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Fixing sound performance on an Acer laptop

January 23, 2007 By Uncategorized 57 Comments

I bought a new laptop last Friday – and Acer Aspire 5570 – and I’m finally happy with it, but it took a few days.   THere was an annoying problem with poor sound and DVD performance, that seemed as if there was a big elephant hoggin memory somewhere.   I tried dozens of solutions and finally found this guy, who tried everything I did too, except he solved the problem:

What I did to fix it was to go to the HARDWARE part under the SYSTEM options (Control Painel). Under the IDE Controllers part I had PRIMARY IDE and the INTEL one. What I did was right click and select UNINSTALL on the IDE one… When I rebooted the whole machine was way faster, specially sound playback. Under the IDE Controllers I still get the same icons (Primary IDE and the Intel one) but I’m 100% sure that this was the cause of the fix.

It worked for me as well, and everything just hums now.

[tags] Acer, Aspire, sound problems[/tags]

Victoria on a winter’s night

January 22, 2007 By Travel

Victoria, BC

It’s dry here tonight, on the south end of Vancouver Island, and I sat on the balcony of my hotel room looking out over the Inner Harbour, watching a mixed flock of cormorants and common mergansers fish for shiners around the houseboats of Fisherman’s Wharf.

I really like this city.   Tonight I took a walk around James Bay, an old Victorian neighbourhood consisting of tree lined streets and houses of every imaginable shape and size and age huddled up against apartment blocks and the hotels along the harbour walkway.   It has been raining, a steady rain in an ever brightening sky, but tonight it is just calm and warm and quiet.

Ate lunch today at the Heron Rock Bistro.   Unremarkable crab salad sandwich, made all the more so by the fact that I had ordered a wild salmon sandwhich.   And a weak shot of espresso.   The best espresso in this town is at Cafe Macchiato on Broad Street.   That is the definitive shot of espresso around here.   Prove me otherwise.

Conscious darkness

January 22, 2007 By Being

From whiskey river:

“One does not become enlightened

by imagining light,

but by making the darkness conscious.”

– C.G. Jung

Photo by flyzipper

Three systems for communicating

January 22, 2007 By Conversation, Notes, Uncategorized

Found in some email conversations lately, three systemic methods for communicating well:

Photo by Susan NYC

It’s not where you think

January 22, 2007 By Leadership One Comment

The truth, from a site that excels in getting it right: indexed.   Props to Dave Snowdon for the link