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| Hi all,
ive just installed vista today, its up and running ok on my pc. Im using a DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D motherboard.
By default Vista installed the default motherboard sound drivers, i removed these in order to use the latest realtek vista ones.
However after configuring it all for my surround sound speaker setup, it doesnt seem to run at full 5.1, sounds more like 2.1 and the sub woofer does not work.
The sub will output when you test the surround through vista but not when playing any mp3's.
I have tried the original driver that vista installed too with the same problem.
I guess its a problem with Realtek's driver, just wondering if anyone had the same issue?
Cheers! 
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| i installed vista and it didn't detect my sound card, realtek ac97. i have an ecs motherboard. what i did is plop the motherboard cd in the dvd drive, wait for the pc to detect the driver and it's done. sound works nicely.
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| alex350r (1/31/2007)
Hi all, ive just installed vista today, its up and running ok on my pc. Im using a DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D motherboard. By default Vista installed the default motherboard sound drivers, i removed these in order to use the latest realtek vista ones. However after configuring it all for my surround sound speaker setup, it doesnt seem to run at full 5.1, sounds more like 2.1 and the sub woofer does not work. The sub will output when you test the surround through vista but not when playing any mp3's. I have tried the original driver that vista installed too with the same problem. I guess its a problem with Realtek's driver, just wondering if anyone had the same issue? Cheers! Alex Man...I must tell you that i have the same motherboard and i also have a sound problem. Everything works fine after aprox. 5-15min. of listening. After that, the sound crashes (i hear like from an old radio with buzzes). |
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| Since mp3s are only 2-channel, what you're attempting to do is upmix the 2-channel sound into 5.1 channel sound. You get all the channels in the test because it is forcing the upmixing as a byproduct of the test.
There's an option buried in the details of the Sound features in control panel that sets multichannel sound. If you go through the options, you'll find something about speaker spread, or sound spread, or something similar. It's a box you check. It's somewhere in the Advanced features.
Sorry I can't be more specific, but I'm no longer using onboard sound, so I don't have the same control panel screens.
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| I have a brand new Dell 530 inspiron with a gig of Ram, 2Ghz Intel Core duo.
Unfortunately, it also has Realtek audio on the motherboard.....
What is it about Audio drivers on Vista that is sooooo mysterious?
Realtek, in broken, English, say that theirs is passed by Microsoft, and essentially evade all questions; and won't state a date when their driver WILL run with - for example - Cakewalk's Sonar 6.22.
Why is it that drivers that CLAIM to be Vista -compliant, don't work with some software? Especially when that software ALSO claims to be Vista-compliant.......
You ask the driver makers, they say it's the software application supplier's fault and slam the door.
You ask the software application supplier, and they say that it's the driver's fault....
Microsoft, meanwhile, say very little.
And I haven't heard Dell excuse themselves for designing in chips that have part-functional drivers!
This whole thing looks like a Customer Relation joke to me.
Sir Clive Sinclair had fewer problems with his Spectrum...........
But what would I know?
... I'm just the mug who bought a system because it had all the right stickers on it from Microsoft and Dell.
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| Good job pharmacists don't treat their Customers the same way. After all, aspirin will fix a headache, some of the time. Strychnine will fix it, permanently, all of the time.....
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| If it aint broke, tweak it until it is, then upgrade.
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| Er,
the whole purpose of a PC is to allow ordinary consumers to make use of them. Drivers reputedly screen the consumer from all the difficult bits he/she doesn't want or need to know about. Few astronauts are rocket scientists.....but they need and use rockets.
Products (add-ins, applications, hardware and OS's) are sold on that basis.
Seems to me that the whole process is a house of cards (pci or otherwise) and due to suffer the wind of change via a backlash of consumer discontent.
No-one seems to be able to tell me why (for example) Sonar refuses to work.
Plenty tell me that the solution is to disable my on-board HD Audio and buy an add-in (PCI or USB) card.
None of them seems able to guarantee to me that any particular one will work, with EVERYTHING that I might choose to use, that is labelled "Vista Compliant"!
- if they could, then surely that would confirm that they understand why my current configuration WON'T work!!!
Experts?
I dohn fink so.
Maybe what we need is (a la Intel in the 90's) a consumer Board of Advisors to affirm (or deny) all applications for an "Approved Compliant" sticker.
Want the sticker? SHOW ME the goods arer fully functional.
I've basically been ripped off by MBA-wielding, powerpoint-presentation-happy new-era MBA's who haven't forgotten how to satisfy consumer demand.... THEY NEVER UNDERSTOOD IT OR CARED ABOUT IT IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!
Vista audio compliant?
HOGWASH.
Botched to make it work SOME of the time?
Oh the truth doth hurt.....
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