Does anyone have sound with Vista?

[Guest]

I'm running on a brand spanking new (no previous O/S) AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual
Core Processor 5200(Model MSI K9N4 SLI AM2 NFORCE 500SLI MS-7325 V1.X)+2.00
GB RAM (Corsair DDR2 6400 XMS2 Extreme with heat spreaders) and a NVIDIA
GeForce 7950 GTOC 512MB/GDDR3 Graphics Card. I did not install an audio card
or a second graphics card in SLI mode thinking I would avoid any "add on"
type driver hassles for now...man was I wrong! This box should be kicking a**
and taking names...but I can't even hear Windows Log On music! I have no
sound what-so-ever and Vista detects no audio device. I also have no access
to the Dual Core Center. I have searched MSI's site as well as Creative Labs
and other sound card makers for Vista support thinking I'll just buy a new
card and worry about the motherboard sound later, but the only thing I'm
finding on the Mftr. websites is lame excuses, very few answers and no
drivers at all! I think these big Mftr.'s of sound cards must have had
information from their "partner" Microsoft for months at least, but they
probably didn't believe Vista would release on schedule so they didn't bother
with driver code. Does anyone have any sound set ups that I work on their
machine? Thank you.

 

[Gary Mount]

I have had XP drivers work on my Vista setup.
Sound on my ASUS mother board has always worked since the betas. Not out of
the box, but once I installed the driver for my network card (built into the
mother board) all other drivers where updated automatically as needed.

64 bit drivers are a different matter. You don't say if you are using the 64
bit vista.

 

[SDR]

I using an Asus P5B Deluxe and sound came right up after my Vista Home
Premium install. In Device Manager under Sound it said "HD Sound" and that
was it. It works okay but just used it until I got things running then
stuck my Audigy 2 card in with Creative's new Vista drivers and it work
great.

SDR

 

[gripstock]

I have a ASUS P4C800E Deluxe MB with built in SoundMAX chip. My sound
has always been great too but when I upgraded to Vista Ultimate the
Windows sounds are barely audible. Plays CD sound, MP3's, video
sounds great. I have checked everything too. The Asus download site
is down today (Sunday) like it always is on weekends so I can't check
for a new Vista driver but this MB chip is almost four years old so I
don't know if they will pay any attention to the problem even if it is
in the drivers.
BTW... does Vista have a startup and exit sound scheme of any length
like Windows XP and Windows 98? When I try to listen in the audio
device in control panel it is so breif I can't tell what the sound is.

 

[Dale]

Just search for drivers for the manufacturer of your sound chipset on your
motherboard.

Dale

 

[John Barnes]

Creative Audigy seems to have currently working Vista drivers. My sound is
fine since they came out with the update. Realtek has had problems with
theirs but in the past has been great and they are on many motherboards
including yours.

 

[Gary Mount]

The startup sound is 4 seconds, and is reported to have cost $70,000 to
produce (by a musician).

 

[Daze N. Knights]

Do you use a microphone at all?

I using an Asus P5B Deluxe and sound came right up after my Vista Home
Premium install. In Device Manager under Sound it said "HD Sound" and that
was it. It works okay but just used it until I got things running then
stuck my Audigy 2 card in with Creative's new Vista drivers and it work
great.

SDR

 

[Daze N. Knights]

Do you use a microphone at all?

Creative Audigy seems to have currently working Vista drivers. My sound
is fine since they came out with the update. Realtek has had problems
with theirs but in the past has been great and they are on many
motherboards including yours.

 

[Guest]

I loaded the 32 because I new it was backward compatible and I didn't want to
loose an old Alps printer that I use once in a while for graphic art apps,
but now that you mention it I may have found the right drivers in the 64
edition.

 

[Bill Condie]

I have a fairly new "Vista-ready" Dell; and was amazed I did not have to
install one driver!

Clean-installed XP Pro needed about a dozen

 

[John Barnes]

Yes with the phone. Sometime usb sometimes in the console

 

[Richard Urban]

I use the microphone that is built into my webcam. It works fine.

Are you having problems?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[SDR]

No, I have not used a microphone as of yet.

