How do i force nvidia hd audio installation?

Tylerr · Mar 14, 2016

I turned my computer off and unplugged it overnight because of a storm, when i turned it back on this morning my computer doesn't recognize the hdmi audio anymore.

i tried uninstalling the drivers multiple times and even used Display Driver Uninstaller in safe mode.

it's not installing the hd audio drivers anymore.

I see them unpacked in C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\361.75\Win8_WinVista_Win7_64\International\HDAudio

is there a way to manually install from there?

The only error for drivers i see in device manager is called "NVIDIA Enthusiasts Platform KDM" it says "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"

but i'm not sure if that has anything to do with the sound or not.

NEmpire95 · Mar 14, 2016

Are you sure it was nvidia HD Audio? You can always go to your motherboard's page and download audio drivers from there. Otherwise I would use: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

Make sure when you are installing these you select custom installation and choose to do a clean install. It will then give you options as to what you would like installed.

Tylerr · Mar 14, 2016

NEmpire95 :

yeah it was nvidia audio, 100% sure of that.

and i have my motherboard audios installed as well (realtek ones)

like i said this all worked yesterday.

cst1992 · Mar 14, 2016

NVIDIA audio doesn't have anything to do with motherboard audio. It's the audio device that comes with the card.

NEmpire95 · Mar 14, 2016

Okay I was just curious. I would still go to that link and do a custom install. See if that helps.

Tylerr · Mar 14, 2016

NEmpire95 :

i did that, that's where i got the drivers from.

Tbonius · Mar 14, 2016

Did you try, when you installed the drivers, to choose custom installation, and check the box "Perform a clean installation"?

Tylerr · Mar 14, 2016

Tbonius :

yes

Tbonius · Mar 14, 2016

Are you familiar with DDU, I think it's your next step.

Tbonius · Mar 14, 2016

Sorry, just re-read your post

Tbonius · Mar 14, 2016

I think the next thing I would try would be to use DDU to remove your drivers, shut down and unplug your computer, then physically remove the card. Re-install the card and install the drivers that have worked best for you. Some of the newer drivers have had problems.

Tylerr · Mar 14, 2016

Tbonius :

what does removing the card do? Also i tried using the same drivers i had before and then newer ones.

Tylerr · Mar 14, 2016

Sigh... Okay can someone please explain to me how exactly something like this works:

I plugged in my older harddrive (current one is an ssd that i cloned from that hd months ago)

hdmi audio works fine on it.

then i turn the computer off and boot to my ssd again.... theres the hdmi audio back like nothing happened.

???

Tylerr · Mar 15, 2016

Tbonius · Mar 15, 2016

When you had your hard drive connected, did you check to see if you still had the NVIDIA Enthusiasts Platform KDM error in device manager?

Tylerr · Mar 15, 2016

Tbonius :

No i didn't, but i currently still see the error on my ssd.

Tbonius · Mar 15, 2016

If you go to device manager and open "sound, video and game controllers", what do you have listed.

Tylerr · Mar 15, 2016

Tbonius :

High Definition Audio Device
Realtek High Definition Audio

Tbonius · Mar 15, 2016

You could try to load the drivers manually. Right click on high definition audio driver, select update driver software, then select browse my computer for driver software and then browse to the unpacked driver location you mentioned.

Tylerr · Mar 16, 2016

No like i said in my post up there the audio is working now.

i just want to know why its working now when the only thing i did was boot from another hard drive.

How do i force nvidia hd audio installation?

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