ACER Swift Go 14 - Left Speaker Has Scratchy/Crackly/Static Audio

lovelyaerolite

Hello everyone! My Swift Go 14 sometimes has an issue with the left speaker, where the audio comes out as scratchy/crackly/static. Usually restarting the laptop gets rid of the issue, but sometimes it doesn't. I don't have this issue on the right speaker or when using headphones, so I assume the problem is with the built-in left speaker. I would really like to resolve this problem but I'm not sure how. My driver is up to date so I don't think that's the issue. Should I try spraying some compressed air into the bottom grates? Or might this require a solution where I have to open up the bottom of the laptop? I'm not comfortable with doing those kinds of repairs myself, so would I have to turn it into the manufacturer to fix?

Thank you very much!

Puraw

Hi lovelyaerolite,

When you plug in a wired headset while booting and you don't notice that cracking sound on the left channel you have a bad internal speaker connection (pinched cable) or the left speaker is bad and needs to be replaced. These speakers are cheap and very easy to replace (10 minutes DIY job). If the headset has the same issue you have to uninstall the Realtek audio driver with DDU in Safe Mode using the "Clean and restart" option in DDU, reboot and Windows will reinstall the driver, do not reinstall the driver yourself.