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Ubuntu Audio works | Win7 Audio doesn't

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  • Windows 7
  • Audio
  • Hard Drives
  • Ubuntu
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August 25, 2014 7:36:16 PM

So I recently installed ubuntu 14.04 on 1 hard drive and windows 7 ult on another. In ubuntu, my headphones and speakers work just fine (indication it's not a hardware issue) but in windows 7 something isn't right. Instead of the normal Digitial Audio (HDMI), speaker, headphone option, I only have 5 Digital Audio (pictured).

I've read elsewhere that ubuntu messes with the windows driver and makes it unreadable, but I've taken the ubuntu hdd out of the computer and uninstall/reinstalled drivers a few times to no avail.

Any thoughts or threads you've found (I've searched a few days before posting) I'd love to hear/see them.

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August 25, 2014 10:12:56 PM

tyflikw said:
I've read elsewhere that ubuntu messes with the windows driver and makes it unreadable


No this never happens.

How should any linux user know what crazy things windows does?? But it looks like you have HDMI output as your default output device... the problem is probalbly that either you do not have correct windows driver installed for your device or windows is outputting audio to wrong device...
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August 26, 2014 6:31:25 AM

I've thought the same thing. perhaps it is time to go back to searching for drivers.
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August 27, 2014 2:14:01 PM

Problem was with my motherboard. Ubuntu correctly interpreted the audio signals but Win7 did not. I updated my audio driver from ASRock's (my motherboard page) after a clean win7 install and it now works. Not sure why it didn't work the first time. Something between clean install and driver update did the trick.
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