Fiery
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Gday fellas
I am trying to isolate a problem on my husbands desktop. His use of a PC is basic, surfing, watching youtube and emails, so when I built the tower for him I went with onboard sound. Namely static in sound via headset. He has at the moment been using one of my USB headsets, which even when turned up to full sound is barely a whisper.
So I have tried my analogue headset via USB sound card. Volume is better, but on some youtube videos it is quiet and has a static sound.
On my desktop I can play and hear the exact same youtube clearly.
To date I have tried :-
1. Swapping USB Ports
2. Gone off to the Gigabyte website and downloaded the latest audio drivers.
This is where I am running into trouble, I uninstall the microsoft drivers, install the Gigabye Sound Drivers, reboot and Vista reinstalls its own drivers back on.
I have been in GPEDIT.MSC ,enabled , disabled Device Installation, and also enabled and disabled Driver Installation, I have also turned off Windows Updates to try and install the Gigabyte Sound.
Upon every reboot Windows is now saying it cannot find the drivers at all, but starts to install the windows audio drivers.
So I have reset everything back, and just let windows TAKE OVER!
. It is annoying the crap out of me that I cannot install the drivers from the mobo's website.
Any ideas as to how to get windows to back off? He is a tight ass when it comes to spending money on a PC, and I don't see any way around the problem other than installing a Sound Card, which I am not going to buy him and I know damn well he won't.
I am trying to isolate a problem on my husbands desktop. His use of a PC is basic, surfing, watching youtube and emails, so when I built the tower for him I went with onboard sound. Namely static in sound via headset. He has at the moment been using one of my USB headsets, which even when turned up to full sound is barely a whisper.
So I have tried my analogue headset via USB sound card. Volume is better, but on some youtube videos it is quiet and has a static sound.
On my desktop I can play and hear the exact same youtube clearly.
To date I have tried :-
1. Swapping USB Ports
2. Gone off to the Gigabyte website and downloaded the latest audio drivers.
This is where I am running into trouble, I uninstall the microsoft drivers, install the Gigabye Sound Drivers, reboot and Vista reinstalls its own drivers back on.
I have been in GPEDIT.MSC ,enabled , disabled Device Installation, and also enabled and disabled Driver Installation, I have also turned off Windows Updates to try and install the Gigabyte Sound.
Upon every reboot Windows is now saying it cannot find the drivers at all, but starts to install the windows audio drivers.
So I have reset everything back, and just let windows TAKE OVER!
. It is annoying the crap out of me that I cannot install the drivers from the mobo's website.Any ideas as to how to get windows to back off? He is a tight ass when it comes to spending money on a PC, and I don't see any way around the problem other than installing a Sound Card, which I am not going to buy him and I know damn well he won't.
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My Computer
System One
-
- Manufacturer/Model
- Homebuilt
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II x 4 965
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P
- Memory
- 4GB DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 750 TI
- Sound Card
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Phillips 19"
- Screen Resolution
- 1280 x 1024
- Hard Drives
- 1 x 128GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
1 x 1TB Sata
1 x 160GB IDE
1 x 2Tb WD External My Book Elite
1 x 1TB WD External My Book Elite
1 x 4TB WD External My Book
- PSU
- Thermaltake 850W XT
- Case
- Coolermaster Storm Sniper Black Edition
- Cooling
- AC-ALPINE-64PRO ARTIC COOLING
- Keyboard
- 12 year old Compaq, cant see any of the letters anymore :)
- Mouse
- Microflacid Sterile
- Internet Speed
- ADSL2+
- Other Info
- My husband and I divorced over religious differences.. He thought he was God and I didn't.