Acer Aspire One audio problems

[Guest]

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.

 

[glennahall]

just follow this link

http/winhlp.com/node/10

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
ghall_51 at Yahoo!

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[javacafe]

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

 

[rutledg2]

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

 

[Guest]

Thanks! My aspire one is back to normal again, the sound was terrible but using this link has completely restored it back to normal. Acer were not much help at all and advised a drastic ALT F10, but thanks to you there was no need! Definitely Recommend if your Acer Aspire one sound is degrading!

just follow this link

http/winhlp.com/node/10

sound works like a dream now and you tube videos
did this on numerous brand new AA1 from wal mart
city wireless data services and pc repair

 

[juuuuliaaaaa]

i'm trying to access the link, but it keeps telling me "page load error" because the link's server is taking too long to respond. did anyone else have problems accessing the link? i have no other internet connection problems, but i do have the same acer aspire one audio problems (the skipping, the slowness, the echo, the weird, trrrrr metallic/robot sounds) and i was hoping this link might work magic for me like it did for everyone else... but i cant seem to get the page to load... neither with firefox nor with explorer!

 

[juuuuliaaaaa]

would someone be willing to maybe copy and paste the initial (non-payment) instructions that seemed to work for everyone else? thanks!

 

[halfalien]

Can Someone explain to me how to run this program. i clicked on the link and all i see are codes.
A step by step instruction on how to execute it will be greatly appreciated. i really like this laptop and don't feel like returning it.
Im really not that good with computers.

Whenever i start a video conference call with the laptop or just a mic conversation the other person voice comes out all choppy and breaking up. and when i try the exact same thing on my other computerit works just fine.



this was the code:

' Visual Basic Script program to reset the DMA status of all ATA drives

' Copyright © 2006 Hans-Georg Michna

' Version 2007-04-04

' Works in Windows XP, probably also in Windows 2000 and NT.
' Does no harm if Windows version is incompatible.

If MsgBox("This program will now reset the DMA status of all ATA drives with Windows drivers." _
& vbNewline & "Windows will redetect the status after the next reboot, therefore this procedure" _
& vbNewline & "should be harmless.", _
vbOkCancel, "Program start message") _
= vbOk Then

RegPath = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\"
ValueName1Master = "MasterIdDataChecksum"
ValueName1Slave = "SlaveIdDataChecksum"
ValueName2Master = "UserMasterDeviceTimingModeAllowed"
ValueName2Slave = "UserSlaveDeviceTimingModeAllowed"
ValueName3 = "ResetErrorCountersOnSuccess"
MessageText = "The following ATA channels have been reset:"
MessageTextLen0 = Len(MessageText)
ConsecutiveMisses = 0
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

For i = 0 to 999
RegSubPath = Right("000" & i, 4) & "\"

' Master

Err.Clear
On Error Resume Next
WshShell.RegRead RegPath & RegSubPath & ValueName1Master
errMaster = Err.Number
On Error Goto 0
If errMaster = 0 Then
On Error Resume Next
WshShell.RegDelete RegPath & RegSubPath & ValueName1Master
WshShell.RegDelete RegPath & RegSubPath & ValueName2Master
On Error Goto 0
MessageText = MessageText & vbNewLine & "Master"
End If

' Slave

Err.Clear
On Error Resume Next
WshShell.RegRead RegPath & RegSubPath & ValueName1Slave
errSlave = Err.Number
On Error Goto 0
If errSlave = 0 Then
On Error Resume Next
WshShell.RegDelete RegPath & RegSubPath & ValueName1Slave
WshShell.RegDelete RegPath & RegSubPath & ValueName2Slave
On Error Goto 0
If errMaster = 0 Then
MessageText = MessageText & " and "
Else
MessageText = MessageText & vbNewLine
End If
MessageText = MessageText & "Slave"
End If

