Drivers

bennyboy2606 · 4 Jun 2008 at 17:03

Well, my mate has just updated to Vista Ultimate 64. And he has built in speakers on his monitor, and apprantly there is no driver for the monitors in Vista.

So, he was wondering, if he brought external plug in speakers for his PC, would he be ok yeah?

Regards
Ben

EDIT: Creative diagnostics gives:
06/04/s008 07:31:46PM Windows Multimedia Tests Fail Wave out device: SB X-Fi Audio [8C00]

Wave out device: SB X-Fi Audio [8C00]

Midi out device: SB X-Fi Synth A [8C00]

Pilky01 · 4 Jun 2008 at 17:10

Should be, i bought some creative speakers with vista ultimate 64 and they were just plug and play, no drivers needed

Delvis · 4 Jun 2008 at 17:16

If he's buying speakers...they should have drivers included in all honesty.

But most speakers dont need specific drivers to actually work...just sound card drivers normally.

fobose · 4 Jun 2008 at 17:28

bennyboy2606 said:
Well, my mate has just updated to Vista Ultimate 64. And he has built in speakers on his monitor, and apprantly there is no driver for the monitors in Vista.

So, he was wondering, if he brought external plug in speakers for his PC, would he be ok yeah?

Regards
Ben

You doesn't need drivers for the monitors speakers. He will need drivers for the soundcard they plug in too.

bennyboy2606 · 4 Jun 2008 at 19:31

UPDATE: Headphones didn't work, could it be his sound card?

Delvis · 4 Jun 2008 at 20:22

I presume you plugged them into the motherboard ports and not ones on the monitor or something...

But I would check the sound card / onboard sounds.

Are they definitely installed etc? As Vista normally just puts a standard driver on a lot of things.

RJC · 4 Jun 2008 at 20:24

bennyboy2606 said:
UPDATE: Headphones didn't work, could it be his sound card?

Yes, daft question, has he dowloaded the latest drivers from the manufacturer.

Rob

BassPwr · 5 Jun 2008 at 05:27

Go to http://support.creative.com to download the latest driver for your sound card, which will support vista 64 bit.

To get sound to come out of the monitor speakers or headphone socket you will need to get sound from your pc sound card line out to the monitor and this should be in the form of a sound input (line in) on the back of your monitor and you will need the required audio cable to do this.

good luck

memyselfandi · 5 Jun 2008 at 06:59

bennyboy2606 said:
Well, my mate has just updated to Vista Ultimate 64. And he has built in speakers on his monitor, and apprantly there is no driver for the monitors in Vista.

So, he was wondering, if he brought external plug in speakers for his PC, would he be ok yeah?

Regards
Ben

EDIT: Creative diagnostics gives:
06/04/s008 07:31:46PM Windows Multimedia Tests Fail Wave out device: SB X-Fi Audio [8C00]

Wave out device: SB X-Fi Audio [8C00]

Midi out device: SB X-Fi Synth A [8C00]

No he wouldn't be ok.

His problem appears to be more likely to be sound card driver related instead of speaker related, (speakers do not tend to need drivers), so is likely to happen with any speakers.

Get him to download the correct soundcard drivers as above.