Hey,

So i have the same "crackling sound" problem that a lot of guys have if i instal creative software. With only realtek 2.45 drivers installed i dont get that crackling but i have other weird problem with hese, whenever i plug my headphones or external speakers i do get game/music7movie etc sounds at headphones/spakers but in some reason it wont mute laptops build in ones completely and still got windows sounds (msn message etc)from laptops own speakers. Does anyone have ideas? What realtek drivers i should use, and is there working creative software for this laptop that dont cause the crackling?

Also temps seems to be pretty high, getting over 100c for few sensors with hwinfo or gpu-z in bfbc2 😞

Then another question is about pixel policy. Tried to findsome info from asus site but didnt really find anything. I have had 4 pixel faults (1 bright + 3 black dead ones ) long time but those are on the edges so didint bother to rma, but yesterday i got 1 more black and that is in really bad spot almost in middle of the screen and is really disturbing. So my question really is that are those enough to get the panel replaced?