[FIXED] ASUS G73JH Audio Issue – System Locks Up
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Mar.20,2010Because I’m lazy, I’m going to copy and paste my post from the NBR forums here:
This is also going to be a direct copy-and-paste from the NBR forums about an issue that I personally ran into. Credit goes to xzero101. Hopefully this can help someone! Click more to read on.
Ok guys, I finally found a fix for the random crackling noise in Win 7.
Here’s are the steps :
1) Unistall the “Realtek High Definition Audio Driver” from “Programs and Features” in the control panel.
2) Goto http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/…&GetDown=false, check the little box and click next. And on the next page, download the Win 7 (64bit) Driver Version R2.42.
3) The most important part is to install the driver in compatibility mode to “Windows Vista (Service Pack 2)”. To do this right click on the download driver setup, Goto “Properties” and click on the “Compatibility” Tab..After doing that just install the driver and restart your lappy.
3) After you restarted the comp, open “Sound” from the Control Panel. There should be 2 playback devices named “Speakers”. The 2nd one is already set as default driver, so to make your sound better just Set the 1st driver as default playback device and after your done with that, just mute the 2nd “Speakers” device by going to it’s “Properties”.
Finally your “Sound” window should like this :
The Creative software won’t work this method, so just uninstall them. They are kinda useless to me anyways.
Well hope this helps for anyone whose having sound problems with their G73s. Good Luck and Enjoy 
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The problem with this is that with that driver when you use headphones it will leave the subwoofer on. It does fix the freezing thing though, however it does not fix the fn + esc problem.
After have all the job done I have the subwoofer (you can call it 3′ speaker or bass speaker or whatever you want) not working. Have you some other tricks. I like so much the sound of original 2.1 speakers. Thank you. Fabio