Delete the present driver from the system,go back to the download site and read the instructions and see what version of WIn95 the drivers was built for A or B,this may be a compatibility issue.
That's the model number for your graphics card - If you want sound from your graphics card you need to use the HDMI output and have speakers in your monitor or TV. The Sound Blaster is the external USB one right? Since USB can have it's own problems let's start by disconnecting the Sound Blaster at least until you are able to install the integrated Audio drivers. Verify that Realtek HD Audio is not disabled in BIOS.
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'All the drivers that are attempted to be installed are all corrupt and will not work.' Where did you get the drivers for the Realtek HD audio (assuming the motherboard uses Realtek - most do). The best place to get them is from the mfg's weg site. If the driver you have is corrupt download it again. If there is a Realtek High Definition Audio driver installed and listed in Programs and Features uninstall that driver and, after rebooting, install the new downloaded driver. If you continue having a problem try installing from Safe Mode or Clean Boot. Upon start up I hit F2 to enter the BIOS menu.
I have verified that the HD audio control option is enabled. The drivers that are installed are coming from the windows update its self. I attempted to uninstall ever driver that says HD audio or REALTEK HD audio and restart the computer but it keeps installing corrupt drivers. I will attempt to go to the mfg website and try those drivers there. I think the main issue im having is that my system is not recognizing a playback device in the system.
Is this simply because of the corrupt drivers? Setup Windows updates so it only informs you of the updates and does not install them automatically. I'm not sure what audio drivers Windows updates is installing.
If it's not the Realtek drivers it may only be a generic Windows audio driver, which is OK to have. Are you getting an error message that specifies a problem with corrupt drivers, or just assuming this to be the case? If you have not been able to install the downloaded drivers and there are no Realtek drivers listed in Programs and Features, or you have uninstalled them, then there are no corrupt drivers installed. Windows will not recognise the Realtek, or Creative audio if no drivers are installed. I'm not sure, but think Windows generic drivers should still be able to produce sound without Realtek active. Under the device manager selection, under sound i have 5 icons that all say 'High Definition Audio Device' with a speaker icon to the left with a yellow exclamation point symbol indicating an issue with the item. After i right click and go to properties the above error message is what is displayed in the message box.
When i select the option to Update Driver Software it notifies me that the most up to date driver and been installed in my system. So what should my next step be after know this information? Thank you for taking your time to try and help me by the way i have spent hours trying to figure this out. As you have not been able to install either the Creative or Realtek drivers, and all the Audio options are flagged in Device Manager I would try uninstalling all the options in the list. If the Creative or Realtek drivers did install, but are not functioning then I would uninstall them via Programs and Features and uninstall the others via Device Manager. There is are also two High Defenition Audio Controller listed in System Devices that uses the same driver.
I would think they will also uninstall when you uninstall the Microsoft HD audio from Sound. If not and they are also flagged I would uninstall them too. Leave your Creative Audio card unattached to the PC - Before rebooting via the Start button (or Windows prompt that may come after uninstalling) disconnect from the internet. After re-booting Windows should re-install it's generic HD Audio driver. Verify your speakers - stereo or front are plugged into the green output - At this point there should only be only one audio device.
Microsoft HD Audio ( in Properties mfg = Microsoft). If Device Manager says the device is working properly then you should be good to go with installing the Realtek HD Audio drivers you downloaded from the motherboard mfg's site. If device manager still flags your audio, well, I don't know. I would be inclined to read more forums, wait for more ideas here, or boot with my Windows disk run a 'repair' reinstall. Btw - My current Microsoft HD audio driver is version 6.1.7601.17514. Well i have followed every step and piece of advice that you have given me with no luck. I'm clueless as to what the issue could be and think i am going to have to give in and take my computer to a repair shop and see if they can fix it.
I will however post the results and the solution to the problem, if i ever happen to come across one. My uneducated synopsis?
Something must have gone wrong during the build of this computer to where the audio is available all together. What reason could there be for my system not even acknowledging that i have an audio out put device where the mainboard clearly comes with a default audio out option AND i purchased an additional external sound card. NONE of the drivers will install correctly, even from the MSI website directly. Not only that no matter what i do the system, once again will not recognize an auto output device. Some step was missed, or something is not connected correctly. Ill let you know what my outcome is so that in the off chance that some poor soul is cursed with this same dilemma that they may find an answer quicker than i do and save a huge headache.
OK - I'll be interested in hearing what the problem was, as will others, no doubt. One more thing. If you are connecting the Creative card via the front panel USB have you verified that USB is working by connecting another device to it, or by connecting the Creative card to a back panel USB? I would think it is something to do with Windows though if the Creative drivers won't install, and with that in mind you may save some money doing a 'repair' reinstall of Windows. It's a fairly painless procedure. 'a lot of money that i didnt need to spend if i would have just had a genuine copy of windows to begin with.
' The secrets out eh! You didn't get a genuine OEM disk when you bought the parts for the machine. ' Bad boy, bad boy, what ya gonna do, what you gonna do when they come for you':D I hope the repair man gave you the disk and key, so you can do repairs yourself in future. Anyway - lesson learned and your off and running.
Have fun, mate. Btw - I have a similar story. I was going to build a new machine but came across a machine from a young punk;) who had installed dodgy Win7 Ultimate. I asked him why he had Ultimate when he didn't need it and his response was he just liked to have the best of everything. Then he started humming and hawing when I asked where the disk was as we packed up the machine, so I knew it was bogus. Not to worry though as I wasn't going to use Ultimate anyway because I wanted to image my old Win7 Home Premium to the new machine to make life easy ( didn't want to reinstall over 100 games and other software), so I bought an genuine OEM disk on the way home just for the new key. Still saved around $300- on a three month old machine, + an MS X6 keyboard and flash mouse pad as extras, so I'm not complaining (loudly):D.
I've added an Intensity Pro to my 3.2 octacore. I tried to install the drivers from the included DVD, but it said that newer drivers already exist on my system (probably my HDLink drivers). So I downloaded the most recent driver from the BMD site, 3.1.2 I think. It asks to restart to finish installation, but then the Mac gets stuck on an empty blue screen on startup.
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If I restart again by force, I can get the card to output analog video, but Log and Capture in FCP, and the capture tool installed both show a black screen when trying to capture HDMI (the capture settings match my source, and the BMD tool in System Prefs is set to the correct HDMI selections - incidentally, the pref tool doesn't save my selections when I change them, it always shows default when I open it back up again). I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times and repaired permissions. So what's the problem? Is it a conflict with my Kona 3? I have my GPU in slot 1, Kona 3 in slot 2, fibre channel card in slot 4, so Intensity Pro went in slot 3.
Okay, so I removed the Kona card, and swapped the Intensity Pro over to slot 2. Then I uninstalled and reinstalled, and this time it finished installing okay. I don't yet know if it will continue to work okay if I set things back the way they were now that the driver is installed fully.
That didn't solve the capture issue though, it turns out that the PS3 always has HDCP enabled, even for games. Luckily the debug kits have an option to disable HDCP, so once I did that the signal came through okay for capture.