Its okay, I have a gigantic external Edifier that rattles my table whenever it goes BOOMZ

hello studio owner.. i wanna ask something about formatting my friend studio 1555. my friend want to upgrade his laptop to win 7 64-bit.. can i install the os as usually?mean put in the cd, n run as usual.. or to change a little bit setting in bios??

The subwoofer on my 1558 has absolutely no sound as well.

I updated to the latest drivers too but still no difference in terms of sound quality.

BTW, does anyone know how SRS Premium Sound is reflected in the Dell Studios ?

Having read the description at their website, I'm beginning to doubt if this was a marketing ploy by Dell as the sound quality on my studio is just marginally better than on my older Compaq :

http://www.srslabs.com/premiumsound/sound.html

Also, having read the Studio manual, the laptop is supposed to come bundled with 4 speakers and 1 woofer. Has anyone managed to successfully test all speakers ?

When I tried the Speaker Setup, the only audio that came out was from my L and R speakers.

Anyone having the same problem ?

This post has been edited by axepert: Apr 5 2010, 11:13 AM

wat i heard is u need to purchase the X-fi series audio upgrade only got subwoofer...

Found the fix to my problem !

Initially I called Dell support to inform them about this problem, but the support person said that I had to manually install the Soundblaster drivers as 'occasionally' it could have been left out from installation from the factory. I told her that mine was already installed, but she said I should re-run the installation CD again.

Doubting her, I fiddled around abit and found SRS audio had to be manually enabled (its disabled by default). Once turning it on and killing off all the mids/treble, I could hear the puny subwoofer warbling underneath. I had high hopes for this to be great sounding seeing how they marketed it with SRS premier sound, subwoofer, surround sound etc, but boy am I disappointed.

Anyway, issue resolved, and now I probably have to think about getting myself a separate set of speakers now ... sigh ..

can help me how to format this notebook.. urgent.. :|

Any experience in formatting laptop? Please make sure you have the windows disc and driver disc with you before you start formatting.

Basically formatting laptop is quite simple. Insert the windows disc and reboot your laptop. When the bios is loading, press F12 or F8 to enter boot option. From there, press boot from DVD rom and basically it is straight forward from there. After that you will come to the option of choosing which partition that you wish to install the windows. Normally the first partition is the partition to install the windows. You must format the partition before you install the windows there. After this the process is just straight forward.

Once the windows is installed, insert the driver disc and start installing the required driver. There is few unnecessary software in the driver disc so you don't need to install it all. Just install important driver such as display, mmc slot reader and etc.

Basically this is the simple, very very simple guide. I don't know you will lost or not. Make sure you know someone who can help you when you lost during formatting. Try at your own risk and back up all your files before formatting.

ha.. simple.. just like formatting a normal pc.. i thought this lappy have sata lock that i have to set the sata bios first before formatting.. because this laptop preloaded with win 7 hp 32-bit.. my friend want to install win 7 ultimate 64-bit.. i think installing it will not have problem for this laptop??

This post has been edited by faiz2036: Apr 6 2010, 04:17 PM

Oo... discussed subwoofer?? I personally feels that my s1555 speaker rocks. U can't compare them with any other laptop with just 2.0 sound. I can feel the bass very truly. Whenever i play a song, and place my palm on the keyboard, the vibration is very true. Compared to acer 4937G(old model, with dolby home theater?? somethig like that) and compaq cq-40(with 'altec lansing')... s1555 easily kick them off!!! And...

@whiteangel
actually before this, there's bass boost and low frequency protection for my 1555... u can get to it through start-->type sound-->then u can get into those settings. in enhancement page under speakers' properties, there's bass boost and low frequency protection where windows will not play sound lower than certain frequency.
THIS IS BEFORE I REINSTALL IDT audio driver...
After i install, bass boost and low level frequency protection option can only be seen in headphone properties page. Maybe that is the problem. Personally, i think s1555 speaker is nice, compared to other laptops. and compared to some small 2.0 speakers too... for a laptop, i think that the SQ is just nice. don't expect too much from it. haha

im having problem with my speaker..
i can't maximize my volume...
i only can volume it up to half of the bar @ full volume...
if i increase more than half it will "pecah"...
i have call dell and the technician already change my speaker...
but it doesn't work....the sound still 'pecah'...
do anyone know how to fix it @ anyone that having same problem with me??
can anyone share something??

hey guys
my studio 1555 speakers have some problem
the right speaker will has "buzz" sound when i play music, espeically piano type music, which is high frequency
i bought it last year july
can i call dell to check it ?

No...cant c the subwoofer!!^^
Bcos the subwoofer is actually located at the bottom of the laptop( near to ram ther ).
when u playing song with full blast, u can actually feel some "wind" pumping out from ther.
the keyboard ther only got 2 small stereo speaker!

rayz1031,

I'm going to get a Cooler Master Notepal Infinite with 4 Port USB as you suggested. There's this new one with 4 port usb, damn fitting for me ;D

As I have too many stuff that needs usb ports.

Razer mouse
Edifier woofers+speakers
HP Printer
Maxtor external drive

sometimes wanna put 1 or 2 pendrives... then cooling fan... ahh! too much, too much!

I ordered a Dell Studio 15 last week..and now I found out about the Vostro 3700..better specs for a cheaper price!!

Can someone please enlighten me by telling me the advantages of Studio compared to Vostro?

I wonder if its possible to cancel my order and make a new one lol..

Just cancel your order and proceed with Vostro. It won't cost you anything to cancel the order but expect the shipping of Vostro to be later .

If the Vostro you interested is running on nVidia8600Gt, I would suggest you to stick with Studio 15.

@Grimm: that cooler is cun cun for 15' laptop. Lucky that you get the 4 port instead of 3 port usb since you got so many things to run with usb.

This post has been edited by rayz1031: Apr 12 2010, 01:32 AM

Its running on 330M

i am joining soon ^^

isit something to do with ur equalizer??? that day i also thought i "terpecah" the speaker but actually i forgot to change back the equalizer after using my headphone...

well vostro has better graphic card... and bigger screen

but bigger doesnt mean better, studio 15 screen is said to be sharper. dats all that it has of an advantage, but vostro screen is anti-glare which might be really useful in sunny situations hehe

how u change the setting of equalizer? i cant find it in sound setting
i have used headphone tat time but i didnt change any setting

This post has been edited by Xehanort: Apr 13 2010, 10:19 AM