
“This generates spacious and cinematic-quality surround. The ASUS N550JX has multi-channel sound output: “SonicMaster Premium with quad-speaker array” This is usually enough to allow the computer to run, but very often there will be problems if you use a program that makes heavy use of the sound card.


If the manufacturer’s drivers are not installed or not properly installed, Windows may install its best guess generic drivers. In most cases it is best to use the drivers that are supplied by the computer manufacturer as these are designed to work with their specific sound card. Realtek make generic drivers for their sound card chips. Someone said to uninstall the realtek drivers and just use the windows audio drivers instead and that solved their problem.īad or incorrect sound card drivers can cause all sorts of weird problems. I did some googling and found out some things.
