Vista realtek sound driver's

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NforceSFF

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Hi guys

Having trouble with my sound card driver for a system ive built up basicly download the latest realtek vista drivers its gets around 75% installed then vista says that the driver isnt digital signed and might be spyware blah, i say ignore and its starts a circle of just asking me that question again. the only way to stop it is to deny it and installation completes but doesnt work obviously?? help

my system is a AOpen ez65 which i believe has onboard reaktek 5.1 sound, running vista ultimate

any help
 
ive had no problems with the realtek onboard audio on my an8 ultra, 32bit drivers from the realtek site worked fine and the 64bit version of vista automatically picked up the realtek drivers.
 
Hi,

I tried to install the Vista realtek driver for AC97 sound today. It completely screwed up my system, and for some reason interfered with my graphics settings. Vista kept saying rundll32 had been altered or something weird. Luckily I was able to use system restore.. So I'll have to wait a while until a proper driver is released which enables me to use quadrophonic sound.
 
During Beta testing the Vista O/S they said there will be incompatibilities with onboard sound which never reared. But as soon as MS release the retail versions I have heard nothing but problems. Ultimate 64 bit thinks the Realtek Audio is a Yamaha DS sound chip and Windows update cannot update the drivers the OS installed itself for the NVidia 7800GTX. One time I had so many Blue Screen erros I was beginning to call it Windows 98 MKII. On one occasion I decided to run a fault finder and start in safe mode with Networking and got the Vista_APO drivers from Realtek directly and so far I have never had the problem again. Windows Vista will still not update my Nvidia drivers. I downloaded the certified 97.46 drivers (WDDM) from Nvidia Directly and even though I have installed them Windows update continually tries to update the Video drivers with, guess what? Yes the 97.46 frivers and reports a failure everytime. There are still bugs in the system and Windows update had better get its act in order or users will rather update their driver software themselves than trust a second rate service like windows update. Windows Vista Ultimate 64 gives the most pain on Blue screen Page faults but then I am using it on a rather low end PC. Even though everything but the Memory is 5+ it rates my Ram as 1.7 . Anyway, try what I have donem, it may be DIY but at least you get a fully working Vista. A word of advice though turn the POWER Save functions off until your pc is fully functional.
Good Luck!
 
I fixed my vista problems by using onboard sound rather than my X-fi.

I let Vista install it automatically, found it no problem after I turned it on in the bios and booted into windows. I then installed the driver from the ECS website:

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Do...id=702&DetailName=Driver&DetailDesc=PN2-SLI2+ (V1.0) &CategoryID=1&MenuID=44&LanID=8

use at own risk etc etc, but I would suspect that all the realtek chips can use this driver :)
 
Different CODECS I am afraid. The MB I use for this test is a P5N32 SLI-Deluxe from ASUS Nforce4 Intel edition. The workaround is that the High end Audio output via Optical output as well as 5.1 Jack output to a surround system can work simitaneously on this MB. The ECS drivers support direct output/Input only. and are incompatible. It is based on the yamaha Direct Sound system, though uses no Yamaha components. This is where Vista has become confused in the HCL setup. Likewise for all Motherboards you have to find the drivers tailored to your system. If you have an ECS MB then use the ECS AC97 drivers. I suppose the Idea I am trying to get across is to be flexible and find out more than just what Vista Advisor tells you - It could cause you no end of trouble. But beware sytem setups can be more fragile than the security that surrounds them.
 
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