If errMaster = 0 Or errSlave = 0 Then
On Error Resume Next
WshShell.RegWrite RegPath & RegSubPath & ValueName3, 1, "REG_DWORD"
On Error Goto 0
ChannelName = "unnamed channel " & Left(RegSubPath, 4)
On Error Resume Next
ChannelName = WshShell.RegRead(RegPath & RegSubPath & "DriverDesc")
On Error Goto 0
MessageText = MessageText & " of " & ChannelName & ";"
ConsecutiveMisses = 0
Else
ConsecutiveMisses = ConsecutiveMisses + 1
If ConsecutiveMisses >= 32 Then Exit For ' Don't search unnecessarily long.
End If
Next ' i

If Len(MessageText) <= MessageTextLen0 Then
MessageText = "No resettable ATA channels with Windows drivers found. Nothing changed."
Else
MessageText = MessageText & vbNewline _
& "Please reboot now to reset and redetect the DMA status."
End If

MsgBox MessageText, vbOkOnly, "Program finished normally"

End If ' MsgBox(...) = vbOk

' End of Visual Basic Script program

 

[arizia11]

to halfalien:
1) copy and paste the code to notepad..
2) save it as "resetdma.vbs"..
3) double click your saved resetdma.vbs..

and that's it

 

[kenneylee]

just follow this link

http/winhlp.com/node/10

sound works like a dream now and you tube videos
did this on numerous brand new AA1 from wal mart
city wireless data services and pc repair

Great Link!!

Thought my audio driver got too hot and was broken but my primary was set to PIO. I went to the link, manually deleted the registry value, rebooted and its working like new now.

Million Thanx

 

[odie3k]

thanks for the info. it works great.

 

[Guest]

just follow this link

http/winhlp.com/node/10

sound works like a dream now and you tube videos
did this on numerous brand new AA1 from wal mart
city wireless data services and pc repair

I just registreted myself on this site to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

it totaly worked. I was starting to get crazy but the dma solution still didnt cross my mind.

Thanks for solving my problem.

Nikola

 

[OldbagofCairo]

Thanks - worked a treat - have had strange wanging stretched out sound on my skype and music players on my Acer Aspire One for a few weeks now. Downloaded the fix, double clicked it and rebooted - alhamdulilah we are ok now!

 

[justdigging]

Wow...I was totally skeptical. And so I had music playing as I was installing it, but the audio problem was gone instantly after the installation!! Thanks a lot. I was all stressed beforehand thinking it was a hardware problem. The link didn't work for me though, so I searched and found one on rapidshare.

http/rapidshare.com/files/14861593/resetdma.vbs

 

[radioactive1]

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.

Had exactly the same experience (w/ the exception that I didn't buy three for my kids @ Christmas ), however, after having repeated sound issues, re-installing drivers to the factory settings (and everything else under the sun), this little miracle cure did the trick!

Thanks much for the magic elixir!

radioactive1

 

[Guest]

Thanx so much for the link. Racking my brain for weeks trying to fix my daughter's AA1. Works like a charm. Acer should provide a link for this fix.

 

[Guest]

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.

You're right man!! Same problem happened to my AAO even though I ran the resetdma script (wich actually helped a lot). I found that playing music through an external speaker is way much better and solves this problem. No critical issues with normal-volume audio files.

 

[RobMcCall]

to halfalien:
1) copy and paste the code to notepad..
2) save it as "resetdma.vbs"..
3) double click your saved resetdma.vbs..

and that's it

Thanx for making it simple...worked a treat all is A O K........

I had been looking at the latency checker (Link below) prior to running the above (Script) as explained by you, and now the difference can not only be heard but seen clearly,

FREE LATENCY CHECKER TOOL

http/www.thesycon.de/dpclat/dpclat.exe

A cool and simple explanation, a cool and simple script, a cool and simple tool to see the difference and NOW a cool, simple and HAPPY ACER One, user.

Thanx a Mill
Rob

 

[cadu00]

When I try to run the script, it says "no resetteable ATA channels found". Any ideas on what I should do?

The website read as follows:

"Please note that this works only with the Windows drivers. If your device had its own manufacturer's drivers installed, this program cannot fix the problem and will not do anything to them. Instead it will report that no resettable DMA channels were found."

Should i get windows drivers to replace my current drivers and then run the script? Will it work on Vista?