I am about to take a sledge hammer to this stupid thing.
(and no.... I won't take video, mainly cuz I won't have the satisfaction of audio playback )
Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4, Windows 8 Pro 64 bit, all latest updates/patches.
I had an ATI 7950 from MSI installed, and sound was running through that. Onboard had a yellow bang, but wasn't concerned - at first.
Now, I want to rerun my cables and not run video through the Yamaha HDMI switching receiver (I'd like to play Pandora from the iPhone when I'm messing around with the PC hardware, rebooting, etc.)
So now that yellow bang is important.
Disabled working HD Audio device, updated, removed, updated again the Realtek drivers. Pulled them from a Lenovo download, an HP download. Loaded up Revo software uninstaller. Loaded the Pro version.
I thought, OK maybe the ATI driver had a similar Realtek and there's a conflict. So I pulled that out, removed everything and loaded an NVidia 460 (768 version), default MS drivers, failed, then loaded up the latest drivers, failed.
I'm even trying, without success, to strip out the disabled audio device from registry, tried overwriting DLL with Realtek DLL in hopes of sparking something...
Definitely works fine in Linux though. Straight Live DVD of Ubuntu 12.10 picks it up fine, passes all tests in 5.1 and stereo.
WTF?
(and no.... I won't take video, mainly cuz I won't have the satisfaction of audio playback )
Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4, Windows 8 Pro 64 bit, all latest updates/patches.
I had an ATI 7950 from MSI installed, and sound was running through that. Onboard had a yellow bang, but wasn't concerned - at first.
Now, I want to rerun my cables and not run video through the Yamaha HDMI switching receiver (I'd like to play Pandora from the iPhone when I'm messing around with the PC hardware, rebooting, etc.)
So now that yellow bang is important.
Disabled working HD Audio device, updated, removed, updated again the Realtek drivers. Pulled them from a Lenovo download, an HP download. Loaded up Revo software uninstaller. Loaded the Pro version.
I thought, OK maybe the ATI driver had a similar Realtek and there's a conflict. So I pulled that out, removed everything and loaded an NVidia 460 (768 version), default MS drivers, failed, then loaded up the latest drivers, failed.
I'm even trying, without success, to strip out the disabled audio device from registry, tried overwriting DLL with Realtek DLL in hopes of sparking something...
Definitely works fine in Linux though. Straight Live DVD of Ubuntu 12.10 picks it up fine, passes all tests in 5.1 and stereo.
WTF?