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atoparis
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n°1754230
10-20-2007 at 11:46:20 PM

This thing is driving me crazy...

I just built a new computer, have a ga-p35-ds3l mobo, and i didnt get a sound card cause my mobo has a simple one and thats all i really need... well somethings not right, i pluged in my monitor to the outlet on my mobo and no sound, media player doesnt work either... i installed all the drivers, they are realtek audio 5 but i have no volume, not even a volume control in the taskbar.... and when i open the sounds tab in the control menu, the HUD comes up but everything is grayed out like it doesnt even recognize the mobo sound card? what do i do....


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n°1754324
10-21-2007 at 03:20:50 PM

It's your monitor. use a pair of headphones/speakers & try them out. Works for me out of the box with $10 speakers. When the green (middle) audio out is hooked up right, the Realtek props won't bother you. Otherwise, it'll pop up telling you there's no audio connection.

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n°1754332
10-21-2007 at 04:24:15 PM

Look in the device manager to see if your system has problems with the onboard sound. Chances are, you may need to uninstall it and reinstall it. I use realtek as well, and it works good enough for me.

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n°1754419
10-22-2007 at 02:56:53 AM

sweet i will try that... i think i have it working but i have no way to control the audio there isnt an icon in the task bar like usually....


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n°1754423
10-22-2007 at 03:12:10 AM

still nothing... media player wont even run or recognize it, how do i check in bios to see if its recognizing it?


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n°1754432
10-22-2007 at 03:41:29 AM

If it's in "Device Manager" its already enabled in BIOS.


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n°1754433
10-22-2007 at 03:41:44 AM

when i go to look at it, it says no active mixers detected... what is that?

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n°1754434
10-22-2007 at 03:42:40 AM

and when i try to uninstall it, it says that the computer needs it to boot, or something stupid like that


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n°1754437
10-22-2007 at 03:58:25 AM

atoparis wrote :

when i go to look at it, it says no active mixers detected... what is that?



That's not what Device Manager would say. I would say "Realtek High Definition Audio" with an exclamation mark on it if it wasn't working.

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n°1754443
10-22-2007 at 04:20:01 AM

yea that says its working but the taskbar icon says no active mixers detected...

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n°1754457
10-22-2007 at 05:16:30 AM

atoparis wrote :

yea that says its working but the taskbar icon says no active mixers detected...



You're using Windows XP, right? You need more than the audio driver, you need the HD audio update for Windows XP if that's the case.

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n°1754461
10-22-2007 at 05:39:12 AM

Download the appropriate drivers from here. http://www.realtek.com.tw/download [...] o%20Codecs

From what I can tell you have a monitor with built-in speakers? If so, is there not a separate 1/8" inch plug to plug cord for this? If so I would hook it to the green plug on the MB first. If that does not work, or sounds fuzzy, try the black or gray plugs.

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n°1754471
10-22-2007 at 06:43:15 AM

tlmck wrote :

Download the appropriate drivers from here. http://www.realtek.com.tw/download [...] o%20Codecs



Last I checked the Windows XP HD audio update wasn't part of the Realtek drivers, but it can be found on the motherboard CD.

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n°1754474
10-22-2007 at 06:56:49 AM

Crashman wrote :

Last I checked the Windows XP HD audio update wasn't part of the Realtek drivers, but it can be found on the motherboard CD.


My link goes directly to the HD audio drivers. The XP drivers, the ones that say XP in green, are the second and third one down. One is a zip file, one is a .exe.

For anyone interested, the Linux drivers also work well.

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n°1754479
10-22-2007 at 07:09:16 AM