realtek digital output does not work. Full setup and installation of Realtek High Definition Audio. What we have

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Sensei New guy Created
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Topic Created: 01.10.2012 19:35:07

The problem is this:

To a work computer (OC Win7 x32) with a motherboard ASUS P5VD2-VM SE and an integrated video card, a video card was installed Palit GT220, drivers downloaded and installed. And then the dancing and dancing with tambourines began...

Up to this point, everything was fine with the sound and there was only one device in the device manager. After installing the drivers, there were 4 of them and they are all called , plus in Playback devices many devices appeared that were incomprehensible to me, all marked High Definition Audio . Through numerous searches, deletions through the registry and installing drivers all over again, we managed to achieve the following:

In Device Manager 4" High Definition Audio enabled device" and 1 " Realtek High Definition Audio".

In playback devices there are two devices to choose from: Speakers(Realtek High Definition Audio) and Realtek Digital Output(Realtek High Definition Audio), but none of them produce sound... I've been fighting for a week now, but there's no sound. In BIOS-e I also tried switching from AC97 to HD Audio and vice versa, so far the result is the same.

Please help me figure it out...

Minivendor Writer Created
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Reply from: 10/01/2012 20:22:55

Sensei; Quote:
Specify device ID

Antonio Main Created
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Reply from: 10/01/2012 20:31:50

Sensei:
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In the playback devices there are two devices to choose from: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) and Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio), but neither of them produces sound...

Well, next to which one is there a green tick?

Sensei New guy Created
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Reply from: 10/02/2012 11:56:57

Realtek High Definition Audio:
HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0662&SUBSYS_10438290&REV_1001
HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0662&SUBSYS_10438290

High Definition Audio:
HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101&REV_1001
HDAUDIO/FUNC_01&VEN_10DE&DEV_000A&SUBSYS_10DE0101

The checkbox is opposite "Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)"

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Sensei New guy Created
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Reply from: 02.10.2012 13:57:12

Just yesterday, I scoured your forum, downloaded and installed these exact drivers, but it didn’t help.
I know that HDMI is not a sound card. I have suspicions that when I installed the drivers on the video card, the included audio drivers were also installed by default. And in audio playback devices, the system does not correctly detect connection connectors. I have only three of them and they are all located on the mother, plus two on the muzzle, under the headphones and micro. And the system determines to me that the speakers are connected to the front headphone jack.

Sensei New guy Created
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Reply from: 02.10.2012 18:48:09

I turned off the auto-installation of drivers, as advised, deleted all audio and video drivers, cleaned the registry, removed the video card, installed the drivers that you recommended, only on Realtek, but everything remained the same.
In the Realtek HD manager, the rear panel is displayed as not active, but the front panel, on the contrary, even shows that it is micro. connected In fact, only the rear speakers are connected...

Minivendor Writer Created
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Reply from: 10/02/2012 21:31:35

Sensei; Actually, there should be sound on Windows 7 even without drivers. Maybe the problem is in Windows 7 itself, what build is installed!?

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Reply from: 03.10.2012 13:13:55

Sensei:
Quote: that is, even after that the sound did not appear?
try rolling back the system to the date and time when everything was fine with the sound, install a video card, and turn on the computer without installing drivers for the video card.
Check the sound.

Sensei:
Quote: Are you sure you connected the plug correctly to the green connector?

try installing sound drivers from the disk that came from the motherboard. There they are for Windows Vista, put them in Vista compatibility mode

Sensei New guy Created
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Reply from: 03.10.2012 14:15:03

Minivendor:
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In principle, I think it’s not a problem with Windows, because before my invasion of the office PC space everything was fine, like clockwork

Antonio:
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Just now I was doing this with a rollback and it didn’t work out... One single rollback date is 10/02/12 Antonio:

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Exactly right, more than once I stuck it in and out again in all the sockets that are there. I don’t have the disk, my mother is ancient, but I just had some firewood from Vista, I downloaded it at one time, and I also got up normally in the morning, version 1.29, but there was no sound...

Gentlemen, I am very grateful to you for your help, but apparently there is some kind of unique case here... The situation is useless, the surest way will help, demolishing and installing Windows with a new one, and ideally, I’ll go and write an application for the purchase of a new office PC. We need to think about how to close something, otherwise they won’t buy it.

But seriously, you'll have to learn to work without sound

If your computer runs on Windows XP, Vista or 7, and is also equipped with an audio chip from Realtek, then you need to have a special driver for sound to work. To activate it, type “Realtek” in the Start search. When you find Realtek HD Manager in the results, launch it. If this program is not in the search, then this driver is missing on the computer or is installed too old version. This article will tell you how to install and configure the Realtek driver.

