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Fixing sound performance on an Acer laptop

January 23, 2007 By Chris Corrigan Uncategorized 57 Comments

I bought a new laptop last Friday – and Acer Aspire 5570 – and I’m finally happy with it, but it took a few days.   THere was an annoying problem with poor sound and DVD performance, that seemed as if there was a big elephant hoggin memory somewhere.   I tried dozens of solutions and finally found this guy, who tried everything I did too, except he solved the problem:

What I did to fix it was to go to the HARDWARE part under the SYSTEM options (Control Painel). Under the IDE Controllers part I had PRIMARY IDE and the INTEL one. What I did was right click and select UNINSTALL on the IDE one… When I rebooted the whole machine was way faster, specially sound playback. Under the IDE Controllers I still get the same icons (Primary IDE and the Intel one) but I’m 100% sure that this was the cause of the fix.

It worked for me as well, and everything just hums now.

[tags] Acer, Aspire, sound problems[/tags]

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  1. smith says:
    December 22, 2010 at 10:16 am

    I’m a somewhat advanced computer user and had been looking at laptops for a while before buying the Acer AS5742Z-4685. I dug into all of the specs of about 6 different models and zeroed in on this one as the best value. The price point was above the $300 I spent on our ‘family’ laptop a year ago, but I’m glad I spent the extra $100 (check out some of the private sellers’ prices).See Here: Acer AS5742Z-4685 15.6-Inch Laptop (Mesh Black)

  2. rc says:
    January 31, 2011 at 6:22 pm

    when i plug in my head phones the speaker dosent turn off, everybody complains about my my metal music, any ways donno how to fix, please help!!

    1. Chris Corrigan says:
      January 31, 2011 at 6:53 pm

      Try listening to Jazz?

  3. Alan Ross says:
    March 23, 2011 at 11:03 am

    Detopar Chris,
    I am desperately trying to recover the sound on my labtop. I have downloaded registry booster, driver set-up and driver booster amongst others in is a vain attempt to recover my sound. My mobile number is 07551908435. Please call if you can help. Thanks, Alan
    xxx

  4. Jrod says:
    May 18, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    hey, i have an ACER ASPIRE 5532 series. The sound output is not as loud as i would like. Is there a driver or software that i can install to make the sound output louder?

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