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Realtek SoundMAX Problems On Vista

Feb 2, 2007 4:14PM PST

I recently installed Vista Ultimate onto a blank hard drive and after installation installed all necessary sound,LAN drivers etc and I found that sound will stop working after listening to a song, untill you log out and log back in, the sound returns. Just wondering if anybody has these problems with this sound hardware

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vista sound
Feb 12, 2007 6:31AM PST

i'm having the same problem, after restart i loose my 5.1 configuration. any sugestions? anthonymasiello@aol.com

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Which Driver?
Feb 18, 2007 7:43PM PST

Hello,

Which driver are you using? One built into Vista or the one from the manufacturer?

My onboard sound card would not work with the Vista drivers.

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Realtek Sound Problems
Feb 20, 2007 2:15AM PST

Hello all,

I am also having a vista/realtek problem. I have found that the vista drivers refuse to give me anything except spdif, and while I can get audio from the headphone jacks while using the realtek drivers, I still can't get mic in. I haven't yet tested line in, but from the way that people seem to be having audio problems I don;t have much faith in it either.

I'll post back if I find anything.

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Me too
Feb 27, 2007 12:20PM PST

I am also having the problem. I just uninstalled the device and restarted my computer to have it reinstalled. Hopefully that will help. I am going to have to open my case to find out what type of motherboard I have to download the manufacturer's drivers.

Is anyone having the problem where MP3's will stop playing also? I don't mean you can't hear anything, I mean they wont play. The only audio player I have on my computer is MediaPlayer. After my computer sits idle for awhile, not sure how long exactly, the MP3's just won't play. The seek bar sits at the beginning and won't move. Any ideas on that one!? I restored my computer thinking it was Winamp or MediaMonkey. After the restore the same thing happened without installing Winamp or MediaMonkey. Could that be related to the sound card?

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Oh yeah!
Feb 27, 2007 12:41PM PST

If you really don't want to log off or restart, I found a way to "refresh" the card if you will.

1. Right click on the speaker icon on your system tray and choose "playback devices".
2. Highlight "Speakers" and click properties.
3. Click on the Advanced tab
4. Change from CD quality to DVD quality and click test. It will give you a warning that it is in use, just click yes.

If it is on DVD Quality already, just change it to CD quality.

My fiance was going through a shockwave tutorial video that changed audio tracks often. Every time the track changed, the sound would stop working. I told her to just keep changing between CD quality and DVD quality to turn it back on. (She didn't like that answer!)

I talked her into getting this as a resolution:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102002