Microsoft Windows Vista - How I Finally Got Sound To Work - It Shouldn’t Have Worked!
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Before I go on, I have a Asus K8V-X-SE mobo with a built in 5.1 sound card which is AC97 from Via, works fine in XP and every Linux distro I have used.
I don’t know whether to feel satisfied or foolish for being without sound on my Microsoft Windows Vista machine for over five months, but I FINALLY got sound working. I have scoured the Internet high and low to find a Vista drive that would work to no avail. Yesterday I decided to tackle the problem head on. I literally tried six different drivers that did not work. Yet Vista was insistent on telling me that the sound drivers were the correct one, and that everything was working just fine.
I GOT NO SOUND! IT IS NOT WORKING PERFECTLY!
Then I spotted something. Vista had installed a driver from Realtek. I was using Realtek Vista drivers as well. Nothing. I went to the Asus site and they had no updated drivers, just a old one for SoundMax from July 2003 that supported every version of Windows except Vista. No Vista certified drivers were available.
On a whim, I decided to try the old driver. I uninstalled the newest driver[s] and installed the old one. Vista balked saying this driver was for another version of Windows and would not install it. Yet at the next screen I got a message asking if the driver installed properly. I answered ‘No’ and Windows proceeded to install it anyway. Go figure.
After a reboot, I had sound, but with a error message saying my Codec was wrong. I told it to go away. Believe it or not it did and hasn’t showed up since. Then I went in and configured the system for 5.1 sound, ran a test and all five speakers worked perfectly.
Now I know this isn’t the way it is supposed to be. I have read more tales about older drivers not working in Vista, especially old ones for XP and before. Vista has a all new sound system that requires Vista certified or at least Vista compliant drivers. But in my case it works and I just flat out don’t give a damn Scarlet !
Darn goofy Windows. Nothing ever seems to change. LOL
Comments welcome.
7 Comments
marc klink
May 1st, 2007
at 4:09pm
Just shows how LITTLE the driver model changed, after all the hullaballoo about huge differences and how older drivers were not going to work due to security.
It also shows that sometimes plug’n'pray just isn’t enough.
Ron Schenone
May 1st, 2007
at 4:32pm
Hi Marc,
Thanks for the comment. I’m still scratching my head.
Ron
Coolmatt
May 16th, 2007
at 9:53pm
Awesome that you got it working, but you could have just uninstalled the pre-installed Vista drivers for your integrated sound controller (if Vista did install drivers for it) and just using the folder that you get from Asus’s website, have Vista search that folder for the drivers.
If you try installing using the Setup.exe, it will tell you what you said (OS not compatible). Weird how it worked after the way you did it, but with my same Mobo I was able to have Vista search for the drivers in the folder downloaded off of Asus’s website.
Hope this might help those with problems such as this.
Scott Cee
June 18th, 2007
at 4:38pm
Which driver in particular did you install? I’ve got the same problem.
Ron Schenone
June 18th, 2007
at 6:14pm
I got the driver from the Asus site for my K8V -SE Deluxe mobo and used the Windows XP driver.
Hope this helps, Ron
Nictoe
June 20th, 2007
at 11:45am
I heard that the latest Vista Compliant SoundMax drvier is: 5.12.01.5246…its just I can’t seem to find a download for it.
Ron Schenone
June 20th, 2007
at 2:06pm
Hello Nictoe,
Is this it?
http://www.radarsync.com/drivers_details.php?driverid=231536&&tag=22