New Build, No audio

DieTheVillian

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Specs:
Intel 4670k
MSI z87-g45
Gigabyte GTX 770 OC
Samsung EVO 840 SSD
Seagate 1TB barracuda
Corsair h100i
EVGA 750w semi modular PSU
Cooler Master Storm Troopper Case
Crucial Ballistix XT 8GB RAM
Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Problem:
All drivers installed and on-board HD audio is Realtek ALC1150, when booting to desktop, volume icon in system try shows Red 'X' icon, Hovering over that says 'The Audio Service is not running.' if i click that it attempts to 'fix the problem' and the X goes away, i can then view all my HD audio ports in my Realtek HD Audio Manager, if i attempt to play ANY sound (Pandora, system sounds, audio manager tests, anything) the audio manager will say 'reloading audio devices', the screen goes blank, and i get the red x again, I have installed the newest drivers from MSI, i have downgraded drivers, i have gone from bios 1.5 to 1.6 to an experimental build 1.71b (which, incidentally has lengthened my boot time by about 100%). I am hoping i done have to RMA this board but i am at my whits end, i am competent with Computers, i have a A.S. in Computer Science, technical certificates in Software engineering, and i work as a database admin, but with all my google-foo, i can't seem to come up with a fix, If any of you guys have a suggestion, fix, or point me in the direction of something that gets this working, i would be in your debt. Thanks in advance.
 

person12345

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I have exactly the same issue:
Z87 GD45 Mobo. Little red cross on the speaker icon when Realtek 1150 driver installed. The sound will work if you uninstall that realtec driver and allow windows to give you a generic audio driver but I realy want the Realtek High Definition audio drivers, but they just don't want to work!
 

person12345

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PROBLEM SOLVED (for me)

Spent about 12hours straight on this problem! hopefully this will solve the problem for a few people:

The problem is the drivers, latest realtek drivers don't work, latest drivers from MSI don't work. You need to get hold of the driver 6.0.1.6959

Its on softpedia. Youll find a weird CAB driver file 6.0.1.6959
> uninstall reatek from control panel add remove programs
> Download that 6.0.1.6959 cab file.
> Use WinRAR to extract the CAB contents
> Then goto your devise manager, under AUDIO
> click on each item > update driver > manual > point it to the extracted cab folder

That solved it for me...
Hope that helps...
Good luck