realtek audio problem

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....

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm not talking about Realtek's "drivers", I'm speaking of MS hotfix KB888111 which is needed to support them. It's on the motherboard CD, and last I checked, it wasn't included in Realtek's driver pack.

In the bios, you should look for intergraded peripherals, that would normally have all onboard devices to enable or disable (firewire, network/Lan, Sound, and perhaps video). Not all MB brands would have the exact same thing, but look in your manual if your totally not sure. It should be easy to find.

Not sure if your looking at the device manager, located:

Start > control panel > administrative tools > computer management - select device manager.

From there you should see anything that is having a problem.

Once you got it working, XP should say it found a new device if it hasn't been enabled. From that point it's prolly best to uninstall the drivers again, and reinstall, but click on cancel when windows tries to install it.

i have an ibm thinkpad r40 with realtek soundcard which has stopped working after i reinstalled the OS. i have already installed the drivers but i still have no sound. please help me... thank you

you know what dude?? you should have gotten the drivers from realtek... the HD audio drivers(the zip one) and unzipped it on the desktop and also you should had uninstall the drivers, restart the computer and "update" de drivers with the other ones

realtek site

i had this problem today... and i seemed to stumble onto a fix for myself after about 6 hours of working on it. fisrt of all i would like to say, i could never get windows to actually reconice the sound card, as in finding new hardware. so after installing.. uninstalling rebooting at least 30 times... i uninstalled the ms update and the sound drivers restarted my comp in safe mode (w/ command prompt) and windows tried to install the drivers itself that time. so i cancled that and rebooted normally and isntalled the drivers from the disk... now i have sound.
maybe this can help you... good luck