Installing the Realtek driver

Follow this step by step instructions, if the computer does not have a driver or it is outdated.

1. Download current version required driver from the Realtek website or from our website using the following link: .
2. Start the installation by running the downloaded file in “.exe” format.
3. To continue the installation, click “Next”.
   

   Attention: if during installation there is a warning that Windows does not know about the driver publisher, then simply click on “Install” to continue the installer.

4. After installing the driver, restart your computer for all changes to take effect.
   Signal about correct installation software there will be a Realtek HD Audio Manager sign on the taskbar. To go to the Realtek manager, simply double-click on the sign.

Realtek High Definition Audio Features and Settings

The Realtek audio codec supports 8-channel audio, Jack-Sensing, and many other features. In addition, it works successfully with Universal Audio Jack, making it easy to troubleshoot cable connection errors.

Realtek Audio Manager supports motherboards, which work with the audio processor from Realtek.

Note: All menus are listed below for reference and their names may differ greatly from what will be on your computer. In the environment indicated above Windows versions, Realtek HD Manager will automatically find devices connected to the ports. And depending on them, tabs with settings will already be shown. Also, the program interface may differ depending on the driver version or the model of the sound card installed on your computer.

For example:

Speakers Menu

First, a slider will open in front of you to adjust the volume of all devices. The panel located on the right will contain parameters related to the operation of audio output devices.

Digital output

To configure the digital audio input, do the following:

1. In the " Additional settings Devices”, you can configure the input jack separation parameters.
2. After that, four more submenus will become available to you.

To set up speaker systems:

1. Select the "Speakers" menu.
2. To set the analog output port as the default device, click on “Set Default Device”.
3. Select the "Speaker Configuration" menu located under "Speakers". The configuration options will be there. You can also configure there surround sound and specify the speaker configuration.

4. In the “Sound Effect” menu, you can set up karaoke, select the environment around you, and also choose one of several modes for the equalizer.

5. To adjust the speakers, you need to go to the “Room correction” menu. There you can adjust the distance and angles based on your location. This is very useful feature useful when you are not directly in front of the speakers, but stand in an asymmetrical position from them. But its operation is possible only in modes 5.1 and 7.1.
6. Menu " Standard format» is responsible for the mixer parameters. More specifically, for the sampling frequency and bit depth with which the OS will process outgoing sounds.

Microphone settings

You can configure your microphone in the last menu, which is called “Microphone”. At the top there will be sliders for adjusting the microphone volume and balance. Adjust them until you reach the desired volume.

This section is divided into two tabs: Microphone Effect and Standard Format.

In the “Microphone Effect” tab, you can change the conference mode parameters, as well as enable echo and noise suppression mode.

Information menu

By clicking on the information icon, which looks like the letter “i,” you can find out the program version, audio controller, DirectX, codec and select the program language.

Thank you for your attention! Write your clarifications on setting up Realtek High Definition Audio. 🙂

I have no sound on Windows 7, I have no experience in troubleshooting such malfunctions in this operating system, but I really want to figure out what’s wrong and fix the problem myself. You have a similar article about Windows XP, but unfortunately it didn’t help me. Denis.

No sound on Windows 7

The reasons for the lack of sound in Windows 7 are sometimes simple, and often it takes quite a long time to find the problem. Very often, when asking a question, users do not provide complete information about the problem, for example, they do not say that they tried to update the day before sound driver or tried to connect other sound speakers to the computer or made changes to the settings of the Sound tab in the Control Panel. Or maybe you installed some plugin on your laptop to improve the sound quality of the players installed on your system and after that you no sound on Windows 7. But no matter what happens to you, friends, do not despair, there is a solution to your problem and, as usual, we will start with the simplest.

• Note: at the end of the article, as an option, there is a way to work with a little-known to a novice user - A universal remedy Windows diagnostics 7 , it can automatically find and fix various problems related to more than just no sound. We have also published a new article, in which you can learn in detail how to set the exact name of your sound card, how to download drivers for it from its official website, and how to install them.
• If you have Windows 8, read our article
• If your built-in sound card has failed, read our article.
• If you are not satisfied with the sound quality on your laptop, you can.

Even very experienced users have situations when, for some reason, they disconnected the sound speakers from the system unit and then forgot about it. Check that everything is securely connected. The output for connecting audio speakers is marked green.

You can check the serviceability of the sound speakers by connecting headphones to the sound output; if there is sound, then the speakers are faulty. Also, if there is no sound in Windows 7, you need to go to the device manager and pay attention to whether you have an exclamation mark in a yellow circle next to the Sound devices item. Start->Control Panel->click right mouse to “Computer” and select Properties from the menu, then Device Manager. If the yellow circle is present, then your sound driver has simply crashed and you need to reinstall it again.

