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I installed Windows 8 - wiped out the programs and kept the personal info. Now I dont have any sound.
Checked the device drivers and the High Definition Audio Driver isnt working or was not installed. I deleted the one that was there and rebooted. Still wont work! I cant seem to find a driver that will work. I tried updating the driver and it could find any on the pc or internet. It was working under Vista and Win 7..
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Dave
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Sorry to say, no luck. There were two HDA controllers.
With the USB audio removed, I deleted both system HDA controllers, and the regular sound devices disappeared, too. After a restart, the HDA controllers installed themselves, and the two "!" audio devices re-appeared.
Maybe physically remove the C-Media card and uninstall the drivers.
Then uninstall the Realtek sound drivers and install the latest version of the Realtek sound drivers which were just released.
I'm downloading the 32 bit driver,* however, since I wrote,,,,,
I went back and did the system HDA controller removal again. It would reinstall themselves as quickly as I deleted them this time. I uninstalled the audio drivers and was able to then take out the system controllers.
I uninstalled everything I could find on all and any audio device, realtek, CMI, etc. and even removed my USB3 PCI card. I booted and got a bunch of junk (shoulda saved the picture on another drive) that talked about trusted Microsoft audio driver. I also got 2 unknown Multimedia devices. I reinstalled the CMI card (since is has worked) and booted. Found the same trusted Microsoft driver and 2 unknown devices. I Installed the CMI driver and some of that cleared up. Tried Realtek again. Found another PCI card that had a CMI chip..... no luck, no change.
I went outside and beat the dog, came back in and restored the system from back up that I mentioned I was gonna make after I had the sound running. (I don't really have a dog)
Yes; I had SOUND.
I immediately restarted, as soon as I could get the system's attention. I STILL have sound. Conclusion: This has to be a software issue. Now: what changes the software?
But wait; there's more!!!
I did not disable the on-board realtek audio in the BIOS. Guess what? It shows good and sound comes out if it just like the CMI speakers. I can direct play back to either output. HDA is still unhappy.
My plans:
I realize all my 'wonderful' helper applications are gonna be busy trying to load stuff but... I will wait and see.
Thanks, once more,
E.
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*****Long story short, this is a 64bit PC and I have 32bit Win8 running.
I don't really need any time off. :)
In the Device Manager can you double-click the "High Definition Audio Device" > Details, then choose "Hardware Ids" from the drop-down menu under "Property".
What is listed under "Value"?
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_0042&SUBSYS_103C0967&REV_1001
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_0042&SUBSYS_103C0967
