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M1710 sound crackling in Vista? Help!

post #1 of 14
7/29/07 at 12:37pm
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Heya,

I'm trying to figure out why the sound crackles every so often in Vista with this laptop. Using the latest sound-card drivers (January 2007) from Dell. It doesn't happen all the time, and tends to do it most when there's hard drive activity. Anyone got any ideas what's going on here? Never had a problem with XP...

Thanks in advance for any help.
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post #2 of 14
7/29/07 at 1:39pm
It's a common problem with the draft n wireless card driver. Try downloading the latest driver for the wireless card, it should help a little bit.
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post #3 of 14
7/29/07 at 3:20pm
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Originally Posted by Spinitch View Post
It's a common problem with the draft n wireless card driver. Try downloading the latest driver for the wireless card, it should help a little bit.

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I'm already using the latest wireless card driver from Dell.
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post #4 of 14
7/30/07 at 10:47am
It has more to do with quickset and lightfx. Basically the buffer is too small and it causes it to stutter and crackle! There is no 100% solution apart from not using lightfx or removing quickset completely!
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post #5 of 14
7/30/07 at 4:03pm
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Originally Posted by harbir24_7 View Post
It has more to do with quickset and lightfx. Basically the buffer is too small and it causes it to stutter and crackle! There is no 100% solution apart from not using lightfx or removing quickset completely!

I'm not really using any aspects of Quickset. Are you saying removing it will fix the crackling?
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post #6 of 14
7/31/07 at 5:13am
Well its happening for me aswell. but i'm using the Creative Audigy upgrade stuff. which i think is useless
might just get rid of it
Have the latest wireless drivers from Intel and latest everything else on it aswell
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post #7 of 14
8/1/07 at 6:40am
I havent tried it myself but there is no specific answer! Disabling the sound effects reduces the crackle. For some people it works fine while for others its still a major problem. I have it even if i use the dell bluetooth headset.

I did read of an answer which removed it almost completely but it had some side affects! It was on the official dell web site!

There are some custom made programs which can control the lightfx
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post #8 of 14
8/1/07 at 8:54am
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Originally Posted by harbir24_7 View Post
I havent tried it myself but there is no specific answer! Disabling the sound effects reduces the crackle. For some people it works fine while for others its still a major problem. I have it even if i use the dell bluetooth headset.

I did read of an answer which removed it almost completely but it had some side affects! It was on the official dell web site!

There are some custom made programs which can control the lightfx

I'm confused. Disabling sound effects? What effects are we talking about?
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post #9 of 14
8/1/07 at 2:26pm
This annoyed me so much I installed XP and run a dual boot.

No sound problems when using xp
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post #10 of 14
8/9/07 at 9:45am
Im referring to the sound enhancements and effects you can enable!

As for the lightfx if you activate the lights and then close down quickset the problem almost goes away. I only have problems when quickset effects and music is playing at the same time!
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post #11 of 14
8/9/07 at 12:28pm
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I don't have the sound enhancements enabled, or any of that sort. I get crackling in videos, movies, music.
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post #12 of 14
8/10/07 at 11:48pm
I have noticed similar with my E1705.

It increases in severity when I am running on battery power so this makes me think it is mainly an issue with the processor and voltage/multiplier adjustments.

As for a fix...... nothing I have tried with either a friends M1710 or my E1705 really fixes it (not in XP or Vista).

Hopefully someone can figure this out, but I think it is just a shoddy built in sound card combined with an electronically noisy motherboard that doesn't handle reducing/increasing multiplier/voltage very efficiently.
(I could always be wrong..... but this is my "opinion")

D.
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post #13 of 14
8/11/07 at 3:31am
Go to Network Connections, right click your wireless connection, then hit Properties. Then hit Configure and go to the Advanced tab. Under Disable Bands, set it to Disable 802.11a. If you don't have this setting, you're not using the latest drivers. See if that helps.
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post #14 of 14
8/16/07 at 1:20am
I have a similar problem. When playing mp3 in windows media player, I get distortion for a few seconds in the last 30 seconds of every song played. I have found that this does not occur when I use the Creative Media Source player. I do have vista. It seems to me that this is more of a vista/windows media player issue.
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