Is there ANY solution to this G752VY buzzing speaker?

[davemon50]

IMHO and my experience - it's a HW issue...

You may be right. It's clearly at the location of the subwoofer. Maybe it's just failing. I'll have to look online for a replacement part and see if I can disassemble. I don't think RMA would benefit me, from all that I've read here on the forums about the RMA process with Asus.

[jdfrench3]

Use of headphones - good, then your issue is hardware.

Continue to use the 8443 driver, it's the best I have found.

Good luck with your hardware repair.

[panzlock]

Is there ANY solution to this buzzing speaker?

[davemon50]

Use of headphones - good, then your issue is hardware.

Continue to use the 8443 driver, it's the best I have found.

Good luck with your hardware repair.

Well I ordered a new subwoofer online. Man they are hard to find. Anyway, I'll update the post when I get it and the dreaded disassembly and replacement. I've seen some videos on disassembly, so I think it's quite doable, although nowhere as easy as a drive replacement.

For the record, I also uninstalled the "speaker" driver under audio devices and then reinstalled the audio driver before the next boot. The laptop worked fine. But I don't think any sound was coming from the subwoofer at that point. The buzzing was back after the next boot though, so no resolution there. I have messed with all the individual speaker levels quite a bit and no go. I think you're right and it's just a bad subwoofer, so hopefully the replacement part does the trick. If not my head might really explode as threatened above.

[jdfrench3]

With Windows 10 updates messing with audio drivers of late, I'm actually surprised you didn't have a badly corrupted driver. I had one so bad, I couldn't delete it using the Device Manager. I could delete it in Control Panel/Programs and Features but the driver would remain in Device Manager. That's when I located where the drivers are stored and proceeded to delete them manually (as I instructed you).

Good luck with your install.

[davemon50]

I tried all methods suggested, except I didn't mess inside the registry which I thought would've been a bad idea given my limited knowledge of audio drivers. None of them worked. And since the only time I've seen relief of the issue is when I think the subwoofer is not operating after a driver deletion, then I am willing to give a new component a chance. I may try a few other things before I get the part but quite honestly right now am sick of dealing with it so I'll just use the headphones until I get the part so I enjoy the machine a bit.

[davemon50]

The good news
I received the new subwoofer in the mail, it was an original part, new, with the same model and mfg name on it. I took apart the laptop today and replaced it successfully (I even recorded a video for the whole process). No damage or mishaps, put it back together, and everything booted up just fine.

The bad news
The new part made zero difference. So it's either some other part buzzing, or it is definitely a software issue.


Does anyone else have any ideas?

[jdfrench3]

May sound strange but another post spoke of noise in their laptop and that it was not present when powered through the power brick. Simply unplug your laptop and see if the noise is still present.

Bye the way if the audio is good through your headphones then it's not going to be a software issue.

[JustinThyme]

Ive never been fond of the sound quality past the G751. Went into the toilet. Sennheiser HD 700 cans if private or Bose Soundlink III BT if not. Takes it to an acceptable level of sound quality.

[davemon50]

I do use headphones much of the time, but I usually have my laptop in an area with very little surface, and don't want to carry around extra stuff when I move it. Do you know of any good soundbar accessory that would work and be non-intrusive to the work environment?