Thanx Roheit, I am downloading. On 12/9/11, Rohiet A. Patil <[email protected]> wrote: > aray no problem bhai! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sheik mohammedali" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:14 AM > Subject: Re: [AI] audio device not working > > > would you like to disable your dropbox public links for awhile? smiles > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rohiet A. Patil" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 7:07 AM > Subject: Re: [AI] audio device not working > > > If any one wants SP3 installer then I can upload it on dropbox and share the > link to the list. It's a 316 MB file. Should I? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Umesha Economics" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 8:20 PM > Subject: Re: [AI] audio device not working > > > Hi friends, > sorry for a very long delay in replying. since we had a national conference > on agricultural marketing organized by our department, I was busy with it > and could not able to communicate with the list. > I had a dilemma of changing the subject line of the message but finally left > it unaltered. > first of all, thanks to all the persons who helped me with their ideas and > experiences. now my laptop is working fine. some of them even guided me > through phone. I am grateful to all of them as I would be in a very > difficult situation otherwise. additionally I thank the moderators for > providing such beautiful platform for mutually solving real problems. I know > that thanks messages should be avoided in the list but I could not hold my > feelings. but I have some info to share with the list, out of my laptop > experience and hence wrote this message. and it follows: > out of a few suppliers in the market, dell seems to be the best in terms of > providing information to customers and post purchase service. but if one is > particular about running winXP, one should not go to dell, especially if he > wants to use Wifi. we do not get drivers for the components for which dell > itself is the manufacturer such as Bluetooth and wifi. as I got from the > technical team of dell, only 2 models in vostro series are compatible with > XP. and both of them are out of market. dell only provides service to those > purchased earlier. > sony seems to be expensive and not customer friendly. but I have little > experience. lenovo is one which provides drivers for win XP but not a good > service. I bought ideapad Z570 597654 for Rs. 41370 at Bangalore. this > model's configuration seems to be economically good. but its wifi device > which is an atheros product, is not good and causes DPC latency problem with > the processor. as a result very often audio get interrupted and for jaws > users its really annoyance. this occurs if following conditions prevail: > the wifi driver is installed > wifi device is not disabled in device manager > wifi switch is turned off > > if driver is not installed or it is disabled, latency does not happen. if we > switch on wifi, latency reduces to nearly half and audio problem is not > likely to happen. > as per prateek agarwal's advice, I got another driver which is far better > than one given in lenovo site though it is not perfect. it creates moderate > latency when switched on but no latency when switched off. I checked it in > our university wifi and its working fine with the network. so whenever I do > not use wifi, I switch it off. even if switched on, I have not faced audio > problem so far. > but since it is not a complete solution, I have written to lenovo. they said > that some other (unknown) team will look after the matter and get back to me > (don't know when?). > shona man and salman did not reply whether they have same problem or not. > shona man, its for your info, we cannot uninstall bios update nor revert it > with system restore. restore only looks after system files in the hard disk. > someone in the thread asked for SP3 download link. but the link I provided > in my previous message is wrong and the file I downloaded did not install. > we need a different file and ask sheik mohammedali for more details. > > Umesha > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "prateek aggarwal" <[email protected]> > To: "accessindia" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:25 AM > Subject: Re: [AI] audio device not working > > > Dear umesha, > Right, so the root cause for the issue has been pinpointed. > Believe it or not, people using atheros wi fi adapters are some of > the most frequent complainants of such types of cases. > Athero is cheaper than some of its major competitors, hence many > companies are preferring their hardware in their machines. > > The wiggly red lines that you are seeing are definetly because of the > high latency that its experiencing. > Technically, that means that the wi fi adapter is taking more > resources than it should actually take. > in regards of solutions, > there does not seem a complete rectification of this problem, however > driver update can be of some help. > Try updating the drivers for your athero’s wi fi device and see if it > makes a difference. > As per my recent observation, athero has not been updating their > drivers for windows xp and most of their latest drivers claims to work > well with vista or windows 7. > However, its worth keeping yours to the latest possible, of course the > one that’s compatible with your operating system. > > If