Vista & on-board sound

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Have just installed Vista onto a new machine based on a Gigabyte P35-DS3L motherboard.

Vista has detected the on-board sound and installed its own drivers for it which is working fine.

Now the problem I have is that I don't have any advanced control over the sound hardware, just a simple volume control. I'm reluctant to download the audio drivers from Gigabyte's site as they're rather old and I'd much rather use Vista's own drivers as robustness is a priority here. All I want is the ability to control the audio hardware in a bit more detail than I currently have, such as the control you get when you install a discrete sound card.

What's best to do here? Do I have no choice other than to install the older drivers to get more control over the audio?
 
The latest drivers for the ALC888 chipset used on that mobo are available on Realtek's site here.

What confuses me is that you are saying the drivers are old on gigabyte's site, when they were last updated 2008/03/07? Unless you are refering to the UAA MS driver...
 
Hi, think I was getting confused - must have seen the UAA driver before - think I'll install those ones from the Gigabyte site :)
 
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