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Realtek AC'97 issue
Name: antonio1978 Date: June 18, 2007 at 20:43:34 Pacific OS: XP Professional 2002 SP2 CPU/Ram: 768 Product: Intel Pentium 4 2.00Ghz
Comment:
Hi,
I just bought a new HDD yesterday for my older pc and installed my OS and motherboard drivers from Gigabyte.com and sound card drivers from Realtek site. I had no issues and heard my sound come on and all. Where things started to possibly go wrong is when i installed Service Pack 2 as my cd comes with SP1 when i restarted the sound was still working and had installed the new Direct x 9.0C and all was fine. After a couple of reboots the sound dissapeared. I checked my drivers, sound display everything. i uninstalled and reinstalled the sound drivers from the newer drivers and even from the original motherboard cd after uninstalling the new ones of course, still.. nothing. I have even used Driver Cleaner to clean any Realtek drivers on my pc just incase of a conflict. I also uninstalled SP2 just incase and tried reinstalling the drivers again and still the volume controll is greyed out. I go into Control Panel and click on Sound and Devices and all has ben greyed out as well.
What i get in device manager is the error in Multimedia COntroller however in the Sound, Video and Game Controller menu the Realtek AC'97 Audio is installed and 'working properly'.
In my task bar it shows the Sound Effect icon but when clicking on it, no box appears as it did yesterday.
Name: pgckkwvdzm Date: June 18, 2007 at 20:51:26 Pacific
Reply:
Is this a sound card or onboard sound?
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Response Number 2
Name: antonio1978 Date: June 18, 2007 at 21:13:49 Pacific
Reply:
Hi pgckkwvdzm, it's onboard. I am buying a new pc soon but still keeping my old one so the onboard sound card is on a Gigabyte GA-8SR533 series, 645 chipset
~~~angelus~~~
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Response Number 3
Name: pgckkwvdzm Date: June 19, 2007 at 02:33:49 Pacific
Reply:
Just use the drivers on the mobo CD.
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Response Number 4
Name: pgckkwvdzm Date: June 21, 2007 at 15:57:41 Pacific
Summary: Whenever I try and load my control panel, I get an error message, caused by the Realtek AC'97 Audio driver. I tried uninstalling the driver but then next time I turned on my computer a found new har...
Summary: I'm using a Km2m combo motherboard with a on-board Realtek AC'97 audio chip, and today when i started u and then p my computer the sound was gone. Now the sound card isn't working at all. I unistalled...
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