Windows 7 Ultimate SOund Problems On Acer Aspire 4530  

I have an Acer Aspire 4530 Notebook. And once I upgraded to 7 Ive noticed problems with the sound. I have the latest windows 7 Ultimate Drivers 64 Bit for the built in realtek card from the acer website.

This is my problem. Sound works fine. Then When I go to adjust the volume either from the bottom right icon or the dial on the front of the laptop, (Sometimes this happens its not a 100% thing which Is weird) the sound just stops. There are no error messages and or anything you just cant hear anything. And this only happens sometimes. To get it to work again I have to restart a few times or completely power it off.

Anyone have any idea what this is?

Thanks in Advance.

Acer has a new BIOS version for your Notebook on thier support site, the date on the update is 11-17-09. It doesn't say anywhere that I could find just what that update was supposed to fix, so I am not sure if it would help you or not. Flashing a BIOS can be a tricky thing though, you might want to read up a bit if you have never actually done it before. You might try giving Acer support a call and see if they can give you more info on just what that BIOS update fixed before you try anything.

Alright thanks, Yea I hear you can like permanently ruin your pc if you mess up on a bios update so I hope thats not the problem lol.

BIOS updates are a lot more reliable than they used to be, as long as you don't loose power during the update, they are fairly safe. Still I would not recomend doing one unless this update had something to do with your sound problem or a critical motherboard issue. Have you tried uninstalling and resinstalling the driver?

Yea updating the bios didn't fix it =(

Yea I Uninstalled, redownloaded the driver to make sure it was the correct one then reinstalled and the same problem persists.

Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of experience with 64 bit, I decided to stay with 32 because of all of the problems I have read about 64 bit software, there seem to be a lot of incompatability issues. You might take a look around on Start64, they have a forum dedicated to 64 bit software. You can find that web page HERE.

Thanks, I'll look into it =D