , so start thinking on setting up a nice sound box for it and changing the design and material of the enclosure to avoid unwanted resonances. I'd love to have such a laptop, but I guess that the audio subsystem it's not a priority for the engineers. Only for the guys in marketing. And maybe for the guys in Apple, because they are used to achieve the impossible.









P.D.: I sincerely apologize for my horrible english, hopefully you'll be able to understand what I wrote above, but English is not my mother language, not even my second language, and it badly needs to be improved.
Your English is perfectly fine. I didn't know it was anything else!
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