SDR

 

[Chris]

I have a fairly new "Vista-ready" Dell; and was amazed I did not have to
install one driver!

Clean-installed XP Pro needed about a dozen

My E1505 is seven months old, and I did not have to load any drivers
either with a clean install of Vista, except for the mouse pad thingy.
Vista did update the ATI drivers, but they worked fine at first boot. I
also have to load about a dozen drivers on a clean install of XP.

 

[Daze N. Knights]

Yeah. I noticed John was using a Creative Audigy sound card, so thought
I'd ask. Running 32-bit Vista Ultimate on a new system with an Intel
DP965LT board, I couldn't get my microphone volume to work right using
the onboard sound (Sigmatel with Vista 32 drivers downloaded from
Intel), so I've been trying an inexpensive Audigy SE card (with the
latest Vista 32 drivers downloaded from Creative), and continue having
similar problems with my microphone volume. The exact scenario varies,
but typically I initiate a call with Skype and, as soon as I start
talking, the microphone volume level (Control Panel > Sound > Recording

Microphone > Properties > Levels) suddenly drops from 100% to 0%

(sometimes it's only the Left side in "Balance" that drops to 0%, while
the Right stays at 100), and I am suddenly almost or completely
inaudible to the listener.

As I say, it varies, and sometimes doesn't occur at all, but it does
all-too-often. I've gone round in circles with it, and just recently
discovered that the situation seems to improve if I change the "Default
Format" (Control Panel > Sound > Recording > Microphone > Advanced). It
was initially set an "1 channel 48000 Hz (DVD Quality)," as I recall. I
now have it at "2 channel 48000 Hz (Studio Quality)." My impression, at
the moment, is that changing this "Default Format" corrects the
situation until the computer is restarted, but I may be wrong.

I feared the problem was the motherboard, and emailed back-and-forth to
Intel support over the issue. Their first suggestion was to check the
volume setting at "Levels." Their next suggestion was to remove the
motherboard, look for metal shavings behind it, and try to boot the
motherboard hooked up only to the PSU with a video card and minimal RAM,
which I thought was a crazy suggestion. Their third communication
indicated that XP-64 and Vista audio drivers weren't ready yet for all
Intel boards and to check their website (where I had downloaded my
Sigmatel drivers that were labeled as Vista 32 and 64 ready and dated
12/5/06).

I have absolutely no other issues with the motherboard at all, so my
impression is that I'm dealing with a situation of audio drivers not
being fully ready for Vista yet, both in the case of the Sigmatel
provided by Intel and the Audigy SE provided by Creative. In both cases,
my sound is just fine in all respects-----except for this microphone
volume issue.
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[Guest]

Right you are! Just got driver update from Realtek's website loaded and good
to go...Thank you much.

 

[Squibbly]

wow is your name really John Barnes? wot a legend

 

[Squibbly]

my sound is awful at times its just plain awful, sounds like something
grating the soundcard if not the vista

 

[Daze N. Knights]

Follow-up to last post about my microphone problem. I shut down my
computer, rebooted, opened up the volume level "Balance" window for my
microphone, tried another test Skype call, and as soon as I started
speaking, both Left and Right sliders slid down from 100% to near 0% and
I could barely hear myself on the Skype test playback. I just can't seem
to beat this, have been fooling around with it for nearly a month now,
and have basically the same problems with both onboard Sigmatel audio as
well as a Creative Audigy SE sound card. I ever tried installing XP on
another hard drive to see if it was just a Vista issue, and couldn't
seem to get away from similar microphone volume problems there.

I have just come back to thinking that this must be somehow an issue
with my Intel DP965LT mobo. I can still return it to NewEgg for a
refund, but I would need to order a replacement within the next couple
of days. I'm used to Intel boards and hate moving away from them, but I
need one with an LGA 775 socket for an Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 processor,
would prefer Intel's 965 chipset, and Intel offers no other options
with those specifications. A shame, because their DP965LT had everything
I wanted at a great price ($107 at the time), but I need a working
microphone. So tonight I'm looking at maybe replacing it with an Asus
P5B-E, which is unfortunately $44 more . . .