Realtek HD Audio with no sound. Solved No sound through stereo mix Realtek HD Audio; solved Realtek HD Audio installed but no sound (only static crackling noise). Realtek HD audio output not working. Tags: Realtek; Audio; Last response: November 27, 2016 12:43 AM in Audio. Solved Realtek HD Audio No 5.1 option solution.
I think I posted this on the wrong board earlier, so apologies for that. Ka Grief Pedigree Zip more. I'm having a few problems with a fresh install of Windows Vista Ultimate. I have an ASRock ALive-SATA-GBLAN motherboard, that comes with Realtek HD Audio built in, but Vista seems to be having some problems using it. In the device manager, my card comes under 'High Defintion Audio Controller', and Vista tells me that the device cannot start (code 10) I've tried downloading the latest soundcard drivers for Vista, from both ASRock and Realtek's website, but to no avail.
I've even used the add hardware wizard manually, (adding the built in Realtek HD Audio drivers), but even though it adds another device to the device manager, it has the same error message (the device cannot start), and I still have no sound. I've even tried uninstalling one of the drivers just in case the two devices are clashing, but it's stll done nothing. I've also encountered a number of BSOD's while trying to run media centre. I'm presuming the two are somehow linked. Thanks in advance for all the replies. Ian, I found the following post on another forum. I have no idea what your issue is, but the following comments could provide a starting point, quote: Some background: HD Audio is a new standard used in Vista.
It's actually has a really cool feature set, and once the software folks start adopting it you'll get really low latency (Cakewalk Sonar 6.2 is doing it and seeing sub 5 ms latency). HD Audio actually came out of a conference I regularly attend (Project BarBQ) hosted by the famous Fat Man (game composer extraordinaire.
One of the key complaints from Windows users people is that they have to find drivers on the for their hardware when they install a new system, add to an existing, and sometimes even upgrade (although that seems to be less of an issue). What we did in Vista was create a 'HD Audio class' driver that should work without any additional effort. To work properly, the configuration of the audio hardware needs to be set somewhere. In XP, this was done as part of the driver installation process, but it was riddled with problems (you often had to find a driver that was specific to your machine). In Vista this information remains on the mainboard (in the BIOS) so that you won't need it. Many of the issues we see right now are because our mainboards built before Vista was available for testing didn't didn't define these settings in the BIOS correctly. In many cases you can update the BIOS (which can be a scary thing - follow the instructions carefully and if in doubt, ask for clarifcation).