<![CDATA[Vista Forums - Sound & Audio]]> http://www.vistax64.com/ en Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:47:12 GMT vBulletin 15 http://www.vistax64.com/images/styles/vista/misc/rss.jpg <![CDATA[Vista Forums - Sound & Audio]]> http://www.vistax64.com/ No sound http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/261082-no-sound.html Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:04:06 GMT Hey guys.

I am trying to troubleshoot a sound issue with a Vista Home Basic machine.

I can't really give you all the MOBO specs etc because I am not currently in front of the machine. I can however confirm that it is using a Realtek chipset and is configured using the Realtek Sound Manager software.

I am really just wanting to use basic sound (i.e. just speaker, not 5.1, 7.1 etc).

I am trying to make use of an old stereo system by using a 3.5mm aux jack to dual RCA (white and red) plugs.

I can get sound when I plug the aux jack into the front earphones port but I cannot get sound when I try and use the analogue audio out (lime green) port at the rear of the machine. Vista states that it is working correctly and has a tick next to the speakers but no sound is produced by the speakers.

The MOBO has the following available audio connectors:

Analogue = Mic in (Pink) Audio in (light blue) Audio out (lime green)

Centre Speaker (Orange) Rear Surround (Black) Mid Surround (Grey)

Digital = 1x SPDIF

You may ask at this point, why not just use the front headphones jack? Well, the problem is that it seems to be very sensitive in that Vista keeps reporting that the jack is cycling between a connected and disconnected state.

I also cannot use the SPDIF, as the old stereo only supports aux left and right RCA.

Also, when I try and get one of the rear ports to work, I have made sure that nothing is connected to the sound ports at the front as I know that this can cause problems.

When I plug in the 3.5mm jack into the green port, the Realtek sound manager kicks in and says that "a jack as been connected". I then confirm that I have infact connected the jack to the rear audio out port. I then follow the steps in the wizard but am not able to get sound.

I made sure that I used the most basic settings (i.e. speakers and not 5.1 etc).

I even tried the grey, black and orange ports (even though I know they are used for surround sound setups) and still no luck.

One interesting setting I did notice was that in Winamp, I had to select the "allow mono speaker" setting to have it play sound through the front headphones port.

However, when I was configuring the rear green port in the Realtex Sound Manager software, there was no mono option. There was only stereo, 5.1, 7.1 and some quad....... thing.

Any ideas guys on how to get the rear green port working?

I am wondering if it has something to with a connector on the MOBO. But as I said, Vista and Realtek manager seem to report that all is well.

My thanks in advance. ]]> Marky000 http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/261082-no-sound.html Lost my sound. http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/261017-lost-my-sound.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:02:13 GMT Ok, I had my laptop connected to my TV via HDMI, the sound wasn't playing through the TV speakers though only the laptop. So in trying to remedy this I right clicked on the sound icon in my system tray went to playback devices and inadvertently disabled my laptop speakers, and now they dont even appear as an option anymore. Please help. ]]> King112585 http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/261017-lost-my-sound.html MicBoost http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/261016-micboost.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:35:43 GMT MicBoost doesn't seem to exist anywhere. I've searched for it in regedit and turned up nothing, and I can't get the custom tab in properties to come up.

The sound quality is also terrible, not sure how to go about improving it. Theres a constant static in the background when I speak, always. I'm plenty comprehensible there's just that annoying sound in my background over ventrilo and I'm aiming to kill that if possible, could just be the mic. (Its a logitech)

My computer is setup with two analog ports, one in the front and one in the back. Sometime back I plugged the mic into the front and have since been unable to get it to work in the rear. I either get no sound, or voice doesn't work. I've tried disconnecting the front completely, and a number of other things to no avail. This isn't so much the real problem though, mostly interested in getting micboost working and perhaps improving quality with any know how you guys provide. Or it could be the problem, that the front port is messed up somehow.

