RooNiL WasLiB said:
Hi Everybody, so I'll go straight to the point lol, I have sound problems
with my laptop, the sound card is a realtek high definition audio and I run
vista 32 bit.
I've never had this kind of problem with sound before everything worked fine
(for more than a year), the drivers are installed and windows says everything
is good (though I don't have any sound) but all the sound realted
applications didn't detect an audio device.
I tried to re-install drivers, update them.... nothing happened.
So if someone knows a solution, please help, thank you.
Courtsey of "dallasp" in a post dated 9-13-2009:
"I have a Toshiba 6960 Laptop, Realtek High Definition audio device,
Vista Home Premium.
The audio went out for unknown reasons. Vista Home Premium was trying
to reinstall the audio driver after reboot. This laptop has Realtek HD
audio hardware and drivers.
First of all, I went to the realtek.com site to download the HD audio
drivers. These are more recent than Toshiba had on their site, and the
Windows 7 was bundled with the Vista drivers... they appear to be
32/64bit versions in the same file.
go here:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/DOWNLOADS/
1. click the "High Definition Audio Codecs (Software)" link (center of
page).
2. check the "I accept to the above" check-box.
3. find the audio driver that you need - I used the option entitled
"Vista, Windows7 Driver(32/64 bits) Driver only (Executable file)".
I chose the Executable file because I didn't want to bother
un-zipping, and finding an installer in a mess of files. - it is a
cleaner/easier option.
4. click the "GO" under the download area on the right side.
I have found that all of the options will be pretty slow, so if it
is being slow, just wait for it to download (2-5 mins maybe).
5. now, follow my directions below.
With the correct drivers at hand, this is what I did to fix my audio to
make it work again:
1. click the "Start" button, and then right-click on the "Computer"
menu item (on the right side of the start menu).
2. go to "Properties"
3. click "Device Manager" on the left of the properties window (under
Tasks).
4. go to the audio device located within the "Sound, video and game
controllers" option - mine is called "Realtek High Definition Audio"
5. you can right-click the audio device - "Realtek High Definition
Audio" and then click "Uninstall" - this will remove it from the system
in order to install the new drivers.
*** DO NOT RESTART the machine *** this will allow Vista to install
some generic driver automatically - I too was having trouble disabling
that from happening.
That's when I decided to NOT to reboot in between, and just try to
squeeze new drivers in with out the reboot.
6. when the drivers have been uninstalled you shouldn't have the device
in the "device manager" anymore.
7. now, reinstall the driver by using the file you downloaded from
Realtek.
8. this should prompt for a RESTART when it has completed.
9. reboot the computer, and the audio should now work.... mine worked
at startup - vista made the login chime. I tried all sorts of differnet
options in this forum and on the web, so I wanted to post my own
solution.
I hope this helps others with Vista/Toshiba audio problems.
At the time if writing this, I have rebooted a few times, and tried the
audio out along the way. I will repost if my audio cuts out again, or if
anything else weird happens with this Toshiba laptop.
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Apparently the Realtek HD Audio drivers are not very user friendly.
