Sound volume low full volume can't hardly hear it hp g71 notebook

I cannot get volume loud enough to hear with full volume. volume slides seem to work but very low volume when turned full up.

To go a few steps further on what Peter has provided on the Speaker Icon, right-click and choose "Playback devices", then highlight "Speakers", which should be selected as the "default" for playback, then select "Properties", then choose the "Enhancements" tab and check-mark the "Loudness Equalization" for a possible audio boost. Hope this provides some joy.

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How many USB-powered 1TB can you plug into an HP G71 Notebook

I'm using Windows 7 (service pack 1). I have 3 USB ports, one of which I've extended with a 4-slot extension.
I bought a Western Digital Elements and an I Omega 1 TB USB portable hard drive (each nominally clocks in at 930 gigabytes). I plugged one into one side of the laptop and another into the 4-slot USB port extension.
These worked great, except I filled 'em up too fast. So I needed another one. I bought another Western Digital Elements drive, exactly like the first one.
The laptop will make a sound when I plug in the third hard drive ... a positive sound that it makes when I plug in the other two. However, the window that pops up for the other two does not pop up for this third. Also, the USB port extension begins chiming ... just a little sound, but it's annoying, and doesn't stop until I unplug the drive. Additionally, the third hard drive is not assigned a drive letter in Windows Explorer. I can, though, unplug the first WD drive and plug in the second WD and the laptop will recognize the drive and assign it a drive letter.
In short, I cannot have all three of the drives up and running at the same time and visible in Windows Explorer, which would allow me to switch files between them.
Is there anyway I can get all three visible and working? Or is there something wrong with the new WD Elements drive? (I think the drive is okay. I copied files to it and used those files just fine).
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Sorry ... none of that exists on my drive. In fact, when looking for a portable hard drive, I specifically sought out drives that had nothing but open space on them. The I-Omega and the Western Digital Element were the two that I found that met that criteria. Nothing in the very thin documentation even suggested that there were hidden files let alone program files for backing up, or partitioning, or whatever.
As for the Disk Management screen ... Yes. I have that. I click on "Computer" in the "Start" menu. However, as you can see (if I've embedded the jpg correctly), even with the second WD drive plugged in, you cannot see it in this menu.
The only place you where you can tell it the computer "sees" it is when I click on the "Remove Hardware Safely" icon. All three connected portable hard drives are listed in that menu, but no drive letter is associated with the second WD. Also, in this screen there is only one thing you can do and that's to disconnect one of the drives. I've tried to right mouse click and get a drop down menu, but no luck.
Okay ... I was wrong ... you can see it under "Devices," but the second WD is a little different. The I-Omega and the first WD get a tool bar that lists Add a Device, Add a Printer, Autoplay, Browse Files, and Eject. The second WD -- as you can see -- does not get the Autoplay and Browse options. Also, I've tried "Add a Device" and the computer did not find the drive. Oh, by the way, when right clicking the second WD for Properties the pop up menu says that the drive is working properly.
So ... you can see my frustration and confusion. I'm beginning to wonder if the computer simply doesn't like the fact that I have two WD drives that are exactly the same.
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[SOLVED]Sound volume VERY low

Following the wiki, I've just set up alsa on a fresh base install. Using mpg123 and mplayer to test it, it appears that the volume is way lower than it should be, even with my speaker volume on max I can just hardly hear the sound. I've properly unmuted the soundcard and set Master, PCM and headphone to 90%. What did I do wrong?
EDIT: Confirming the same problem in flash.
Last edited by ZankerH (2009-02-15 23:24:54)

Are you using an onboard card?
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Hi saiyed adil,
Thank you for contributing to the Apple Support Communities.
It appears that your iPhone 5s sometimes produces low sound, but a restart corrects it.
It can take some time to isolate and resolve intermittent issues like this one, and I'd recommend going through the steps in this guide the next time it occurs:
If you hear no sound or distorted sound from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch speaker - Apple Support
All the best,
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I Tried Everything I Even Restarted My Settings Just So I Can See if That Would Work Because Someone Sujested It But What They Neglected To Say That Their Probrolem Was With A Ipad ? Anywho To Keep It Short I Went Online Logged A Complaint With Apple Made A Appointment With A Apple Store In My Area To Take The Phone There After Trying Everything (Resetting, changing setting etc..........) Nothin Worked Upon Taking The Phone To The Store They Swapped Out My Phone For A New One Volume On New Phone Is Perfect And I Only Had To Wait 40 Minutes

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Satellite A100-532: microphone sound volume is extremely low

I just bought Satellite A100-532 and I have a problem with sound input. I can't use microphone to chat with my friend on msn or even to record my voice on to the hard drive because the sound volume is extremely low.
I tried turning up all the volume on the desktop and on the RealTek HD sound manager but did not help. Microphone is working perfectly fine as I can hear myself well on the speakers.
Normally, with my old laptop (M30 series) I could use the Sound Recorder to record music which I play using Winamp or WinMediaPlayer but for this new laptop it does not detect any sound at all..just silence.
Please advise.

