Vista AC97 problem

[Tony]

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

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Tony.

My EPoX MF570sli mobo, new last December, came with Realtek ALC8xx 8-channel
audio onboard. When Vista Setup was finished and I saw the desktop for the
first time, there was no sound. But the first time I visited Windows
Update, it downloaded and installed drivers automatically. Within minutes,
the sound was working - and still does.

I'm no audiophile or gamer, so I'm quite happy with the output from my 2
small speakers with woofer on the floor. During the Vista beta last year,
with my earlier mobo, which also had Realtek AC'97 onboard, I downloaded and
installed drivers from Realtek. But I haven't had to do that with this mobo
and Vista RTM. The Realtek download included software in addition to the
drivers, but I seldom used that.

Device Manager now says my sound device is the High Definition Audio Device;
the Driver Provider is Microsoft, the Driver Date is 6/21/06 and the version
is 6.0.6000.16386.

I hope this adds a little useful information for you.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)