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That's a very flattering depiction of me, Macca

Intel does a scan of your PC to find relevant drivers, doesn't look like Realtek does. I shall investigate when my osprey nest is quiet

As for loose wires - I think there's a huge thread on Notebook Forum but it will be years old - there may be tear-down pictures there. It would be an adventure to open it up

Harmon the eaglet is reunited with his parents.

Story (italics by Razzle):

The nest became very muddy after a heavy rain and the eaglet sank into this muck and became entangled. As Harmon struggled small sticks punctured his back resulting in the wounds. The parents stayed with the eaglet and tried to feed it but Harmon's position made that difficult.

A rescue team took Harmon from the nest and treated his maggoty wounds and fed him, and this vid shows what happened after he was replaced on the nest. I don't know how many days had elapsed since he was taken.



Don't tell me they're not human

Thanks for the tips, chaps.

No Realtek Sound Manager, Des

I've never come across external sound cards, SG1 - don't suppose I had to Problem with that solution could be that the USB sockets are in the rear of the laptop, 4 of them crowded together > I have to be careful what I put in there cos if it sticks out it could get bent if the laptop is tipped, which it's quite likely to be.

However, later...

Found my JBL On Tour external speaker, plugged in to headphone socket and Bachman-Turner Overdrive are belting out

In view of that, and also that the inbuilt speakers are playing very quietly both in WMP and VLC, and also that anything recorded on the Asus plays fine on other laptops, would you think that the problem is hardware related? It's going to be a nuisance to have to have external speakers.

Asus G1Sn-AK014C 15.6" laptop

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

This is the one that Macca sorted out the BSODs. The sound is very quiet on it, it never used to be. I even reinstalled Windows, which I thought did improve it for a while, but now I'm wondering if it's hardware related - in which case I'd be very upset cos it's the only "large" screen I've got.

This machine records a nest 24/7 (with off/ons when I periodically transfer to M11x for editing), as you may know, I need the screen size for seeing the picture clearly @ about 4ft, and I need the sound to alert me to "events" because I'm doing other things.

Windows says that the driver's up-to-date, and the volumes are on full in mixer. It's just Realtek High Definition.

The laptop has a nearly full HD display, don't know how much it would cost for a new laptop with at least the same quality and at least the same power (it's much slower for editing than the M11x even though it's an ex-gamer).

Aw damn, got angry bear after all that >

Are you subscribed to 989razzle, Foxy? She's a great monitress and YouTube uploaderess re Decorah eagles, as well as a number of other raptors.

You couldn't mass-produce them, you might be accused of aiming them at the youth market

I bet you could make something similar, Macca