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tacohead   08-31-2008 at 05:25:05 AM

Got a new rig about a month ago with vista 64bit home premium, installed the chipset cd and everything works fine. I recently dual booted xp32bit since vista can use certain programs and I can't seem to get the sound working. I installed all the drivers on the cd and downloaded newer realtek drivers but didn't have any effect. The sound and audio in control panels is all greyed out. Theres 2x PCI Device with the yellow ?! next to them in device manager under "other devices" tab so it's possible these are audio but I can't get them to install for the life of me. Not sure whats going on, it should of installed just like in vista I would assume, Any ideas?

mobo: ga ep35-ds3l

Thanks guys.

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Anonymous   08-31-2008 at 06:07:24 PM
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Did you check to see that the realtek device is working? Control panel-sounds and audio devices-sounds and audio device properties- hardware radio button. If it's not working, reinstall the driver. If it is working check the volume settings with volume icon in your desktop startup tray. Right click it and open volume control. Make sure the master volume aren't muted and are turned up. The wave control on mine frequently gets turned down by another program on my pc. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. Hope your problem is this simple.

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tacohead   08-31-2008 at 10:34:24 PM
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It's definitely not the volume, there isn't even a volume icon, the drivers won't installed and I don't know why. I have the newest ones from the gigabyte website. Maybe it's a xp, sp3 problem? Did the exact same thing with vista and had no problems at all. Everything else installed but this stupid sound! :(


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chookman   08-31-2008 at 11:59:52 PM
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Are you sure you got the right drivers? 64bit driver wont work on 32bit OS

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elibrarian   06-15-2009 at 07:47:47 PM
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Anonymous wrote :

Did you check to see that the realtek device is working? Control panel-sounds and audio devices-sounds and audio device properties- hardware radio button. If it's not working, reinstall the driver. If it is working check the volume settings with volume icon in your desktop startup tray. Right click it and open volume control. Make sure the master volume aren't muted and are turned up. The wave control on mine frequently gets turned down by another program on my pc. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. Hope your problem is this simple.




Hi. my wave volume keeps getting turned down too -- every time I boot up, I have to turn up the wave volume. Can you please let me know what program was responsible? Thanks! elibrarian@hotmail.com

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