OK, I give up.

I freaked something up last night, and now I have no sound.
At all.
The sound icon is there with an x, and says I have no speakers attached.

They are still plugged in, but I have reloaded drivers ad infinitum to no avail.

How do I tell this freaking OS that my speakers are attached and wish them to communicate with the mother ship?

Was never a problem with XP......

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right-click on the speaker symbol, ?options for volumecontrol? (using german version here), check if speakers output is selected, and not HDMI or SPDIF or something else?

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right-click on the speaker symbol, ?options for volumecontrol? (using german version here), check if speakers output is selected, and not HDMI or SPDIF or something else?

Yeah. Been there, done that.
It says speakers are selected, and yet when I back out, the icon is still giving me the whack. Something is really tied up.
One one hand, the audio icon says there are no speakers.
But you click on it for details, and it says they are there.

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is this onboard sound. or an actual sound card. also if onboard sound is it realtek audio sound

right-click on the speaker symbol, ?options for volumecontrol? (using german version here), check if speakers output is selected, and not HDMI or SPDIF or something else?

Yeah. Been there, done that.
It says speakers are selected, and yet when I back out, the icon is still giving me the whack. Something is really tied up.
One one hand, the audio icon says there are no speakers.
But you click on it for details, and it says they are there.

This may sound stupid, but what does Device Manager indicate?

1) Does the device report operating properly?

2) Is the device indicated by a yellow ?. If so, can you install the basic Windows driver for the device?

3) If the device is not indicated by a yellow ?, can the driver be updated using the Windows driver?

4) Are you using 3rd party audio software? If so can you completely remove all references of the software, including the registry, then reinstall it?

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is this onboard sound. or an actual sound card. also if onboard sound is it realtek audio sound

Onboard. Realtek.
I have not run a dedicated sound card for many years.

It may have actually failed, dunno.

I think it's a setup error, though.

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is this onboard sound. or an actual sound card. also if onboard sound is it realtek audio sound

Onboard. Realtek.
I have not run a dedicated sound card for many years.

It may have actually failed, dunno.

I think it's a setup error, though.

Try this --

1) Uninstall Realtek via Programs & Features.
2) Run Driver Sweeper to clean out all references.
3) After machine recycle, Install latest Realtek driver. Don't know if 6.0.1.6873 applies to your machine or not. You may have to go to Realtek to get the driver.

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I had sooooo many issues with win8 and win7 with realtek that i actually went out and purchased a sound card. but what did work on one of my systems was this. a complete driver clean. change windows update so it doesnt auto install hardware driver updates. then install the oldest driver that you can find for it.

I had sooooo many issues with win8 and win7 with realtek that i actually went out and purchased a sound card. but what did work on one of my systems was this. a complete driver clean. change windows update so it doesnt auto install hardware driver updates. then install the oldest driver that you can find for it.

Rather than the newest......LOL.

I just might try that.

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I was having problems in Win 8 with 'leftover' devices from swapping video cards, etc. I also had it connected to a stereo with a USB cable. When I turned the stereo off Windows would swap the output to another device. I got tired of swapping the output back to USB and connected it to the stereo with an analog cable. I still had trouble until I went to the device manager, told it to Show hidden devices, uninstalled everything not starting with M$, and then told it to Scan for hardware changes. Everything has been fine since then. I had quite a few greyed out devices hidden.

is this onboard sound. or an actual sound card. also if onboard sound is it realtek audio sound

Onboard. Realtek.
I have not run a dedicated sound card for many years.

It may have actually failed, dunno.

I think it's a setup error, though.

Are your speakers analog or digital(HD)? I'm using speakers that I bought in 1992 that hookup via the green plug on the motherboard audio output, it may not be a driver problem, your system might think you have or want to use digital(HD) speakers, I'd seen the solution a while back, I'm not sure if the following will help or not.

But I found a post that might have something to do with this Here, look for the last post, this link from Jamaud may be better, as He used help.

