Hi, Tony.
When Vista Setup finished installing Vista Ultimate x64 on my computer (EPoX
MF570sli mobo) with onboard Realtek AC'97 last December, I had no sound.
But I visited Windows Update and accepted the driver it offered. Within a
few minutes of the Windows installation, my sound was working and has given
me no problems since. I'm neither audiophile nor gamer, so my 2 little
speakers plus woofer suit me just fine.
Device Manager says my sound device is the High Definition Audio Device,
from Microsoft, Driver Version 6.0.6000.16386, dated 6/21/06.
Early in the Vista beta, I downloaded software from Realtek; these provided
both drivers and additional features for the sound hardware.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)
"Tony" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I experience major problems with getting a AC 97 system up and running
> under Vista.
> I have a Gigabyte sinxp1394 Mobo with AC97 chipset and Vista ultimate. I
> upgraded the driver with the realtek 6.0.6243 version I downloaded from
> Realtek.
>
> Recording turned out to be impossible in an erratic way. Nor the build in
> sound recorder, The Microsoft media 9 encoder or Adobe Audigy see the
> mixer.
>
> After letting Windows sort out a new driver Windows installed the 5.0.6150
> version of a Microsoft distributed Realtek driver.
> Now the standard sound recorder is able to see the stereo mixer I
> appointed as default recording device, but the Microsoft Media encoder
> does not. Turning on the Pin line onto the mixer from the encoder does not
> help.
> When I try to start the mixer from the encoder it can't find sndvol.exe.
> The mixer is set to 16 bit 44.1 KHz stereo as is the recording default. It
> made sense to me to use the same settings.
> Kind regards
> Tony Thijs
> Oriolus
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