How to do it? Read our article How to install a sound driver(link above), but on the other hand, the sound driver just doesn’t crash, which means that some of your actions led to the problem, by the way, Windows 7 has a system restore service, which you of course know about, so you can use it in this case.

• Note: In order not to rack your brains over which of the two hundred programs and games you installed yesterday led to sound problems, you can use a simple system restore, fortunately in Windows 7 it is usually turned on for everyone and roll back a little.

Just yesterday, my friends asked me to fix the problem of no sound on their computer. The day before, for some reason, they downloaded and installed two multimedia players on the Internet at once, after which they lost sound. First of all, I looked at the speaker volume indicator in the Taskbar to see if it was completely turned down, but everything turned out to be fine.

I also right-clicked on the Speakers button and selected Playback Devices from the menu.

At the Dynamics item there was a green check mark as expected.

Although sometimes when there is no sound in Windows 7, the Sound window displays only Digital Audio (S/PDIF)

or absolutely nothing is displayed, then click on an empty space with the left mouse button and a menu will appear in which you need to check two items “Show disconnected” devices and “Show disconnected devices”

and we will immediately see our Speakers, click on them right click mouse and select “Enable”,

We do the same with headphones, then “Apply” and “OK”.

It’s strange, but my friends in the Sound window displayed Speakers marked with a green checkmark and in the device manager there was a working sound device with NVIDIA support High Definition Audio

Everything indicated that the sound was fine. I brought headphones with me and connected them to the sound output located with reverse side system unit and made sure that there is actually no sound, which means the sound speakers are also working.
The first thing in this case is that the sound device driver may be damaged or not working correctly, which means you need to go to the device manager and try to update the driver, which will not always help, in this case you need to completely remove all sound devices from the system.

After the operation was performed in the operating system, my friends started hearing sound. By the way, in this case, you can also use system recovery and, of course, a complete reinstallation of the driver.
Another time there was a different problem, the person installed it on his Windows computer 7, everything would be fine, but there was no sound, there was eloquent information in the device manager.

In such cases, you need a disk with drivers for the motherboard that came with your computer when you purchased it. On this disk you need to see whether the drivers on it are suitable for Windows 7. If the drivers on the disk are intended for Windows XP, naturally you should not install them, you need go online and download native drivers for your sound card on its official website.

How to do this is written in detail and step by step in the article. Often, not only searching for drivers, but also correctly determining the name of the device is a problem for a novice user, so I still advise you to follow our link and read the article. If you still don’t find a driver for Windows 7, but you have an installation package of drivers for Windows XP, you can try to install it in the Compatibility Troubleshooting mode, but I’ll tell you, friends, this is not exactly the best option.

It happens that it is not possible to find the reason for the lack of sound at all; if the built-in audio card fails, in the device manager there may be a red circle with a cross next to it, or there may be nothing, in this case many decide to complete reinstallation operating system, then install the drivers on the sound card and if in this case the sound does not appear, you just need to buy and install a separately supplied PCI interface sound card. It is advisable to buy it together with a disk containing drivers specifically for your Windows 7-64bit or 32bit. You also need to know that immediately after you have installed a separate sound PCI card in the system unit, the built-in one in most cases must be disabled in the BIOS, otherwise the sound will not appear. Many people do not attach importance to this, and in vain. High Definition Audio should be set to Disabled.

A simple PCI interface sound card is not expensive at all, about 100-200 rubles, and for example, I always carry it with me. The first signs of failure of the integrated sound card are occasional missing or low-quality sound. This means it’s time to replace it with one installed in the form of an expansion card.
By the way, individual PCI interface sound cards are different, for example Sound Blaster manufactured by Creative Technology, are essentially a very high-quality and professional solution, but cost from two thousand rubles.

But keep in mind that if you have such a card, as well as a good audio system, and in some game you decide to shoot from a Kalashnikov assault rifle, then your neighbors may misunderstand this and decide that you are actually firing at houses from a machine gun.

An interesting story about how we searched for the missing sound with our reader.
Denis wrote me a letter saying that he had no sound on Windows 7-64bit, suspicion of a faulty built-in sound card. The sound speakers are missing, they were checked on another computer and they were fine. Didn't help reinstalling Windows 7 and installing native drivers from the disk to motherboard included with the purchase of the computer. Also, the downloaded driver package from the official Realtek website did not bring any results after installation.