This might work if one is using windows 7: Goto Start > Control Panel > Sound > Right click anywhere in this screen > Show disabled devices > Left-click speakers > properties > Device Usage > Enable.

Or for vista: Goto Start > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound > Right click anywhere in this screen > Show disabled devices > Left-click speakers > properties > Device Usage > Enable.

Good luck Mark.

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A Recording Expert using Onboard Sound? I would think A Sound Master would have an Audio Interface.

My External Firewire Audio Interface cost $300, and that is a Cheap One.

On Topic. Win7 is goofy about Knocking The Sound Out. It is Never A Driver problem.

Go to Sound Video and Game Controllers and Disable Everything listed except The Sound Device you use, then Go through its properties and check or uncheck the correct thingees and you be Good to Go.

Bound For IT.

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Msattler there are two bugs that I have had with Real Teck . If it the one with Azzilla if you load drivers with the speaker jack plugged in ,it sometimes does on recognize the drivers so the work around is to uninstall the drivers reboot machine unplugged all jacks .after reboot reinstall drivers and then plug the jacks in and that should fix it .
Second problem is Azzilla code sometime will not load because you have sp1 , sp2, sp3 depending on what op you are using . The driver has to manually be loaded so you will have to get a stand alone version . This happens because of sp1 it thinks you have the right drivers in it and will not load them . ON loading the Azzilla drivers manually you will have to place the windows disc into the machine . it should ask you to do this

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And to think My audio hardware is made by VIA, installing the driver was easy, but at the time My speakers were not working cause of a setting that was set to digital, technically their old power amplified analog speakers that I've had since 1992, but windows now says otherwise, go figure, but they do work.

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Msattler it is not actually the Real Tech driver that does not load it's actually the windows UAA drivers . If you have sp1,sp2,sp3 it assumes that this driver is there and why the Real Tech driver will not work , it is why you have to put the windows disc in to load the UAA drivers and associated drivers

http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=2615#dl

Gigabyte released this as a standalone driver and the link above is for my m/b driver that causes the same problems however it only happens with XP and this link is the XP 32 bit version

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The jack problem I have had with windows 7 so just don't plug anything into them until you have set the machine up.

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A Recording Expert using Onboard Sound? I would think A Sound Master would have an Audio Interface.

My External Firewire Audio Interface cost $300, and that is a Cheap One.

On Topic. Win7 is goofy about Knocking The Sound Out. It is Never A Driver problem.

Go to Sound Video and Game Controllers and Disable Everything listed except The Sound Device you use, then Go through its properties and check or uncheck the correct thingees and you be Good to Go.

Bound For IT.

Been there, done that. You are not talking to a neophite here. Thanks for the tips, though.

And I have about a grand worth of studio level editing capabilities, dude.
And that's cheap stuff. Really cheap stuff.

Got a 1/2 track Scully and a 1/4 track Teac sitting across the room too.

You ever run a studio?? I mean, all BS aside.
Have you ever run a professional recording studio?


Thought not.

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And this is really funny stuff.
When I click on the dead audio icon.......
It tells me, literally, that the speaker connector is on the back side of the computer........\
ROFLMA...I did not know where it was.

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Go to http://www.realtek.com. Download the latest driver package they have posted for your sound hardware. The same thing happened to me about a month ago. System ran fine, shut it down to do some dust removal and when I turning everything back on, no sound. For some reason, Windows 7 disabled the sound. Uninstalling and reinstalling the driver you already have won't work (don't ask me why). Running the Realtek install .exe on its new version of the driver brought everything back.

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Go to http://www.realtek.com. Download the latest driver package they have posted for your sound hardware. The same thing happened to me about a month ago. System ran fine, shut it down to do some dust removal and when I turning everything back on, no sound. For some reason, Windows 7 disabled the sound. Uninstalling and reinstalling the driver you already have won't work (don't ask me why). Running the Realtek install .exe on its new version of the driver brought everything back.

I did that last night a few times.
But, one more whack won't hurt.
Thanks.

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