No sound, faulty drivers?

eXcelletrix · Apr 3, 2014

Hey guys! First, sorry for my grammar and misspelling, English isn't my native language. I've spent the whole night trying to resolve this issue. One of my hard drives died, I replaced it with my older and smaller one from an old PC, so I had to update all the drivers from scratch. It auto installed High Definition Audio sound driver which doesnt produce any sound, so I've done some research and for my motherboard I'm supposed to use VIA High Definition Audio driver. Found it, installed, still no result. I've tried many different things and suggestions I've found on google, such as installing Vista x64 drivers, nothing helped.
At first with the automatic driver updates I couldn't get to pick headphones as an option, only had that SPDIF thingy, then I got the VIA driver and I now see both speakers and headphones with the program running in tray. When play some music or just test, I get signals but no sound at all. Sometimes when rebooting I just get some very little static noise. Tried both front and back jacks..
I've went into bios and changed the onboard audio thingy, can't remember the name sorry, from auto to enabled, back and forth, so any suggestion is appreciated as I'm exhausted and tired of browsing.

My OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Motherboard: ASRock Phenom II A790GMH/128M (AM+2 Socket I believe)

If more info is required, please ask for it as I'm not some PC genius. (obviously)

brarboy · Apr 3, 2014

check out this thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2036994/audio-driver-updated-headphones.html
See if you have Realtek audio manager installed in the tray.
And what motherboard are you using?

eXcelletrix · Apr 3, 2014

"Motherboard: ASRock Phenom II A790GMH/128M (AM+2 Socket I believe)"
I will check the link You gave me now, be right back.

eXcelletrix · Apr 3, 2014

Also one more thing, even if I try to manually update my sound driver, my PC will still auto update to High Definition Audio and override the one I installed, leaving it with a yellow exclamation mark.

stefsom · Apr 3, 2014

hi,
your motherboard is using VIA® VT1708S Audio Codec.
check http://download.viatech.com/en/support/driversSelect.jsp

eXcelletrix · Apr 3, 2014

I'm downloading it now. But how should I apply it? Do I unninstal my previous drivers first or do I just run the new ones? Because as I mentioned earlier, some versions I've tried installing have been "overrided" by the automatic one that gets installed whenever I restart my PC.

stefsom · Apr 3, 2014

click on update driver->browse my computer->let me pick from a list....->have disk->select the downloaded unzipped drivers.

eXcelletrix · Apr 3, 2014

Thanks! Will get back to You with results when this slow download finishes... Seems they limited the down speed to 10ish kbps. ^^

eXcelletrix · Apr 3, 2014

Still no luck.

brarboy · Apr 3, 2014

in motherboard, make sure you are using green port to connect the speakers. What channel are you using like 2.1 or what?
Open VIA deck from the tray click on green port and what are the option you see there?

eXcelletrix · Apr 3, 2014

I've uninstalled everything again, so yeah, can't check the via thing now, will try to reinstall it later again. Yes I'm using the same green port, havent unplugged headphones, just replaced my hdd.

eXcelletrix · Apr 3, 2014

Still no solution so far. I've tried hundreds of different drivers.

eXcelletrix · Apr 3, 2014

Tried the newest drivers from via hd audio, now I only see Digital Audio (S/PDIF) in the mixer, no headphones or speakers...

eXcelletrix · Apr 3, 2014

I found this info:"- 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (VIA® VT1708S Audio Codec)"
I have every single compatible driver that exists now, tried every single one and it just won't work.

eXcelletrix · Apr 3, 2014

Also my hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_1106&DEV_0397&SUBSYS_18490397&REV_1000

brarboy · Apr 3, 2014

if you have found the right drivers for your motherboard, go to system tray and right click on the speaker icon. Select playback devices. Make sure you have selected Speakers. Right click on it select Test. Can you hear?

eXcelletrix · Apr 4, 2014

There's no speakers or headphones, just the S/PDIF. Going to reinstall my OS tomorrow and just use win7 instead ultimate.

brarboy · Apr 4, 2014

Look at this thread and follow the guide for enabling your speakers.
http://www.itechtalk.com/thread4039.html

eXcelletrix · Apr 5, 2014

I did that way back. There were no other devices besides the S/PDIF one, not even hidden ones. Just refreshed my OS with Win7 non Ultimate, works like a charm, won't change it ever again.
Thanks for spending time trying to help me and the suggestions mate, appreciated.

brarboy · Apr 6, 2014

eXcelletrix :

glad you figured it out

Good luck.

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