Oh, and thank you Tempting.... I do go to the Tosbhiba support page now and
again for advice. I think our friend Dave has helped me all I need on this
issue.... uh.... know anything about a vista machine bootup problems where it
takes me first to the black screen, DOS type options of using a Ramdisk, or
Safe mode or "start in a previous version of Windows"? It starts in Window
Boot Manager......

But I can look here under startup or boot problems. That's a different
topic.... thanks!

"tempting2taanzaa" wrote:

"
wrote in message
...
Thanks for some direction.... I haven't been able to find this much help
anywhere Dave. I'm not too much of a geek so could you steer me in the
right
direction to update my audio drivers? Where would I find them? In the
device
manager? And if so would it be under a plug and play USB? I'm lost here.

Thanks a billion Dave (you know what they say... a billion here and a
billion there, pretty soon your talking real thanks) LOL

(snip)

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If you look at the Toshiba support site there is a load of downloads and
support bulletins that are laptop model specific and/or O/S specific. They
are dated and contain information about why the updates/upgrades are
available and what problems/bugs they address.

You're welcome. I'm glad you got it working right.


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wrote in message
news
Thanks Dave! It seems to have worked. I did the uninstall in device
manager
and the machine automatically took my word for it and didn't argue with me
(as it always has in the past when I try something new) LOL.

So after it uninstalled and found and installed the new drivers on its
own,
I did a restart and when I came back and looked at the Task Manager list
of
processes I had to scroll down to the bottom of the list because even
though
I was running a video, it was hardly using any resources. The audio
noise/screeching is gone and the sound is back to where it should be. It's
even better I think.

Now I have that annoyance out of the way and I can work on my boot
problem.
I want to thank you for the help. Oh.... my boot problem you ask? Uh.... I
wouldn't want to bother you again..... LOL I'll figure it out on my own
I
hope.

Thanks for the good samaritan help friend..... Dan

"Dave" wrote:

You can go to Start - Control Panel - Device Manager
under "Sound, Video and Game controllers", it should list your audio
driver
(something like Conexant AC-Link, or Realtek)
Write down what it shows.

If you want, you can delete the driver, and have Vista try to reinstall
it.
click on the driver listed, and press the Delete key and confirm the
delete.
Then click on Action - Scan for hardware changes
Vista should look for and install the audio driver.
If it doesn't find it, or installs the incorrect one, you'll have to go
to
the Toshiba website and look for the audio driver for your model.
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...port&sn=false#


They also have a user forum on the Toshiba site that could help you
better
that I can.

http://laptopforums.toshiba.com/tshb...oard.id=brd_av


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wrote in message
...
Thanks for some direction.... I haven't been able to find this much
help
anywhere Dave. I'm not too much of a geek so could you steer me in the
right
direction to update my audio drivers? Where would I find them? In the
device
manager? And if so would it be under a plug and play USB? I'm lost
here.

Thanks a billion Dave (you know what they say... a billion here and a
billion there, pretty soon your talking real thanks) LOL

"Dave" wrote:

Well, I don't know about memory leaks, but I'd try to update the audio
driver, to see if that would help.


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wrote in message
news I'm not sure, Dave, what difference it will make to describe my
system
if
it's just one of those things that happen with audiodg. But I have
an
AMD
dual-core 32-bit processor, 3 Gigs memory, 200 GB hard drive at 5400
RPM.
It's a laptop, Toshiba and it didn't make all the strange
screeching,
jumbled
and static noises, cutting out and everthing until lately. The
audiodg
process gets as high as 300,000 bytes and takes up as much as 80% of
my
memory. And it's annoying as heck.

I scoured the internet, Microsoft support too, but found nothing up
till I
landed here. The Microsoft support said "Sorry Charlie, you must go
to
the
manufacturer for help." The manufacturer, Toshiba, is telling people
it's
not
a hardware problem so that's that. And unless I misread what has
been
said
here, the best thing to do is not to play music at all.

It's worst when I try to do videos on youtube, but then It's not
always
happening. But doing a restart has not made a difference it seems.
It
may
bring down the memory in bytes but the percentage is still way up
there
and
the sound is usually not better.

Got any ideas? I've seen people talk about "leaks" but I don't know
what
that means.

Thanks though for replying.....
Dan

"Dave" wrote:

Perhaps you should back up a bit, and explain your problem a bit
more..
What program are you using to play music?
System specs, etc.

I just opened Windows Media Player and started to play a list of
mp3
files.
My CPU usage went up as high as 90 %, but the music sounds just
fine.
Using Process Explorer, I saw that wmplayer was using 30-40%, and
searchindexer was using 40-50%.
After the indexer stopped, the CPU usage dropped to less than 20%,
with
wmplayer using less than 1 %.
audiodg uses less than 1 %.



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wrote in
message
...
So there is no alternative to having terrible sound on my machine
because
Audiodg hogs the memory? If I want to listen to my music I have
to
do
it
outside Windows? I have Vista Home Premium and I want my money
back!
Show
me
to the door please!

"evb60" wrote:


The audiodg proces is indeed a system proces, which is used
sound
processing on your machine. More about the proces can be read in
this
blog post:
http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/...diodg-exe.aspx

The solution to the CPU problem has been to me to disable the
service
in computer management at reboot, so it wouldn't start at system
bootup.
Then, when I'm back in windows, I just re-enable it. At that
point
in
time, it won't eat your CPU anymore.

I have no exact explanation to why it eats that much cpu, but I
expect
it to be a driver incompatibility. Porbably the Realtek AC97 (in
my
case) drivers aren't reacting the way audiodg expects them to
do.


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HemanC;2827076 Wrote:
right click on the speaker icon at the bottom right.
select Playback Devices
highlight the icon with the green check mark
click Properties
click the Advanced tap
uncheck Enable audio enhancements

Not sure if that will lower the sound quailty but at least my lowly P4
2.66Ghz doesn't skip anymore. Now audiodg.exe run less than 5% of the
CPU time.

heyhey HemanC i did what you said and the audiodg.exe dosent eat up
much of my CPU anymore
but now my vent and msn voicecalls dont get any sound from it is there
anyway to fix it?

many thx


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