{"id":1079,"date":"2007-01-23T00:54:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T08:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2007-01-23T00:54:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T08:54:29","slug":"fixing-sound-performance-on-an-acer-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/fixing-sound-performance-on-an-acer-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing sound performance on an Acer laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a new laptop last Friday &#8211; and Acer Aspire 5570 &#8211; and I&#8217;m finally happy with it, but it took a few days. \u00a0 THere was an annoying problem with poor sound and DVD performance, that seemed as if there was a big elephant hoggin memory somewhere. \u00a0 I tried dozens of solutions and finally found <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.notebookreview.com\/archive\/index.php?t-96084.html\">this guy<\/a>, who tried everything I did too, except he solved the problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8230; 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&#8217;m 100% sure that this was the cause of the fix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It worked for me as well, and everything just hums now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[tags] Acer, Aspire, sound problems[\/tags]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a new laptop last Friday &#8211; and Acer Aspire 5570 &#8211; and I&#8217;m finally happy with it, but it took a few days. \u00a0 THere was an annoying problem with poor sound and DVD performance, that seemed as if there was a big elephant hoggin memory somewhere. \u00a0 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 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-hp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}