that doesn’t work, try reaching to lenovo technical support and > telling them the problem. > You basically have to inquire if its possible to change the hardware > under your sales term. > It has been seen that these companies have made their legal policies > smart enough to save themselves from any possible hazard. Especially > in the case of devices and their compatibility with various operating > system. > Someone on the thread has said that a dos based machine means that > its compatible with any operating system, but I remind of a judgement > given in united states sometime back where it was said that a dos > based machine means that the company has not particularly tested the > machine with different operating systems, hence it would not be > responsible for any hardware compatibility issues. > Legally, whole claim for the compatibility is being smartly averted to > the device manufacturers. > > Though you’ve been condemning to use windows7, but I would still > like to advice that please give it a try at least. > Not just to get acquainted with it, but more importantly to find out > the performance of your audio and wi fi devices with that and check if > a driver update helps there instead. > For your information, windows 7 has an xp mode, which pretty much > brings your old days back. > Also, there are other fantastic programs like classic shell etc > which restores your xp experience to quite an extent. > > Like it or not, not all the latest devices have enough support > available for windows xp now, and the reason behind this is > Microsoft policies where they have deliberately promoted vista and > windows7 over xp from past few years. > It has been already announced that the support for windows xp would > no longer be available after 2014, so I personally find this a wise > decision to upgrade the OS, specially if its causing issues to make > compatibility with latest hardware devices. > Oh and some of you guys have written to me off the list to ask my > contact number. > Those would like to get in touch with me through phone would like to note, > its: > +91-9928341197. > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > Prateek agarwal. > Managing Director, > Daedal technovations pvt. Ltd. > www.daedaltechnovations.com > > website: > www.prateekagarwal.webs.com > | > www.prateekagarwal.tk > > > On 11/24/11, Umesha S E <[email protected]> wrote: >> Dear Salman and others, >> Sorry for the delay. Yesterday I was completely involved in testing >> process. So could not reply. I could find the source of the problem. >> Now we have to work out for the permanent solution. Following is the >> result. But I din’t understand your previous message. 2 days ago, you >> said that you bought your laptop only 3 days earlier. But in the last >> message you said that you restored your machine to November 15th. How >> is it possible? Is your system clock not correct? >> >> To prateek aggarwal, >> Yes sir. It is due to Audio latency. I downloaded DPC Latency Checker >> from the following link: >> http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml >> When I first ran it on the system, I got all the red bars on the graph >> even while there is no sound problem. The latency was varying for >> every 2-3 seconds from about 2500 micro seconds to 12500 or 13500 >> micro seconds. While the sound problem was present, the bars touched >> the sealing of the chart. The latency was recorded in the range of >> 150000 to 300000 micro seconds. Some times it even went up to 700000 >> micro seconds. Surprisingly, even when I disabled my realtek >> soundcard, I got the red bars of same height. Next I suspected network >> cards. The moment I disabled my wifi card, it dropped to very low in >> the green region (125 micro seconds). If I re-enable the wifi card, >> the next second again I got the same red bars. One more thing I like >> to tell you, if I enable wifi device and turn on it using the switch >> provided on the laptop, it substantially drops but not to green >> region. Then I get alternating 2-3 yellow bars (about 1200 micro >> seconds) and 1 or 2 red bars (about 6300 micro seconds). The earlier >> observations are when wifi is enabled but switch is off. I also ran my >> computer for long time to find whether the problem appears after >> disabling wifi and it ran without trouble for hours. So it is clear >> that my atheros Wi-Fi card is causing it. Now please tell me sir, what >> I have to do next for solving that wifi device problem. If you need, I >> will provide the screen shots of the graphs obtained using DPC latency >> checker. >> Salman, as you know this problem does not occur continuously but it >> comes and goes for some minutes. Hence I was testing it by running my >> system for long time. So I could not reply in time. I did not install >> SP3. But if you need it, its download page is >> http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=1260 >> The following links may also be of some use. >> http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=24 >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936929 >> >> To shona man, >> Out of curiosity, I want to know. Can we uninstall BIOS with system >> restore? >> To Kiran Baug, >> Do we have difference between Indian and US sites in terms of >> downloads available for a model? >> >> Umesha >> > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > >
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