Acer Aspire One audio problems

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When listening to any music file the music skips and lags. Youtube does the same thing, but sites like purevolume.com run fine. Also, movies running on Quicktime run fine as well with no audio issues. I also experience the audio skipping/lag in the games I run with this thing(WoW, UT, and Fallout). Is this a driver issue? My drivers are up to date. Or is this a hdd issue? Or none of the above?

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Er. . . the problem is trying to find what software you may have installed that has the problematic codec-- usually audio or video related programs. But some other games might do it too, although increasingly unlikely. What I would do is uninstall anything audio or video related (viewers, editors, codec-packages)
 
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I'm pretty certain flash, IE youtube, doesn't use system codecs, flash doesn't like to use system anything, so I don't think that's the problem.

Getting the same issue and am guessing its slightly unhappy audio device drivers.

 
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Problems with intermittent skipping, that is, in some apps but not others, may have to do with which codec is being accessed to do the decompression / rendering.

Example: For mp3 decompression, the windows default dll is mp3dmod.dll. If this dll get's overwritten you can experience problems described in the original post. I only mention this because last time I encountered this issue, the fix was to restore that file. But there could be other non-standard dlls that could be causing the symptoms, and those dlls usually come in codec-packages or audio applications that are either inferior or otherwise non-standard.
 
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I'll chime in. I bought three of these Acer Aspire One's for my kids for Christmas. All three were the Windows XP OS, with the 120GB hard drive. On all three I installed the same after-purchase software: Mozilla Firefox, Webroot anti-virus, Malwarebytes and AOL Instant Messenger. The Acers are not used for anythig heavy, pretty much just the AIM and YouTube videos.

I had this same sound problem develop on one of them within a week. I did a system restore and that fixed it, but I put the same software back on. The problem returned so brought it back to the store and exchanged it. The new has been fine, and I put the software back on it.

Acer #2 developed the sound problem last week. I tried to find a sound card driver update, that didn't work. I reinstalled the factory sound card drivers, that didn't work. I just did a system restore tonight and that fixed it. Now I'll slowly ease in the software to narrow it down.

The one thing I get suspicious of is Firefox. It asks for a Flashplayer update, and I wonder if that has anything to do with it? We'll see.
 
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This worked great. I had to follow the link in IE rather than firefox, but after reset everything worked perfectly.

I had tried nearly everything else, reinstalling audio drivers, etc., etc., and was prepared to do a factory reset. This link was like a miracle cure.

Thanks!!!




 
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Awesome... it solved the sound issue immediately. The link didn't work in Firefox but worked fine in IE.

Many, many thanks.
 
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I tried this software, I even bought it and I still have NO sound on my Aspireone w/Windows XP ???? I never saw a Audio Driver listed when using this software to replace???? Steve (tstevens@elp.rr.com)
 
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Certainly, my Aspire One was PIO mode as the site suggests. Thank God simply reading the link guided me to update the registry without the need to download or pay for anything. I am glad I got it back to DMA mode. Too bad the audio problem did not get fixed completely. It does not skip any more, but it still sounds like out of the stall with some weird echo. BTW I am using k-lite codecs, which are really cool and have given me no problems with any other systems. In fact my AAO was running nicely with k-lite before a virus stroke. I cleaned the virus and then the audio was screwed. If anybody finds other ways on how I can fix this, please let us know.
 
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Certainly, my Aspire One was PIO mode as the site suggests. Thank God simply reading the link guided me to update the registry without the need to download or pay for anything. I am glad I got it back to DMA mode. Too bad the audio problem did not get fixed completely. It does not skip any more, but it still sounds like out of the stall with some weird echo. BTW I am using k-lite codecs, which are really cool and have given me no problems with any other systems. In fact my AAO was running nicely with k-lite before a virus stroke. I cleaned the virus and then the audio was screwed. If anybody finds other ways on how I can fix this, please let us know.
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.... and after re-installing the driver (actually I updated to the latest version of the audio driver from the manufacturer's website: http://www.acer.com) it all runs beautifully. From the link provided by citywireless ( http://winhlp.com/node/10 , thanks that did it!) don't download nor pay for anything. Simply read and fix the registry as instructed. That'll get rid of the skipping. If there's still a weird echo, reinstall or upgrade the audio driver. That really has to fix it, but if you still have problems after that, it has to be caused by some nasty virus, a strange codec or malfunctioning hardware issue. If so, each has to be dealt on its own.
 
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I have found that the right speaker of my AOA-150-1063 is way too close to the hard disk unit, and playing too loud music or sounds makes the hard drive crazy, giving out read errors to the SMART log and to the system (thus making it PIO). Acer should recall this units so the speaker can´t make interference with the hard drive unit, which can be rendered useless if the problem persists.


 
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I have to agree with all the positive feedback. I had terrible sound and slowness and this link fixed everything like magic. WOW!!! The time and aggravation you saved me is greatly appreciated. Thanks for posting this solution!!!
 
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the link not onlyfixes udio, youtube, winamp,etc. but many other problems and speeds up everything too. Thanks.
 
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P.S.

I've emailed myself the links as well as the script so I can fix the problem from anywhere should it rear up it's ugly head again.

So long folks, ghoroonet.
 
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This was the fix. Worked perfectly. Reset system to use DMA and now it sounds awesome again.

That's the short of it. Here's the story for those who may find it helpful for their own troubleshooting.

The AA1 is my wife's. She's a fitness instructor and uses it for both music and prepping with some videos. She normally uses her earbuds when listening to music on it and she uses a cable from the earphone jack to a sound board when playing music for classes. She rarely uses the built-in speakers.

The problems she began to experience were system slowness and pauses and jitters in audio from both MP3's and Youtube.

She had not experienced any of these problems until the other day when she was prepping a new Zumba (dance workout) routine and we had plugged her AA1 into our new TV with the VGA connector. This was the first time it had been plugged into an external monitor of any kind. We didn't have an audio cable handy to run the sound through the TV so she turned up the volume on AA1 and played the audio through the built-in speakers.

Within a few second of the video (from Youtube) starting, her laptop blue screened. We restarted it and she contnued with her work. Then she noticed the symptoms over the next few days.

She was convinced that using the external VGA connector had caused the crash and the crash had corrupted a file - probably a sound driver. We had not installed any new software for quite a while before that so I wasn't entirely sure that she might not be right.

I ran through all the normal trouble shooting stuff just like everyone else mentioned and then I read this forum. It all sounded familiar until I read the message quoted above. After reading the results that was getting, I decided to try it. But first I read the post that mentioned the speaker being near the HDD. Eureka!

When we had cranked up the volume on my wife's AA1 to play that video, we had EMPed the HDD! (No sniping, I know it not quite the same.) The system blue screened to death and came back as a PIO zombie. Winhlp's anti-PIO zombie elixir was just what was needed.

Regards,

Glenn
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This worked wonders for me too for a little while until the system crashed and I got the BSOD, I was only using youtube and a forum site. After it had restarted, it keeps going to the bsod and won't load windows. I'm looking as to remedy this problem currently but til then I'm just going to have to use the linux partition of my drive. So beware lol.
 
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OMG it solved my problem. all the while i thought there was a problem with my hardware. my audio is working perfectly.

thank you so much :pt1cable:
 
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FIXED!! Thanks so much!!

I was a bit skeptical at first but I was i dire need of fixing the problem asap and it works!! Got my tunes playing perfectly back on my laptop!!

Many thanks,

My faith in forums has been restored :)

Gillian
 
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