I attached my comp's Dxdiag, dunno if it'll help.
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]]> Varks http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/261016-micboost.html No Sound When Headphones Unplugged http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/261000-no-sound-when-headphones-unplugged.html Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:33:53 GMT I'm running Windows Vista Basic on an HP Compaq laptop. When I unplug my headphones, I can't get audio back in my internal speakers. The sound returns when I restart my computer, but it should automatically switch back after unplugging the headphones. How can I make sure it does that? ]]> akatami http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/261000-no-sound-when-headphones-unplugged.html <![CDATA['no audio output device installed' but more]]> http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/260736-no-audio-output-device-installed-but-more.html Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:04:17 GMT so i have a older hp pavillion that had xp on it and after geting a mean viris i had to reboot the os so i figured id upgrade a bit to vista alls... so i have a older hp pavillion that had xp on it and after geting a mean viris i had to reboot the os so i figured id upgrade a bit to vista alls good exsept the 'no audio output device installd' now i want on line and saw this is a common problem and there are sulutions but when i go to 'device manager' and look for the 'sound and game controler' tab its not there so if someone could help id be greatly appreceated so i dont turn to one of those vista haters lol
peace
dan ]]> thedboy49 http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/260736-no-audio-output-device-installed-but-more.html no sound on flash player (on youtube) using any browsers http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/260713-no-sound-flash-player-youtube-using-any-browsers.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:23:12 GMT Hello there, I have no sound on flash player over the browsers. The sound works perfectly fine when I am playing any movies or mp3 with any players... Hello there,
I have no sound on flash player over the browsers. The sound works perfectly fine when I am playing any movies or mp3 with any players such as real player, Windows media player, VLC, core player and so on. I had the latest version of flash player which was working just fine in all browsers before.

I was doing some housekeeping on my laptop and I might have deleted some registries or something by mistake, not 100% sure though.

same day I noticed I had problem hearing youtube while the video part is playing just fine and the microphone settings of the flash player is showing activities.

I tries tons of things such as uninstalling - reinstalling different versions of flash players. uninstalling -reinstalling codec packs, adding things to the registry which comes with different names like youtubefix.reg or missing.reg, trying different browsers, and unfortunately so far none of them worked for me.

One thing weird I have noticed (and I'd like someone explain it to me) is that as soon as I activated the guest user on my laptop and I logged in as the guest user, I was able to hear voice over the flash. I am assuming that there is nothing wrong with the flash player. So I thought maybe I should just create another user account and transfer my file and documents to that user account. I got back to work and I did created a new USER as an admin and logged in to try it before transferring my folders and documents. Here is the freaky part, there was no voice agian via the flash player. I tried again and again by logging off and in back to different user accounts, non of them was working except for the GUEST one.
I know Guest user is an standard user. so I made a new standard user and to my surprise , when logged in and it worked again.
I thought lets experience this again, differently. I downgraded one of my new admin users I had to a standard one and upgraded one of the newly created standard USER to have the admin power.
I then logged in to each of them, and noticed that I have voice via flash player when logging as of a standard user and shockingly no voice when logging in with an admin USER account.
I tried it again a few times with downgrade or upgrading the type of users and all was the same : no voice via flash player when logging in as an admin USER.

I know I can fix this by reinstalling the windows again, but I hope some one with insight to user profiles and registry in vista can help me find a quicker way to fix.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Coolie ]]> coolluck http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/260713-no-sound-flash-player-youtube-using-any-browsers.html No sound but everything seems to be working http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/260700-no-sound-but-everything-seems-working.html Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:55:59 GMT Back in June I installed Vista onto my machine (prior to this I ran xp for 3 years and the sound worked). I was ok with the sound not working since I... Back in June I installed Vista onto my machine (prior to this I ran xp for 3 years and the sound worked). I was ok with the sound not working since I had a bluetooth headset which worked fine...It's starting to get annoying now.

I have a gigabyte motherboard with AC'97 (ALC850 codec) on board sound card. The driver is up to date. I have the volume icon, and it shows my speakers in the play back device section. When I play an audio file, the green bar lights up on the speaker icon.

I can't find the thread now but I did try the suggestion of opening up the playback devices, right clicking in an empty area and showing all disabled devices...there wasn't any devices hidden.

Hopefully I provided enough information, if not please ask. I really don't want to buy a sound card but it's looking like I might not have a choice.

Thanks,
Jesse ]]> jesse6384 http://www.vistax64.com/sound-audio/260700-no-sound-but-everything-seems-working.html