Our reader bought and installed a sound card installed separately in the PSI connector; before purchasing, he inquired whether there was a disk with drivers for Windows 7-64bit for it. Next comes the most interesting part: he puts the side cover of the system unit in place, then connects all the cables and sound speakers, and turns on the computer. I remind you that the sound card came with a disk with drivers, which it successfully installed, but the sound did not appear. He wrote me 10 letters, we sorted out all the possible faults with him, but the sound still did not appear, I began to have thoughts that the purchased sound card was also faulty, does this happen or is it not fully inserted into the PCI connector. Denis, at my request, took the card to the service center where he bought it, where they checked it in front of him and it turned out to be working.

In his last letter, Denis sent me a screenshot of the system unit and showed me his mistake, it turns out that he still connected the speaker cable to the old built-in faulty sound card, like this. System unit our reader had it under the table and our friend, according to him, had to act literally by touch, it is not surprising that he made such a mistake and he can be forgiven for it, since you will agree, friends, in the absence of experience, the chances of connecting the sound speakers incorrectly increase greatly. So I ask you to take all of the above carefully.

The arrow shows the sound output of the purchased audio card, the place where the speaker plug needed to be connected; on top you can see the same connector, only belonging to the failed built-in sound card.

Universal Windows 7 Diagnostic Tool

As I promised, I will give an example of working with the Windows 7 Universal Diagnostic Tool, let's try to use it to fix the problem of no sound in Windows 7.
Control Panel->System and Security

Support Center

Maintenance and Troubleshooting.

As you can see here, you and I will be able to solve many problems that arise, and not only with sound. Equipment and sound.

Play sound.

A complete description of the parameters, as well as instructions for setting up built-in Realtek sound cards. Setting up playback, recording, 3D sound. Windows Vista/7/8

2012-02-17T18:19

2012-02-17T18:19

Audiophile's Software

Copyright 2017, Taras Kovrijenko

Full or partial copying of the text is allowed only with the written permission of the author.

Prologue

This time I will touch on a topic that is relevant, so to speak, for beginner enthusiasts - that is, for those who have not yet acquired a discrete sound card and want to get the most out of an integrated one.

1. Educational program

To begin with, a short educational program. Who doesn’t know or doesn’t fully understand what it is hardware audio codec, carefully read the relevant Wikipedia pages:

Have you read it? Great! And now it would be very nice if you read my two articles:

Well, now we can start.

2. What we have

So, I have at my disposal the Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate x64 OS (the setting described in the article is suitable for all operating systems starting with Vista), the ALC887 codec built into the motherboard (ASUS P7H55-V) (there is a datasheet), an external amplifier connected to the rear connectors and microphone (green and pink sockets, respectively). Please note that we will configure the card for withdrawal stereo sound by analog interface.

3. Software installation

First of all, you need to install the drivers. Of course, most likely the OS Windows already I found and installed the drivers for the sound device myself, but to gain access to all the functionality, as well as for peace of mind, we will install the driver package directly from Realtek, latest version which you can download on the corresponding page of my website. By the way, the settings specified here were tested on driver version R2.67.

Download the drivers and perform a simple installation procedure (by running HD_Audio/Setup.exe), reboot the computer.

After loading the OS, a brown speaker icon should appear in the system tray:

4. Driver setup

First of all, let's go to Windows Control Panel->Hardware and Sound->Sound and, making sure that our headphones or speakers are connected to the green socket of the sound card, we disconnect all unnecessary devices, and make our connected device the default device:

At the same time, let's do the same with recording devices:

Now double-click on the tray icon. If there is no icon, look for it in hidden icons; if it’s not there either, go to Control Panel->Hardware and Sound->. One way or another, the dispatcher window should open:

Here we immediately set the speaker configuration (stereo), set our analog device as the default device (after which the corresponding button will go out), turn off surround sound if, God forbid, it’s turned on.

Using the button in the form of a yellow folder, you can configure to disable detection of front panel connectors:

Also note that the connected connectors are displayed bright color- in our case, speakers are connected to the green output, and a microphone is connected to the pink input. There is one very important detail here: by double-clicking on the connector icon, you will see a window with a choice of the type of connected device. This is important because if you choose "headphones", then the codec will use a special additional amplifier (otherwise the sound in the headphones will be too quiet), for the connected active speakers or external amplifiers should be selected "Front Speaker Output". Here you can enable the automatic pop-up of this window when you connect a device to any of the card connectors:

Using the “i” button, you can open a window with information about the driver version, DirectX, audio controller and codec version, and you can also turn on/off the display of the icon in the system tray:

Now let's turn off the effects:

The “Room correction” settings for the stereo configuration are not available, which is actually strange - in the same console from THX (which is included, for example, in the driver package Creative X-Fi) you can adjust the distance and angle of direction of the speakers relative to your location, which can be very useful when you are not sitting directly in front of the speakers, or they are located asymmetrically relative to you. Well, okay, let it be on the conscience of the developers.

