AC97 vista problem

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Tony

Hi,
I experience major problems with getting a AC 97 system up and running under
Vista.
I have a Gigabyte sinxp1394 Mobo with AC97 chipset and Vista ultimate. I
upgraded the driver with the realtek 6.0.6243 version I downloaded from
Realtek.

Recording turned out to be impossible in an erratic way. Nor the build in
sound recorder, The Microsoft media 9 encoder or Adobe Audigy see the mixer.

After letting Windows sort out a new driver Windows installed the 5.0.6150
version of a Microsoft distributed Realtek driver.
Now the standard sound recorder is able to see the stereo mixer I appointed
as default recording device, but the Microsoft Media encoder does not.
Turning on the Pin line onto the mixer from the encoder does not help.
When I try to start the mixer from the encoder it can't find sndvol.exe.
The mixer is set to 16 bit 44.1 KHz stereo as is the recording default. It
made sense to me to use the same settings.
Kind regards
Tony Thijs
Oriolus
 
Hi, Tony.

When Vista Setup finished installing Vista Ultimate x64 on my computer (EPoX
MF570sli mobo) with onboard Realtek AC'97 last December, I had no sound.
But I visited Windows Update and accepted the driver it offered. Within a
few minutes of the Windows installation, my sound was working and has given
me no problems since. I'm neither audiophile nor gamer, so my 2 little
speakers plus woofer suit me just fine.

Device Manager says my sound device is the High Definition Audio Device,
from Microsoft, Driver Version 6.0.6000.16386, dated 6/21/06.

Early in the Vista beta, I downloaded software from Realtek; these provided
both drivers and additional features for the sound hardware.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta in Vista Ultimate x64)
 
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