You can go to Start - Control Panel - Device Manager
under "Sound, Video and Game controllers", it should list your audio driver
(something like Conexant AC-Link, or Realtek)
Write down what it shows.
If you want, you can delete the driver, and have Vista try to reinstall it.
click on the driver listed, and press the Delete key and confirm the delete.
Then click on Action - Scan for hardware changes
Vista should look for and install the audio driver.
If it doesn't find it, or installs the incorrect one, you'll have to go to
the Toshiba website and look for the audio driver for your model.
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...port&sn=false#
They also have a user forum on the Toshiba site that could help you better
that I can.
http://laptopforums.toshiba.com/tshb...oard.id=brd_av
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"Danielcarlson@xxxxxx"
<Danielcarlsonhotmailcom@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> Thanks for some direction.... I haven't been able to find this much help
> anywhere Dave. I'm not too much of a geek so could you steer me in the
> right
> direction to update my audio drivers? Where would I find them? In the
> device
> manager? And if so would it be under a plug and play USB? I'm lost here.
>
> Thanks a billion Dave (you know what they say... a billion here and a
> billion there, pretty soon your talking real thanks) LOL
>
> "Dave" wrote:
> Quote:
>> Well, I don't know about memory leaks, but I'd try to update the audio
>> driver, to see if that would help.
>>
>>
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>> "Danielcarlson@xxxxxx"
>> <Danielcarlsonhotmailcom@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news
CEE3853-5384-4D8F-8674-36103F54DDD5@xxxxxx Quote:
>> > I'm not sure, Dave, what difference it will make to describe my system
>> > if
>> > it's just one of those things that happen with audiodg. But I have an
>> > AMD
>> > dual-core 32-bit processor, 3 Gigs memory, 200 GB hard drive at 5400
>> > RPM.
>> > It's a laptop, Toshiba and it didn't make all the strange screeching,
>> > jumbled
>> > and static noises, cutting out and everthing until lately. The audiodg
>> > process gets as high as 300,000 bytes and takes up as much as 80% of my
>> > memory. And it's annoying as heck.
>> >
>> > I scoured the internet, Microsoft support too, but found nothing up
>> > till I
>> > landed here. The Microsoft support said "Sorry Charlie, you must go to
>> > the
>> > manufacturer for help." The manufacturer, Toshiba, is telling people
>> > it's
>> > not
>> > a hardware problem so that's that. And unless I misread what has been
>> > said
>> > here, the best thing to do is not to play music at all.
>> >
>> > It's worst when I try to do videos on youtube, but then It's not always
>> > happening. But doing a restart has not made a difference it seems. It
>> > may
>> > bring down the memory in bytes but the percentage is still way up there
>> > and
>> > the sound is usually not better.
>> >
>> > Got any ideas? I've seen people talk about "leaks" but I don't know
>> > what
>> > that means.
>> >
>> > Thanks though for replying.....
>> > Dan
>> >
>> > "Dave" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Perhaps you should back up a bit, and explain your problem a bit
>> >> more..
>> >> What program are you using to play music?
>> >> System specs, etc.
>> >>
>> >> I just opened Windows Media Player and started to play a list of mp3
>> >> files.
>> >> My CPU usage went up as high as 90 %, but the music sounds just fine.
>> >> Using Process Explorer, I saw that wmplayer was using 30-40%, and
>> >> searchindexer was using 40-50%.
>> >> After the indexer stopped, the CPU usage dropped to less than 20%,
>> >> with
>> >> wmplayer using less than 1 %.
>> >> audiodg uses less than 1 %.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >> "Danielcarlson@xxxxxx"
>> >> <Danielcarlsonhotmailcom@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:FE222315-16D5-42C7-8A47-A5201DA0592D@xxxxxx
>> >> > So there is no alternative to having terrible sound on my machine
>> >> > because
>> >> > Audiodg hogs the memory? If I want to listen to my music I have to
>> >> > do
>> >> > it
>> >> > outside Windows? I have Vista Home Premium and I want my money back!
>> >> > Show
>> >> > me
>> >> > to the door please!
>> >> >
>> >> > "evb60" wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The audiodg proces is indeed a system proces, which is used sound
>> >> >> processing on your machine. More about the proces can be read in
>> >> >> this
>> >> >> blog post:
>> >> >> http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/...diodg-exe.aspx
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The solution to the CPU problem has been to me to disable the
>> >> >> service
>> >> >> in computer management at reboot, so it wouldn't start at system
>> >> >> bootup.
>> >> >> Then, when I'm back in windows, I just re-enable it. At that point
>> >> >> in
>> >> >> time, it won't eat your CPU anymore.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I have no exact explanation to why it eats that much cpu, but I
>> >> >> expect
>> >> >> it to be a driver incompatibility. Porbably the Realtek AC97 (in my
>> >> >> case) drivers aren't reacting the way audiodg expects them to do.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
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