Re: {ot} no sound

Justisaur wrote:
I just upgraded my computer yesterday. I got an Asus P5GC-MX/1333
motherboard, and yes finally upgraded to XP, as the 8800 card I got
doesn't have any drivers for 2000.

CoV plays so much better now...

But I've got a wierd sound issue. The motherboard has a Realtek HD
audio built in. The drivers from asus appeared to install o.k. and I
have an orange sound icon which brings up a asus sound panel. I can
go in there an play a couple tests which play to my speakers o.k. The
problem is I can't get sound from anything else. If I go into the
sound and audio device properties it says there is no audio device.
There are no exclamation or question marks in my device manager. I
notice when I go into the Realtek High Definition Auido device it says
the manufacturer and date version etc are unknown.

I tried uninstalling it, but it says it can't unistall, the device may
be needed to start windows. I tried the update drivers button, but
nothing happens. I dl'd the latest driver from asus, but it had an
error trying to install. Rollback says there are no previous
drivers. I tried disabling it in the bios, and it went away, and I
was able to install the latest drivers, but that did nothing after
reenabling it. I also noticed all the other sound devices were still
there when I had it disabled.

I've tried looking around the net, found somthing that said to turn on
windows audio in services, but it was already and another which said
to make sure Plug and Play Software Enumerator was in the system
devices, and it was.

I'm almost ready to go buy a seperate audio card, but I'd rather get
the one on the mb working as it's obvious it's some sort of software
issue.

I had something very similar to this happen on a system I built for a friend recently, different mobo but the same kind of odd behavior. What I ended up doing was uninstalling everything associated with the sound device, drivers and all, then rebooting and letting Windows find new hardware. When it came up asking for drivers, I tried letting Windows use the basic native ones included by MS, but that only worked half-assed. I got sound, but not very good sound. So I removed it all and tried again, this time throwing in the hardware driver location to let Windows use that (I made sure to get the latest version, and put it on a directory on the hard drive first). That worked pretty well, but then I did a Windows update, and voila! It had a new update based on that hardware, had to select it manually (since it wasn't listed as a priority update). Once I rebooted, the sound worked flawlessly.

Not sure if that will work in your case, but it might be worth a try. Depending on how it's programmed, sometimes the driver installs on hardware can really throw itself in hard, and tear up alot of the Windows settings. By letting Windows grab and initiate using the drivers, you might have better luck.

CoinSpin
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