No Sound, From Any Sound Card

[Guest]

Hello, Ive looked on the board here and really couldnt find too much. I Just
bought windows vista x64 Ultimate. So far, everything is working great,
except the sound. I have a Creative Sound Audigy 2 and the onboard sound
which is just a realtek set of drivers.

I downloaded beta drivers from creative
Windows Vista automatically downloaded drivers for motherboard sound (realtek)

I cant get sound from any one of them. I plugged my speakers into both set
of jacks and I cant get anything.

Are there any solutions to this problem yet?

Rich

 

[Administrator/jhafele]

Installed Vista Business last week and downloaded/installed the latest
Creative Beta Drivers ( 2.12.0001 ) for my Audigy2ZS PCI card. Intermittent
operation at best. Reinstalled drivers WITHOUT removing already installed
set of same drivers.
The install program found the installed drivers - removed them - and
reinstalled the driver set again. Voila -- Success !
Learned this trick from previous installations on RC1 and RC2. Good luck.

 

[Guest]

Well, thanks for the tip, but no Voila here. Anything else out there? does
teh motherboard have to be plugged into the soundcard like in the old days?

Thanks

Rich

 

[Dennis Pack]

Richard:
Since you have the creative card installed, go into the bios and
disable onboard sound. With onboard sound enabled and a creative card
installed the conflict will disable all sound. One thing that I've noticed
is the task bar volume control is very muted with a creative card, don't use
that as a sound card performance guide. Have a great day.

 

[Guest]

Dennis,

Thanks for the try, but still no sound. I disabled it on the bios sooo....
anything else?

Rich

 

[Guest]

Ok heres a new update, when i hit play on any sound player, ( Windows Media
player and or itunes) the bar doesnt even move. it just stays at position
0:00. Also, when i go to play sounds from my windows sounds (like window
start up) nothing happens.

Sooo hopefully this will help!

Thanks again

 

[Guest]

Heres where im at now - tues feb 13, 11am.

Still no sound. but Computer is acting as if there is. Equalizer bar in
sound options is bouncing when the sound is playing. the songs are flowing
through the programs. Just no sound.

ive tried a second set of speakers and headphones.

thanks again

 

[ThatsIT.com.au]

Heres where im at now - tues feb 13, 11am.

Still no sound. but Computer is acting as if there is. Equalizer bar in
sound options is bouncing when the sound is playing. the songs are flowing
through the programs. Just no sound.

what sort of sound device do you have?

hav you tried installing the drivers from orginal CD

when i upgraded from xp to vista i lost sould also, all other drivers were
updated except sound max, i had to get my cd and reinstall it

 

[Guest]

Do you think the sound drivers for windows xp 32 bit would work with windows
vista 64 bit?

Im using a creative sound audigy 2

rich

 

[Dennis Pack]

Richard:
Use WinRar to unzip the Creative driver file, verify that onboard
sound is disabled. Uninstall the soundcard, reboot. In device manager there
should now be an unknown multi-media controller listed, right click, update
driver, choose driver to install, browse, point to the unzipped Creative wdm
file, install. After installation reboot. Have a great day.

 

[Guest]

Dennis,

thanks for the tip, but still no luck. This is starting to get to me....
anything else?

Rich

 

[Dennis Pack]

Richard:
I'm running out of ideas also. Download the Creative Sound Blaster
X-Fi series Vista Driver 2.13.0001 and unzip it. Uninstall the soundcard
drivers again then manually install the X-Fi driver. This is the driver that
I'm using with my Creative Audigy 2ZS sound card. Have a great day.

 

[Guest]

Well, No luck with the X-FI either. Ughag

Rich

Richard:
I'm running out of ideas also. Download the Creative Sound Blaster
X-Fi series Vista Driver 2.13.0001 and unzip it. Uninstall the soundcard
drivers again then manually install the X-Fi driver. This is the driver that
I'm using with my Creative Audigy 2ZS sound card. Have a great day.

 

[Guest]

Couple of thoughts have crossed my mind...

Would the sound card not be compatible with the motherboard?
Sound card - Sound Audigy 2
Mobo - Gigabyte K8 Triton

also

is there a "Vista Ready" sound card?

Thanks

Rich

 

[Dennis Pack]

Richard:
Anything's possible, but that wouldn't answer why the onboard sound
wouldn't work.

 

[Guest]

Dennis,

Good call my friend. I'm having trouble coming up with any other ways that i
may be able to fix this. I was actually in the market to start building my
home theater system so i purchased a receiver today that accepts usb ports to
hook up your computer to the receiver. Hopefully that will work. It would be
awesome if we could fix this though, so we can help out any future problems
people may have.

Rich

 

[Guest]

Also, try this. Go to Hardware and Sounds in Control Panel, Click Manage
Audio Devices. Click on each of the items that control your "Speakers" and
click the "Properties" button at the bottom. Under "Advanced" uncheck the
boxes under exclusive mode. Now go back in to the "Speakers" control that
lists your sound card. Click "Properties". Click "Advanced". Now recheck the
boxes under "Exclusive Mode". Now hit the "test" button. Your sound should
now work.

This worked for me in dealing with this problem.

Hope this helps.

 

[Alex T. ~MVP Windows Shell/User~]

Okay not to sound mean or anything but have you connected the speaker to the
correct jack on the back of the sound card? Have you tried these speakers
on another system to verify they are working and that it is a problem
related to this system?