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Different sound volume displays from Thinkpad and Vista
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 3:44 am
by netmask254
When press sound up/down buttons, there is a volume bar including volume value showing on screen. On my system, this volume is always the half of Windows volume value (Speakers: SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio). For example, when Thinkpad volume is 2, Windows volume is 4. I can adjust Windows volume to 3 and feel the difference with volume 2, while the Thinkpad display is still 1. I never encounter similar problem on Windows XP before.
Does anybody encounter this boring issue or know how to further debug it? Thanks a lot!
Windows Vista Enterprise SP2 on X61S
Re: Different sound volume displays from Thinkpad and Vista
Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 5:57 am
by Yacek
netmask254 wrote:When press sound up/down buttons, there is a volume bar including volume value showing on screen. On my system, this volume is always the half of Windows volume value (Speakers: SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio). For example, when Thinkpad volume is 2, Windows volume is 4. I can adjust Windows volume to 3 and feel the difference with volume 2, while the Thinkpad display is still 1. I never encounter similar problem on Windows XP before.
Does anybody encounter this boring issue or know how to further debug it? Thanks a lot!
Windows Vista Enterprise SP2 on X61S
Maybe it's due to that ThinkPad indicator is 0-50 scale, while Windows is 0-100% scale... that makes "double" counting Windows meter... ?
On my T61p actually the TP sound display shows 21, while master windows volume shows 42%
Re: Different sound volume displays from Thinkpad and Vista
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 10:24 am
by crashnburn
Can this be used to food Thinkpad into AMPLIFYING the sound more..than normal .. crappy T speakers?
I am guessing this is due to some registry / setting mismatch?