My Acer Laptop is very quiet

mrs_potato_head

Hi

I Have an Acer Aspire 5100, and even with the volume turned high it's very quite when listening music/watching dvd's etc, but say if I shut the pc down the 'windows music' is really loud.

Is there something I can adjust?

Thanks in advance
Mrs P

jampton

Try start / control panel / sounds and audio devices / advanced

mrs_potato_head

Thanks, have just tried that and it seems that everything is up to the max - perhaps they don't go very loud then??

Mrs P

x_Wilco_x

Have you tried adjusting the media players own volume as well as the system volume in control panel? Media player volume could be down low (causing music/video to be quiet) with system volume maxed out (causing loud start up/shut down)...

ginjim

also on msn adjust the sounds on that
if i adjust it on mie then it controls the whole sound on the laptop for some reason

IcyEars

On our Samsung laptops at work, the volume is controlled by the sound driver software, so it all sounded very quiet, but when this software has already shutdown (i.e. when the laptop was shutting down and starting up), the volume went to max by default.

We figured out that there was a key combination on the keyboard that we could use to change it. On that laptop, you had to press the function key and then the page up or down to change the volume. These keys had a little speaker symbol with up and down arrows.

It might be worth checking your keyboard in case you are suffering something similar.

mrs_potato_head

Hi

I can adjust the volume this way, but the loud still isn't loud.

ginjim, do you mean msn messenger??

Mrs P

energy80s

I have a 5100 and the audio is very loud for all the size of the built-in speakers. However audio quality is similar to a transistor radio! Do yourself a favour and add a decent speaker system to it (it doesn't have to cost the earth).

Rev

I have a 5051 and the sound is really low on that to.

Donnie

They are a little on the quiet side. I just bought the Acer Aspire 5051ANWXMI with all of the extras for £350.

AMD Turion 64 Mobile MK-36 2.0GHz
Cache Size (KB) 512KB L2 cache
Bus Speed (MHz) 533FSB
RAM (MB) 512MB
RAM Max. Expandable (MB) 2GB
RAM Type DDR2-533
Storage SATA HDD
Hard Drive (GB) 80
DVD Drive DVD Super Multi Drive (DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW/RAM)
Display Size (Inch) 14.1''
Display Type WXGA Acer CrystalBrite TFT
Data Input Keyboard, Touchpad
Modem V.92
Modem Speed (Kbps) 56K
Network 10/100Mbps LAN
Acer Wireless InviLink 802.11b/g
USB 2.0 x 3
Other Interfaces IEEE1394 / 1 x RJ-45 / 1 x RJ-11 / VGA output / S-Video Out / 5-in-1 Card Reader(for SD / MMC / MS / MS Pro/xD)
Battery Type Li-Ion Battery 6cell
Battery Life Avg. 2.6hrs.
Operating System XP Professional
Integrated Bluetooth, Acer OrbiCam integrated 0.31 megapixel CMOS Camera
Weight 2.40 kg.