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**johngalt** · 08-15-2008

Quote: Originally Posted by lcdsantos

I have a PC with a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R (rev. 1.x) mobo (GIGABYTE - Product - Motherboard - Overview - GA-P35C-DS3R (rev. 1.x)). It comes with a on board Realtek ALC889A sound chipset. I have installed the latest sound driver from Gigabyte (GIGABYTE - Support - Motherboard - Driver - GA-P35C-DS3R (rev. 1.x)) but I have a weird case... The Windows events sounds are not working... When Vista starts, when I increase the sound using slide sound systray control, when some clip plays on a youTube clip... No sound! But when I use, for example aimp2 music player, or when I do the realtek audio manager sound test... I got the sound!!! I´m not sure, but I think the problem started after the SP1 upgrade. Best regards, Luis Santos

Quote: Originally Posted by dmex

Hi lcdsantos,

If you can hear sound that means the drivers are correctly installed and working, so thats not the problem...I guess you may have forgot to set the correct 'default' device for sound to use the correct output for other applications

Control Panel\ Sound\ Playback-Tab
Right-Click the Audio Device and click 'Set As Default'

Sometimes Windows will automatically set the device as 'Digital Output' and require you to set 'Speakers' as the default device, It might also help to use the 'test' option located there to determine the correct output device and then set that one as 'default'

Steven

Hmmm - that would make sense but it still concerns me that AIMP will play music.....

08-15-2008	#17 (permalink)
johngalt Vista Ultimate x64 MAK, OpenSolaris 5, Gentoo 2008.1.... 3,848 posts	Re: No "Windows" sound in Vista Business 32 SP1 Quote: Originally Posted by lcdsantos I have a PC with a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R (rev. 1.x) mobo (GIGABYTE - Product - Motherboard - Overview - GA-P35C-DS3R (rev. 1.x)). It comes with a on board Realtek ALC889A sound chipset. I have installed the latest sound driver from Gigabyte (GIGABYTE - Support - Motherboard - Driver - GA-P35C-DS3R (rev. 1.x)) but I have a weird case... The Windows events sounds are not working... When Vista starts, when I increase the sound using slide sound systray control, when some clip plays on a youTube clip... No sound! But when I use, for example aimp2 music player, or when I do the realtek audio manager sound test... I got the sound!!! I´m not sure, but I think the problem started after the SP1 upgrade. Best regards, Luis Santos Quote: Originally Posted by dmex Hi lcdsantos, If you can hear sound that means the drivers are correctly installed and working, so thats not the problem...I guess you may have forgot to set the correct 'default' device for sound to use the correct output for other applications Control Panel\ Sound\ Playback-Tab Right-Click the Audio Device and click 'Set As Default' Sometimes Windows will automatically set the device as 'Digital Output' and require you to set 'Speakers' as the default device, It might also help to use the 'test' option located there to determine the correct output device and then set that one as 'default' Steven Hmmm - that would make sense but it still concerns me that AIMP will play music.....
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