Hi
You should check also the volume controls in the "Sound & Audio devices" in control panel.
In the "Volume" tab please go to "Advanced".
Then a "Volume control" should appear.
Check if all controls are set to high level.
Furthermore enter the "options" and "properties" and enable all volume controls.
Change also to "recording" and enable there also all controls.
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Very low sound volume on Portege R500

The sound volume on my R500 (R500-11c to be exact) is ridiculously low. Only with volume maxed out (100) and using headphones do I hear anything at all, and even then it's way too low to be useful. I can just make out the test sounds in the left and then right earphone when using the test sound found at Control Panel -> Sound -> Speakers (there are no Headphones to be selected) -> Properties -> Advanced -> Test. Unplugging the headphones I hear nothing from the speakers, due to the (very low) sounds made by the fan and HDD. Playing music (with headphones) I can just make out that sounds are being produced, but I can't even make out what is playing.
I've tested the things mentioned in the "Satellite 5105-S901 Sound is very low (even on max volume) using supplied Toshiba driver" thread with no success (including Loudness Equalization).
I'm running Vista Business 32bit, and have tried the driver_audio_realtek26117B.exe, driver_audio_realtek_TC00157600B.exe, and Vista_Win7_R243_x86.exe driver files, and also used the util_mute_off_25847B.exe utility.
Enabling mute makes the already faint sounds go completely silent, so I don't think it's a mute issue.
Jack detection does work, I can see that in the Realtek HD Audio Manager program. Using that program's sound test (Speaker Configuration) I have to go to a completely silent room, and even then I only hear something in the right earphone. (I think; it's so darn low I could be imagining I hear it.)
Decreasing the sound volume slider from 100 does make the almost inaudible sound even harder to even notice, and at around 45 it is no longer audible even in a quiet room with headphones.
So it seems that I somehow need to reset the audio chip to "normal" level. Or it is broken and can't output anything more audible.
Does anyone have any ideas what I can try next? I can boot to XP or Linux if anyone has any ideas on how to get sound there, just to get started. (They're silent as well, I haven't done as extensive testing under those as under Vista.)

Hello, and thanks for answering.
Yes, I have tried increasing the volume in control panel -> Realtek HD audio manager. No success.
I have used a bunch of different drivers, both from toshiba's website and realtek's.
Recently did a fresh XP install on another hard drive (don't have Vista install media), tried both 5.10.0.5869 and 5.10.0.6066 drivers (5.10.0.6066 is from march 13, 2010), sound still as low no matter what I do.
Did the really desperate thing: bought a new (used) sound module on ebay ("Toshiba Portege R500 (PPR50E-00L048EN) USB jack" on ebay.co.uk), but it has the same problem as the original one.
A hardware problem... well maybe, I was thinking perhaps the sound module doesn't get enough power from the motherboard, but since there is some sound (although very low), the USB jack on the module works, the headphone/mic jack detection works, and the diagnostics found in the Control Panel all say that the device is working OK, I don't think it's a hardware problem.
I'm guessing there is a problem with the drivers initializing the sound to a ridiculously low setting, and increasing the volume level to 100 makes it go up to a level equal to perhaps 2 in a regular system. That should be solved by a fresh install, but it isn't.
Perhaps the BIOS messes up the sound? But re-flashing the BIOS doesn't help...
Anyone got any other ideas?
I've googled and found people having problems with low sound volume on other laptops using the ALC262 chip, but no general solution.

Portege R500 audio problem: sound volume too low

The sound volume on my R500 is ridiculously low. Only with volume maxed out (100) and using headphones do I hear anything at all, and even then it's way too low to be useful. I can just make out the test sounds in the left and then right earphone when using the test sound found at Control Panel -> Sound -> Speakers (there are no Headphones to be selected) -> Properties -> Advanced -> Test. Unplugging the headphones I hear nothing from the speakers, due to the (very low) sounds made by the fan and HDD. Playing music (with headphones) I can just make out that sounds are being produced, but I can't even make out what is playing.
I've tested the things mentioned in the "Satellite 5105-S901 Sound is very low (even on max volume) using supplied Toshiba driver" thread with no success (including Loudness Equalization).
I'm running Vista Business 32bit, and have tried the driver_audio_realtek26117B.exe, driver_audio_realtek_TC00157600B.exe, and Vista_Win7_R243_x86.exe driver files, and also used the util_mute_off_25847B.exe utility.
Enabling mute makes the already faint sounds go completely silent, so I don't think it's a mute issue.
Jack detection does work, I can see that in the Realtek HD Audio Manager program. Using that program's sound test (Speaker Configuration) I have to go to a completely silent room, and even then I only hear something in the right earphone. (I think; it's so darn low I could be imagining I hear it.)
Does anyone have any ideas what I can try next? I can boot to XP or Linux if anyone has any ideas on how to get sound there, just to get started. (They're silent as well, I haven't done as extensive testing under those as under Vista.)

