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The Windows Vista audio diagnostic and installation guide
(Your best bet is to go with on board audio if you have it)
First we will disable UAP
(I found this out on my own. Everyone says to do it, but never explains how,
so I will)
1. Login to the Admin account
2. then go to start, controll panel, user accounts, click the admin account,
at the bottom you will see "change security settings", uncheck the UAP box,
that loosens security a bit for the next step
3. reboot
Next we will permenately disable signed driver checking, yay, no more F8
pressing
(this is an excerpt by user KB3LWJ from planetAMD)
1. Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and open Task Manager.
If you already disabled User Account Control, then go to File->Run and run
cmd. Go to step 3.
If UAC is enabled or you don't know what UAC is, go to the "Processes" tab.
If there's a button that says "Show processes from all users", click it and
go through the popup window, then go to File->Run and run cmd.
In either case, the Run dialog should say "This task will be created with
administrative privileges".
2. At the command prompt, enter Bcdedit.exe –set nointegritychecks ON.
3. Reboot your computer. The sound will now work.
This whole issue is because in x64 Vista, any kernel-mode driver (audio
being one) must be signed to load (hence the "Driver cannot be loaded"
error). The bcdedit command disables that requirement, allowing you to load
the unsigned driver.
In this step we will ensure to disable any PCI sound cards you may have
and only leave the onboard audio enabled
1. Go to start, control panel, device manager(grey toolbox icon), scroll
down till you see "sound, video game controllers and expand it"
2. If you only see one device your Onboard Audio device your good to go for
now.
3. If you see another audio device, ex. Sound Blaster, right click on it and
disable it, dont disable your on-board audio device.
4. close the device manager your ready for the next step.
Now to fix the media player bug
(This is actually tied to the volume control now, one and the same)
1. Open Windows Media Player
2. Right click in the black area next to the "URGE" and "Sign In" buttons.
In the popup menu select "View" , then select "Classic Menus"
3. This will give you the familiar file menus (that should be default to
begin with).
4. Click on tools, options, select the "devices tab", you should see
"speakers" at the bottom of the list
5. Click on speakers, then hit the "properties" button, you should see at
the top the "sound playback: audio device to use",in that dropdown menu pick
your onboard audio device, hit apply and close that out.
The last step, download and install the correct drivers
(Try to pick driver installers that "Apply to all O/Ss" I have had 100% luck
with these on all of my devices)
1. First download and install the latest chipset drivers, reboot, you will
likely get a blue screen on death, the most productive blue screen of death I
have seen, it just told me that the IRQ and DMA settings got blitzed, dont
worry about it
2. Next install the onboard audio drivers most likely from connexant, or
realtek, once done reboot
Congrats!! you should be done, hope this method works for you, took me 6
months of waiting and research to compile this gem, Mark
(Your best bet is to go with on board audio if you have it)
First we will disable UAP
(I found this out on my own. Everyone says to do it, but never explains how,
so I will)
1. Login to the Admin account
2. then go to start, controll panel, user accounts, click the admin account,
at the bottom you will see "change security settings", uncheck the UAP box,
that loosens security a bit for the next step
3. reboot
Next we will permenately disable signed driver checking, yay, no more F8
pressing
(this is an excerpt by user KB3LWJ from planetAMD)
1. Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete and open Task Manager.
If you already disabled User Account Control, then go to File->Run and run
cmd. Go to step 3.
If UAC is enabled or you don't know what UAC is, go to the "Processes" tab.
If there's a button that says "Show processes from all users", click it and
go through the popup window, then go to File->Run and run cmd.
In either case, the Run dialog should say "This task will be created with
administrative privileges".
2. At the command prompt, enter Bcdedit.exe –set nointegritychecks ON.
3. Reboot your computer. The sound will now work.
This whole issue is because in x64 Vista, any kernel-mode driver (audio
being one) must be signed to load (hence the "Driver cannot be loaded"
error). The bcdedit command disables that requirement, allowing you to load
the unsigned driver.
In this step we will ensure to disable any PCI sound cards you may have
and only leave the onboard audio enabled
1. Go to start, control panel, device manager(grey toolbox icon), scroll
down till you see "sound, video game controllers and expand it"
2. If you only see one device your Onboard Audio device your good to go for
now.
3. If you see another audio device, ex. Sound Blaster, right click on it and
disable it, dont disable your on-board audio device.
4. close the device manager your ready for the next step.
Now to fix the media player bug
(This is actually tied to the volume control now, one and the same)
1. Open Windows Media Player
2. Right click in the black area next to the "URGE" and "Sign In" buttons.
In the popup menu select "View" , then select "Classic Menus"
3. This will give you the familiar file menus (that should be default to
begin with).
4. Click on tools, options, select the "devices tab", you should see
"speakers" at the bottom of the list
5. Click on speakers, then hit the "properties" button, you should see at
the top the "sound playback: audio device to use",in that dropdown menu pick
your onboard audio device, hit apply and close that out.
The last step, download and install the correct drivers
(Try to pick driver installers that "Apply to all O/Ss" I have had 100% luck
with these on all of my devices)
1. First download and install the latest chipset drivers, reboot, you will
likely get a blue screen on death, the most productive blue screen of death I
have seen, it just told me that the IRQ and DMA settings got blitzed, dont
worry about it
2. Next install the onboard audio drivers most likely from connexant, or
realtek, once done reboot
Congrats!! you should be done, hope this method works for you, took me 6
months of waiting and research to compile this gem, Mark