No Stereo Mix in Windows 7 Please Help!

Anonymous
2010-02-13T18:08:24+00:00

I've read all over on the internet but none of the solutions help me. I use Stereo Mix to send sounds over MSN using the record button as well as using the mic. The mic works fine in 7 and stereo mix used to work in windowsxp and vista but now in windows 7 on the same machine (Acer 4420 notebook) there is no stereo mix. I go into the sound control panel then right click and say

Show disabled devices

Show disconnected devices

and all that shows up is the monitor microphone, the microphone sound card jack and line-in. I need Stereo Mix to work in Windows 7.

I've written for help on the microsoft answers board twice now and they ignored me, I've asked on yahoo answers, they ignored me. I even wrote to realtek and they have ignored me as well twice now, I will be contacting the better business bureau to complain about customer service if I cannot reach a solution. I have been trying to find a solution for a month now!

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Anonymous
2012-02-06T17:36:38+00:00

I have fixed the stereo problem.I went back to H/P and asked them to fix it. and they updated the bios and updated the audio driver.Lokks like it's an older driver but it works fine and I have my stero back.The update for the bios is the fix,along with update driver.

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2010-02-14T15:40:56+00:00

Hi Epic_Geek,

I see that you have posted on Microsoft Answers Forum before and Praseetha had replied to your query. Please let us know if you have followed all her suggestions.

To check your previous thread, click here.

Get back to us so that we can troubleshoot further, if required.

Regards,

Gulrez

Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-01-31T01:53:32+00:00

    My Hp Pavilion dv7 has lost stereo mix and I have Cakewalk recording program and use the stero separation to record certain drum parts. I have two HP laptop and neither have stereo anymore.What the **** is going on IN OUR LIVES???

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-12-14T23:27:33+00:00

    You are great, thanks.

    What you do is upgrade windows 7's driver and select the xp driver to replace it.  It works, but it may cause audio silent later on.  If it does, uninstall the xp driver and delete the driver.  Rescan for hardware change and Windows 7's driver should come back.  Then at a later time when you want to use the stereo again, redo the upgrade.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-12-14T15:18:30+00:00

    Sorry I'm a bit late to this forum.

    No Stereo Mix in Windows 7 has been bugging me, of and on, for over a year.

    As I have a couple of Dell Inspiron 6400 laptops and a Windows XP partition on both, I could use stereo mix  there, and I just left the problem about Windows7 on the back burner.

    Now two things in this forum, put together, have solved the problem for me.

    1. I FORCED a Dell 6400 XP Sigma Tel driver to install in Windows 7, and I do mean forced.
    2. Re-booted, then followed the instructions below : thanks Dominic

     (Click on speaker icon on the start bar-in taskbar notifications or whatever, click on recording devices-right click in box, and tick 'show disabled devices', then stereo mix appears-then enable the device)

    Suddenly Stereo Mix can be used in all my favorite software.

    I hope this helps someone else.

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