Mic in with onboard, sound out with X-fi?

Hen_Dawg

Hen_Dawg

Hen_Dawg

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Hi,

Basically one of my (several) problems with my X-fi Xtreme Music is the microphone stopping working. Either straight from boot or a bit later. Sometimes unplugging the mic and headphone jack sorts it but it often doesn't.

Someone wrote you may be able to work around this by enabling the on-board sound and using that for the microphone but keeping the X-fi to do all the sound out side of things.

So is this worth a try? Will it work? I'm totally willing to do it but fear the last thing I need is another set of sound drivers confusing Creative's even more

Thanks
 
First I enable the Azalia thingy in the BIOS, then I downloaded the Reaktek drivers from the Gigabyte website.

I then installed the Setup.exe in the main folder which was extracted and rebooted. I can't see the onboard in Device manager or Sounds and Audio devices.

I guess I need to install something else from what I downloaded. Please tell me which one/ones I need to install.
There is:
ChCfg.exe
SetCDfmt.exe

Then in WDM sub-folder:
Alcmtr.exe (event monitor)
AlcWzrd.exe (AlcWzrd application)
MicCal.exe (Audio microphone calibration)
RTHDCPL.exe (HD Audio Control panel)
RTCPL.exe (Audio Control panel)
RTLUpd.exe (driver update and remove)
SkyTel.exe (Voice Manager)
Soundman.exe (Sound manager)
plus couple of others

In MSHDQFE\Win2K_XP there is: kb888111xpsp2.exe

I'm confused. All I want is for the mic to work, with control to turn on mic boost. Help!
 
I didn't even realise you can have 2 sound cards working at the same time! I thought if you didn't disable the onboard sound neither will work?

My microphone also doesn't work with the extreme music will have a go at it later.
 
Have you tried installing the sound drivers by using the gigabte motherboard driver installation CD, rather than off the website? And though it sounds silly, after enabling the onboard sound in bios, did you then save and quit correctly?

Its the realtek HD audio manager that you want running. I have this at the same time as my prelude volume panel, and they co exist just fine both on device manager and in the windows volume mixer no probs. Use realtek mic for input, and auzentech for output over ventrillo and teamspeak for example just fine.
 
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I haven't tried the CD as it's well over a year old now so just went for the new stuff.

Gonna do that now, can't hurt

Edit: maybe it can hurt. Went to install off the CD and it gets half way and aborts with the warning:
Microsoft bus driver should be loaded in your system before installing Reaktek HD audio driver

Edit 2: Some googlewoogling found me this and the card is now recognised. Need to reboot to test
Bottom Line, after Q888111 installed I still needed to go into Device Manager, System Devices (at the bottom of the list) and look for the device with the yellow warning on it (Note - It wasn't the same icon as the Yellow ? for other unknown devices and it's important to look for it under System Devices). Find it, right click on it, and select "Update Driver".

I pointed it to the WDM folder where I had extracted the Realtek drivers and only at that time did it finally recognize the Microsoft UAA driver and allow the Sound Device to be installed correctly.
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Edit 3: I have my sound working but the mic is not yet. Feel like some TF2 so will try again another time
 
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Result. Got it all working! :)
Took a bit of playing and a wait for a microsoft security update to install itself to stop a DLL error but I'm all set up

There is no mic boost though :mad:

I can boost the output in ventrilo but that doesn't solve everything. Anything else I can do about it?
 
Hen_Dawg said:
Result. Got it all working! :)
Took a bit of playing and a wait for a microsoft security update to install itself to stop a DLL error but I'm all set up

There is no mic boost though :mad:

I can boost the output in ventrilo but that doesn't solve everything. Anything else I can do about it?
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What sound card do you have the MIC on?
I've seen a registry hack to make a mic boost on, and it seems to work on one of my creative cards in Vista.
It may be possible to do it for others.
 
The mic is going into the reaktek onboard soundcard and there are no options for the microphone at all. With it plugged into the X-fi I could use mic boost but the stupid card would stop working, hence this thread.

Would really like to know how boost it for things like in-game chat in TF2 etc.
 
This is going to harder to attempt in the registry as you have 2 cards, and it will depend on whether the reaktek is boostable.

Hmm you need to search your registry for boost and see what comes up.
The prob is, your going to have the bass boost and maybe the creatives boost, and we need to find what key is assigned to the realteck.

Start > run > type regedit and OK.
Then got to edit > find and type in boost. You'll have to keep hitting F3 to find next, but its prolly going to be the one at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet

See what you can find anyway, and just export and copy and paste here.

This is how it works on a creative with no boost option

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0007\Settings]
"MicBoost"=dword:00000000 <no boost

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0007\Settings]
"MicBoost"=dword:00000001 <boost on
 
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