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USB-Audio Driver (w. BOSE Companion 5)
I have an HP Blackbird with a Bose Companion 5 USB sound system, and although
the speakers work well, the microphone does not work when plugged in through the Bose system. In fact, the Bose audio input device does not show up under "Recording" when I go to the "Manage Audio Devices" window, although the speakers do show up under "Playback". My drivers for Bose are up to date, and all my Windows updates are installed. Any ideas? "Paulo" wrote: Hi Guys, I have done some 'in deep' test , and .... the bose hardware system was faulty , so I had to return them to manufacturer .... they just work for a couple of hours ..even for Windows XP ( I have done some test on mu professional laptop ...) .. So this this is It for me ... Will come back when they will come back ... Peter ... "snowcrash" wrote: Hi, reviving this as it seems to be the best forum for my query. I'm planning on getting a Bose Companion 5 but have some MAJOR reservations given the problems listed above. The only reason I've NOT completely dropped the idea is because the USB problem above seems to be on PCs running Vista 64bit. As I'm running Vista Home Premium 32bit, does that mean this should not be an issue, ie is it fully compatible under Vista 32bit? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I'm very impressed with the speakers, but don't want to get them if they're gonna be so incompatible with Vista.... -- snowcrash |
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USB-Audio Driver (w. BOSE Companion 5)
I confirm the same or similar problem happening using Bose Companion 5 USB
speakers on Vista-SP1 x86 32bit edition. The problem is best described as intermittent stuttering, from mostly minor but always present, to sometimes strong 'dropouts', a few times loosing the USB connection alltogether. Sounds a bit like my tapedeck sounded many years ago with a dirty tape. I tried to find any offending driver or anything that could interfere with the audio driver to no avail. The Vista installation is clean and up-to-date w. regard Microsoft updates. Disabled the built-in AC97 soundchip in the Bios, removed all sound related drivers. Removed all special codecs. The speakers are connected directly to a USB 2.0 port without a hub. I then tried the Companion 5 speakers under Windows-XP SP2 and Ubuntu Linux on the same PC hardware (multiboot). Under both these Operating Systems the Companion 5 speakers perform flawless USB audio, no installation problems of any kind, no stuttering of any kind, just very perfect sound. Next I tried an external Soundblaster Audigy 2 NX USB card on Vista, connecting it with stereo cable to the line input on the Bose speakers. No stuttering whatsoever occured. Only this way you loose the 5.1 audio, and it is not so nice looking, since the line input is on the desktop volume control hockey puck. So the Audigy USB card was able to do good non stuttering USB audio on Vista! As far as I can tell the stuttering really is a Vista / Bose specific USB Audio driver problem. It seems that the API for the USB audio driver has changed slightly under Vista as compared to XP, and the driver must actively request / configure realtime performance from the MSWMM subsystem. Hoping Bose or Microsoft will release a USB audio driver fix very soon now. "snowcrash" wrote: Hi, reviving this as it seems to be the best forum for my query. I'm planning on getting a Bose Companion 5 but have some MAJOR reservations given the problems listed above. The only reason I've NOT completely dropped the idea is because the USB problem above seems to be on PCs running Vista 64bit. As I'm running Vista Home Premium 32bit, does that mean this should not be an issue, ie is it fully compatible under Vista 32bit? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I'm very impressed with the speakers, but don't want to get them if they're gonna be so incompatible with Vista.... -- snowcrash |
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USB-Audio Driver (w. BOSE Companion 5)
Hi guys i might have a solution for the problem you are having with usb sound i have a roland edirol external sound card and nobody could help me get to work acer or roland it would pop and crackle all the time so i got desperate i plugged in a self powered usb hub just the cheap kind and my problem went away i think you should try it i think it worked by forcing the computor to communicate with the device in a different way i hope this helps but only thing dont plug anything else in with the hub at the same time could cause latency -- denvermorgan2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ denvermorgan2000's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/denvermorgan2000.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-music-video/929358.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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USB-Audio Driver (w. BOSE Companion 5)
I have the same trouble with Bose Companion 5's and Vista 64bit. At random, Vista just drops my speakers and doesn't recognize them as a viable hardware. I have to reboot as restarting doesn't seem to work. Neither does unplugging and replugging the speakers. I happen to have a cheap USB hub, so I plugged them in there as Denvermorgan suggested. I'll see how long it takes before Vista drops them again. Thanks for the suggestion. -- rdpzjr |
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USB-Audio Driver (w. BOSE Companion 5)
Try to set the performance on the system to either "performance" or
"powersave", using the default automatic setup may cause the problem ! -- regards Patrik S -swe- "rdpzjr" wrote: I have the same trouble with Bose Companion 5's and Vista 64bit. At random, Vista just drops my speakers and doesn't recognize them as a viable hardware. I have to reboot as restarting doesn't seem to work. Neither does unplugging and replugging the speakers. I happen to have a cheap USB hub, so I plugged them in there as Denvermorgan suggested. I'll see how long it takes before Vista drops them again. Thanks for the suggestion. -- rdpzjr |
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USB-Audio Driver (w. BOSE Companion 5)
With Vista I have been getting stuttering as well, it would be very annoying but now with Windows 7 I get no sound.. no driver found code 43. Has anyone got an update on a driver? -- magnitrauz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ magnitrauz's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/153307.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-music-video/929358.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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USB-Audio Driver (w. BOSE Companion 5)
Registered here to post the solution! If you get code 43 try updating drivers manually. You may use this if you're on Win7 x64 (put the contents of the folder Bose USB Audio to Windows/system32 folder): http://narod.ru/disk/15399231000/Bos...ivers.rar.html If these files doesn't help (in case you're on a different OS), try plugging your Companion 5 to another computer which runs on the same OS, then go to Devices & Printers - Bose USB Audio - open properties. In the second tab check files for drivers for each device. Basically, you need to copy them to your computer. -- Elix ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Elix's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/158343.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-music-video/929358.htm http://forums.techarena.in |
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