Update:
Tried increasing the volume in control panel -> Realtek HD audio manager. No success.
I have used a bunch of different drivers, both from toshiba's website and realtek's.
Recently did a fresh XP install on another hard drive (don't have Vista install media), tried both 5.10.0.5869 and 5.10.0.6066 drivers (5.10.0.6066 is from march 13, 2010), sound still as low no matter what I do.
Did the really desperate thing: bought a new (used) sound module on ebay ("Toshiba Portege R500 (PPR50E-00L048EN) USB jack" on ebay.co.uk), but it has the same problem as the original one.
I was thinking perhaps the sound module doesn't get enough power from the motherboard, but since there is some sound (although very low), the USB jack on the module works, the headphone/mic jack detection works, and the diagnostics found in the Control Panel all say that the device is working OK, I don't think it's a hardware problem.
I'm guessing there is a problem with the drivers initializing the sound to a ridiculously low setting, and increasing the volume level to 100 makes it go up to a level equal to perhaps 2 in a regular system. That should be solved by a fresh install, but it isn't.
Perhaps the BIOS messes up the sound? But re-flashing the BIOS doesn't help...
Anyone got any other ideas?
I've googled and found people having problems with low sound volume on other laptops using the ALC262 chip, but no general solution.

No sound vs low volume

I recently experienced the loss of all sound on my phone. It began after I unplugged the ear phones. I could not hear it ring and I could not hear anyone on the line although they could hear me. It was basically dead for about 4 hours or until I plugged the ear phones back in causing something to reset or whatever. It works fine now and Apple asked that I call when it occurs again so that we can try and trouble shoot and narrow the problem. I may have a defective phone.
I do not think this has any correlation with the "low volume" problem that everyone is talking about. I will agree with another writer that the volume is low until you activate the speaker but I have been using the speaker/hands free since the first day so perhaps that is why I have never experienced low volume. I think if the speaker is activated everyone will experience normal sound volume.
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Faddy wrote:
I installed the Audigy 2 ZS last night. Updated everything, all of the drivers. I plug in my speakers, and nothing at low volume. I turn on music, and theres nothing. If I turn the volume all the way up, theres distortion, white noise, and a bunch of static, but I can hear the music very faintly. I've disabled the onboard audio, and followed the FAQ, but nothing. Any ideas?
Output volume is set with "Wave" and "Master" controls. Max the Wave and control with Master.
In many cases if PSU is weak --> you get issues of this type. Try to remove (temporarily) devices like CD/DVD, floppy, etc. (just remove power/data cables) to see if PSU is the culprit for your issue.
Also, have you checked/tried
- audio HW acceleration and SR conversion quality --> set both max
- audio codecs --> reinstallation can be helpful
- muted all other sources but the one(s) you're using (i.e. all other sources can be muted if only playing audio files)
- digital output only set properly (speaker settings/THX console)
- speakers connected as should (2/2. --> green jack, etc.) and plugs properly pushed in
- speakers set correct (2/2., 4/4., 5., 6/6., 7.)
- used different output device drivers on audio players (DS/MME/WDM/...)
- ASIO capable player --> shows if you have sound driver issue (creative/windows)
- reinstalled directX, WMP (updates audio codecs)
- etc.
jutapaMessage Edited by jutapa on 03-09-200609:34 AM

The sound volume in the videoproject is too low

Hallo,
In Adobe Premiere Elements I3 made several projects. I used the tool Normalisation for the audio in a clip. Untill now this was functioning well. But at the present time I have a problem. Likely I have made a mistake with one of the settings. But I don't know which mistake.
After the Normalisation of the sound in the clip the graphic rendition in the picture in the track Comment is as it should be.
But the real sound is now too low. In the sound mixer I can see that the level of the sound doesn't come higher than -12 where it should actually be 0.
I must have changed an overall setting somewhere with the result that the sound actually is too low.
My question is: how can I restore the old situation where the sound volume was correct?
Thank you in advance.
Greetings,
Hans van den Heuvel
email: [email protected]

Hans van den Heuvel
My first impression of what you describe is this...
1. If you were making audio adjustments with Clip Gain dialog, what happens if you bring up
the Clip Gain dialog and change the value there from -12 to 0.0 dB for the audio clips whose values
have gone from 0 to -12?
More later.
ATR

Sound volume low full volume can't hardly hear it hp g71 notebook

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