The last tab duplicates the control panel settings (however, most of the settings from the Manager are also in the control panel):

Here you can set the parameters of the system mixer - with what sampling frequency and depth Windows bit will mix all played sounds. Let's set it to 24 bit, 96 kHz. I’ll tell you why later.

Since I am constantly bombarded with questions about how to set up a microphone (which, in my opinion, should cause a minimum of confusion), I will still focus on setting up recording devices. Their settings, by the way, as well as playback devices, are located on separate tabs at the top of the window. Let's start with the stereo mixer:

Everything here is elementary. This device records everything you hear through the speakers, i.e., the finished audio stream that Windows transmits to the sound card. It is reduced to the specified form (since the mixer operates with a sampling frequency of 96 kHz, then we will set the same here).

But our main recording device is, of course, the microphone:

So, set the recording volume to maximum and turn off the microphone gain (then, if necessary, you can turn it on). Also, very often people complain that they reproduce the sound picked up by the microphone; to prevent this from happening, we turn off the playback. To your taste - noise filtering, echo suppression. On the tab , again, the recording format is set:

Considering the characteristics of the sound recording path, the standard 16 bit/44.1 kHz will suffice here.

5. Setting up foobar2000

In principle, the work done is enough to ensure the highest (for this card) sound quality in any player. But for the truly paranoid, I will provide foobar2000 settings. We will need, in fact, the player itself and several plugins for it - WASAPI output support And SoX Resampler. Well, or you can download my assembly, which already has everything.

So, in the player output settings (File->Preferences->Playback->Output) select WASAPI:<наше устройство> , set the bit depth 24 bit:

When outputting through WASAPI Exclusive, all sound card effects (if enabled) are bypassed, as well as the Windows mixer (for which we specified the sample rate).

Now let's move on to the DSP settings:

Here we add the resampler SOund eXchange and Advanced Limiter to the chain. In the resampler settings, set the frequency to 96 kHz.

Now why 96 kHz? I conducted a series of experiments and this is what I found out. In front output mode, if the volume control is set to more than 90%, when playing the test tone udial(sampling frequency - 44.1 kHz) strong distortion is heard. The distortion disappears if you either lower the volume, switch to headphone mode, or resample the audio to 96 kHz.

It is difficult to judge the reasons for this phenomenon based on the available data, but you can draw conclusions and play it safe twice: output all audio at a sampling rate of 96 kHz, and do not increase the volume to more than 90%.

And a few words about the need to configure foobar2000. In principle, it is possible to output sound to the "DS: Primary Sound Driver" device. In this case, resampling will be performed using Windows(the resampler there is not the worst), besides, all other sounds will not be turned off (as when playing through WASAPI Exclusive). Additionally, by selecting this device, Windows will output sound to the device that is set by default in the Control Panel, which can be convenient (for example, when you turn off one of the devices, the sound automatically switches to another). So the choice is yours - convenience, or confidence in quality.

6. Resurrecting 3D Audio and Hardware Mixing

And of course I haven’t forgotten about gamers. Since in Windows, starting with Vista, there is no access to hardware mixing of streams (all operations are performed by Windows, and then one single stream is output to the sound card), the developers came up with special program, analogous to Creative ALchemy, but for Realtek - 3D SoundBack. It connects to hardware resources via the OpenAL interface, emulating for the specified Windows programs emulates a DirectSound device (as in Windows XP), and then simply converts DirectSound (or DirectSound 3D) commands to OpenAL commands, resulting in true EAX 2.0 in games, as well as the ability to convert multi-channel audio to stereo with surround effects.

To launch the program, open the folder .../Program Files/Realtek/3D Sound Back Beta0.1, in file properties 3DSoundBack.exe on the tab "Compatibility" install Windows Vista SP2 compatibility mode:

Now run this file. To add an application - click Add Game, enter the name and address of the folder that contains the executable file of the program. For example:

After adding, do not forget to highlight the added application and click the button Enable.

Now the specified application will by default use the DirectSound emulated device and will have access to the hardware resources of the sound card:

Epilogue

Well, another grandiose article is completed. By the way, I was thinking: in a good way, this article should have been written one of the first... However, at that time I still would not have had enough knowledge to describe everything in such detail, so it may be to the best.

If something is not clear, or you have any questions, please ask or comment. Good luck!

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