Hey guys -
I had put together two new builds with identical boards: MSI Z77-GD55's - and both had been working perfectly through the weekend.
The i5 system is still working just fine, but the i7 has lost output via audio jacks. It lost the sound after having been shut down Sunday night. It might be possible the i7 recieved some sort of ninja Windows-patch, but I've gone through a complete re-install (took litterally 5 minutes to reinstall Win7) and the condition remains.
There are a couple things to mention:
With only the Realtek audio driver installed, the Audio Playback sound option does display the correct audio jacks, but does not detect speakers / headphones - and thus will not allow output.
Once the Realtek Audio Manager (software) is installed, only the High Definition Audio remains - and the standard audio jacks disappear (again, preventing audio output).
An optino within the Realtek Audio Manager allows to "Ignore auto-detection of front panel" (I think was the description) - which was required to be selected in order to play audio when it DID work - but now, that doesn't even have an effect... I'm not getting any audio out.
It might be remotely possible to have been resultant from the MSI Live Update having updated the MB BIOS - but I believe I still had audio for at least 1 day past the update, before resulting in the current condition. If this is the case, I may be able to test older firmware updates...
The drivers I had initially used, and used once again after reinstalling was the same, straight off the CD.
Lastly, the speakers I've used still work on other systems just fine, and no speakers will work with this MSI.
There's something I may be missing, but the hardware + software wouldn't be any different.
I had put together two new builds with identical boards: MSI Z77-GD55's - and both had been working perfectly through the weekend.
The i5 system is still working just fine, but the i7 has lost output via audio jacks. It lost the sound after having been shut down Sunday night. It might be possible the i7 recieved some sort of ninja Windows-patch, but I've gone through a complete re-install (took litterally 5 minutes to reinstall Win7) and the condition remains.
There are a couple things to mention:
With only the Realtek audio driver installed, the Audio Playback sound option does display the correct audio jacks, but does not detect speakers / headphones - and thus will not allow output.
Once the Realtek Audio Manager (software) is installed, only the High Definition Audio remains - and the standard audio jacks disappear (again, preventing audio output).
An optino within the Realtek Audio Manager allows to "Ignore auto-detection of front panel" (I think was the description) - which was required to be selected in order to play audio when it DID work - but now, that doesn't even have an effect... I'm not getting any audio out.
It might be remotely possible to have been resultant from the MSI Live Update having updated the MB BIOS - but I believe I still had audio for at least 1 day past the update, before resulting in the current condition. If this is the case, I may be able to test older firmware updates...
The drivers I had initially used, and used once again after reinstalling was the same, straight off the CD.
Lastly, the speakers I've used still work on other systems just fine, and no speakers will work with this MSI.
There's something I may be missing, but the hardware + software wouldn't be any different.
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