Boot sound checkbox

[horvatkm]

Rules

• I made myself familiar with the Readme, FAQ and Troubleshooting.
• I understand that, if insufficient information or no app logs will be provided, my issue will be closed without an answer.

What's wrong?

Hi,
I've noticed small issue related to Boot sound checkbox in Extra Settings. After closing and reopening Extra Settings dialog, the checkbox is always off, no matter whether it was checked or not previously. But still, the checkbox kind of works. To turn boot sound on, I've to check it once. To turn boot sound off, I've to check it twice.

In Ghelper.log a new message is added each time I click the Boot Sound checkbox.

5/6/2024 4:39:43 PM: BootSound = 1 : OK
5/6/2024 4:39:44 PM: BootSound = 0 : OK

When opening Extra Settings dialog, a bit strange message is being logged into Ghelper.log regarding missing atiadlxx.dll, since my laptop has NVidia GPU.
5/6/2024 4:39:55 PM: Cores: 0x0806
5/6/2024 4:39:55 PM: CoresMax: 0x0806
5/6/2024 4:39:55 PM: Unable to load DLL 'atiadlxx.dll' or one of its dependencies: The specified module could not be found. (0x8007007E)
5/6/2024 4:39:55 PM: Hibernate after 420

How to reproduce the bug?

1. Open Extra Settings
2. Check Boot Sound
3. Close Extra Settings
4. Open Extra Settings and see that Boot sound is unchecked, even though it was checked before closing

Logs

log.txt

Device and Model

ASUS TUF Gaming F15 FX507ZV4

Additional information.

No response

Armoury Crate

Uninstalled

Asus Services

None

Version

0.165

OS

Windows 10 21H2

[seerge]

@horvatkm hello,

Currently app reads status of the boot sound from corresponding endpoint in asus driver / firmware every time you open Extra. It's intentional, so app always show actual status.

If checkbox is unchecked (i.e. OFF) every time you open it, it means that by some reason firmware reports it as OFF . It could be simply bugged firmware on your specific model.

You can try to run following command in powershell as admin , it should output checkbox status + 65536 (so 65536 for OFF and 65537 for ON)

Invoke-CimMethod (Get-CimInstance -Namespace root/wmi -ClassName AsusAtkWmi_WMNB) -MethodName DSTS -Arguments @{Device_ID= 0x00130022;}

Does checkbox change status if you would reboot ?

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When opening Extra Settings dialog, a bit strange message is being logged into Ghelper.log regarding missing atiadlxx.dll, since my laptop has NVidia GPU.

This is unrelated :) Extra settings also has a checkbox for AMD Varibright setting, so app checks if you have AMD card for that. And just logs the fact that it's not . So it's normal.

[horvatkm]

Checkbox doesn't change status after reboot, it's still off.

The command "Invoke-CimMethod (Get-CimIn ... " is always returning value 4294967294, which is FFFFFFFE in hex.

PS C:\Windows\system32> Invoke-CimMethod (Get-CimInstance -Namespace root/wmi -ClassName AsusAtkWmi_WMNB) -MethodName DSTS -Arguments @{Device_ID= 0x00130022;}

device_status ReturnValue PSComputerName
------------- ----------- --------------
   4294967294        True

[seerge]

@horvatkm ah, FFFFFFFE explains it. So in your case it seem to report nothing.

So unfortunately it's not possible to show actual state of the Boost Sound flag.

[horvatkm]

I don't mind not seeing actual state of the Boost Sound flag. I'm just reporting an issue I've encountered, so that others are not confused by strange sound, which laptop makes on boot, even though Boost Sound checkbox indicates, that it's disabled. Like I was for a while.

I guess there are a few ways how to deal with this issue.

• since setting the value works fine, maybe Extra dialog could show two buttons instead of checkbox when querying AsusACPI.BootSound returns 0xFFFFFFFE
• or you could simply document the issue in FAQ

Thanks for great app and quick response.

[seerge]

@horvatkm I have better idea.

If boot sound is not readable, app can at least save last set value in own config, to display it properly.

Try this build. By default (if it can't read it and there is no config entry yet) - it will assume boot sound is OFF (i.e. it's 0)

GHelper.zip

[horvatkm]

Thanks, works perfectly.