Realtek HD Audio Manager...can't open program!

rome3831

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I cannot for the life of me get the Realtek HD Audio Manager to open. I just purchased a brand new pair of Astro A50's and I'm trying to get them configured on my laptop. I'm currently running a Sony Vaio VPCSA2FGX.

I've been reading over very similar products for the last few hours and nothing on the forums have worked. I've tried just about everything...uninstalling/installing the most recent drivers, looking for the .exe program in the Realtek folder (not there), looking for it in the control panel, disabling the sound card and restarting my computer, opening up the BIOS to try and enable the sound card option (not on option on my motherboard), just about everything...to no avail. I'm growing increasingly frustrated and I do not have the original Realtek CD with the drivers which I know has worked for some users. I've also opened up the task manager, looked up the start-up programs....the Realtek Audio manager program is there, but can never actually be opened.

Can anybody out there point me in the right direction?
 

Hjgrove

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Hi there,
Ive had the exact issue as you, you just need to get it to boot with windows
So drag the program link into the start up folder and reboot that will make it work.
Figured this out a while back.
 

Hjgrove

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Ok, that's fine follow these steps:
Open "My computer"
Then at the top search bar type this is:
C:\Users\TYPE YOUR PROFILE NAME HERE\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
You can find your profile name by going to start and look at the top right corner.
After that locate the program folder
For example
Go on to task manager and show file location (Like you already have)
After this look for the program application (Should have the program logo on)
And now drag that into the other folder we had open last time.
 

rome3831

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The problem with that is even if I look into the Realtek Audio Manager folder located in the program files, no .exe program file exists...the only relevant file I can find is the RAVBg64 and RAVCpl64 application files in the HDA folder of the Realtek folder.