Enable Acer Tuba CineBass Booster for True 5.1 Channel Surround Sound Output on Windows XP

Luiz Carlos said… Hello all! I have a Aspire 6920 like some and I did a "downgrade" to Windows XP Pro. For this my audio system 5.1 dont work... I hear just the frontals speakers and I tried a lot things to resolve it. Some could help me, plz?!? I thxs too much!!

Psybirtz said… Hello People, I download all the drivers for aspire 6920g as link above and almost all is compatible using Windows Xp but the problem is i can't find the installer for acer eAudio that will work in Windows xp because without acer eAudio the sound for tuba is not good as the same in windows vista. so please if any one can give the driver for acer eAudio that will work in windows xp. many thanks.... Psybirtz



Hi Luiz Carlos and Psybirtz ...
It's hard for me to explain this without pictures in comment area.. so I write this tutorial here...
to enable Acer Tuba CineBass Booster for true 5.1 channel surround sound output on Windows XP (Aspire 6920G - Aspire 8920G) Please follow these steps:

Step 1:
Open Control Panel

Step 2:
Select Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices


Step 3:
select Sounds and Audio Devices



Step 4:
Click Advanced button, Advance Audio Properties will appear

Step 5:
Select Speaker Setup ...


Anyone try this yet ?
I'm waiting your report...

UPDATE 1 :
According to comments....

• i tried this steps, it works but the problem is the bass quality sound its really bad, sound like a can. i think needs some drivers same with the vista. can someone have the acer eaudio for windows xp. thanks...
• I also just downgraded and cannot get the bass to work... It's really a shame if its not possible to get it working with xp.

This is not work... Anyone can help me...?

UPDATE 2 :
Hi everyone... I need complete hardware data from Aspire 6920 or Aspire 8920...
Please download this "Hardware detector" application (Download here - 1,6MB) then please double click on hwinfo32.exe

then please save the report as Text Logfile and upload it to file hosting website.... (e.g. Rapidshare) then please make a comment contains download link
Thanks


UPDATE 3 : Anonymous said… i tried this steps, it works but the problem is the bass quality sound its really bad, sound like a can. i think needs some drivers same with the vista. can someone have the acer eaudio for windows xp. thanks...

Try this :

1. Right click on speaker icon... open volume control


2. Make sure that "subwoofer" is listed on Master Volume window


3. If not, click Options > Properties , make subwoofer appear on Master Volume window....


4. Then please lower the level on subwoofer .....


UPDATE 4 :
Anonymous said… hi guys i have the same problem but i did notice that in the windows sound mixer subwofer doesnt affect the tuba instead playng with the earphones slider changes the tubas volume so im thinking the driver is sending the tuba the wrong chanel anyone got any ideas on corecting this

if "Subwoofer" in UPDATE 3 doesn't work, try to adjust volume level of "Internal Subwoofer" or something sounds like that....
and you must use sound driver from Acer.. . (Download here)

and try this :

1. Right click on speaker icon... open volume control



2. Click Options > Advanced Controls



3. Click Advanced button


4. Advanced Controls for Master Volume will appear..... this screenshot was not taken from Aspire 6920G/8920G, so some of these settings may be different, I hope you can make some adjustment and make Acer Tuba CineBass Booster better on Windows XP.



and I think Acer Tuba CineBass Booster is not a true subwoofer... it's just a bass booster for laptop...


Thanks to Gary and FoxingDemon




I'm waiting your report


UPDATE 5 :
Anonymous said…
hi
to enable tuba bass booster plz use audio driver for acer aspire 5920g for xp. its work for me.

Thanks anonymous....
Audio Driver Aspire 5920G (Download)

UPDATE 6 :
Jay said…

****!!THIS WORKS!!**** - I ran Driver Genius Professional Edition and it provided me with the driver I needed to get the bass working on my computer.

I have uploaded it here:
realtek_hdaudio_226_xp.zip -
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b2beecda489aa05e6e7203eb87368129e04e75f6e8ebb871

Once installed and your system has rebooted, open Realtek HD Audio Manager from the task bar and click the Mixer tab. Scroll the Playback section to the right to display additional controls. Crank the subwoofer control up to the desired setting and volia, you have bass!

Still doesn't sound as good as the sound on my old Inspiron 9300 but its way better than it was sounding without the bass. Also, I'm left very disappointed with Acer's tech support as the only option they left me with was paying $60 for a half hour of support which may or may not have solved my problem, and if they couldn't solve my problem, I still would have been charged. Apparently downgrading the OS voids Acer’s warranty. Acer's tech support is apparently just as lame as Vista.

Also, in the Bass Managment Setting tab, crank the LFE (sub) up to 10.


Thank you.... Jay... btw to make sure the driver will available forever, this is mirror for "realtek hdaudio 226 xp" (Download)

Windows XP Already Installed in IDE Mode, How to Install and Enable AHCI ?

Windows Already Installed in IDE Mode, How to Install and Enable AHCI ?
There are so many questions about how to install and enable AHCI mode in system that Windows on it is already installed in IDE mode. After hours of reading  I found a software from Lenovo. 

Step 1 :
Download Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver 7tim04ww.exe (Download)
Link from lenovo website is dead please use this link (http://www.mediafire.com/?pwowpmd5ayya35u) to download 7tim04ww.exe

Step 2 :
Install (Extract) to C:\DRIVERS\WIN\IMSM



Step 3 :
Run C:\DRIVERS\WIN\IMSM\PREPARE\install.cmd


Step 4 :
Restart your laptop, go to BIOS (press F2 - Acer) and enable AHCI mode. read this for example (change sata mode to AHCI and vice versa)

Step 5 :
The Found New Hardware wizard will start automatically... click No, not this time



Step 6 :
Select Install form a list or specific location (Advance), click Next



Step 7 :
Select Include this Location in the search :



Step 8 :
Include this path C:\DRIVERS\WIN\IMSM , and click Next > Done

If you want to insert driver to make Windows XP installation CD detect sata AHCI (read this - guide to insert driver)

Boost Your Acer Microphone Volume

Someone asked me a question about Acer Microphone problem (read comment)
Hi Anonymous, to boost your Acer microphone volume, please follow these steps :

Step 1 :
Click Start > Control Panel










Step 2 :
Click Sounds, Speech, and Audio Device



Step 3 :
Click Sounds and Audio Devices

Step 4 :
Click Audio tab



Step 5 :
Click Volume..., recording control window will appear




Step 6 :
Click Options > Advanced Controls



Step 7 :
Click Advanced, Advanced controls for Mic Volume will appear



Step 8 :
Select the Microphone Boost check box, click Close



Done !
or you can try this :

1. Double click on Realtek Audio icon

2. Click Mixer tab and please make sure that Advanced Controls is enabled in Mixer Toolbox window



3. Click to open Microphone Advanced Setting



4. Select the Microphone Boost check box, click OK


Done ! good luck...

Merge and Hide a Compressed File (Zip or Rar) into a Picture

All of us... of course have many secret files (secret picture, secret movie, etc) 
We must hide those files... it's simple, we can hide a compressed file (rar/zip) into a image file (jpg)...

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For example I have two files, secret.rar and rose.jpg and located in C:\
to hide secret.rar you must merge it with rose.jpg1. Open command prompt, click Start > Run... > type cmd then click OK

2. type cd\


3. type copy /b rose.jpg + secret.rar secret_rose.jpg

4. press Enter, it will create secret_rose.jpg file



when someone open secret_rose.jpg, it will open up rose.jpg inside secret_rose.jpg



to open compressed file inside secret_rose.jpg simply rename it to secret_rose.rar