Audio Driver Failure

[Naph]

Is there anyway to clean up drivers, completely?
I installed the drivers for the Asus M3A and they didn't work.
Removed them with Driver Cleaner and in Control Panel.
Now that I've tried to install them again, they fail to complete the installation (But it doesn't say 'A newer version is already running')

Please help

 

[Sedako]

Here's a brilliant little program known as Driver Cleaner Pro:

http://www.overclock.net/attachment...5582-driver-cleaner-pro-1-5-dcprosetup_15.zip

Simply install it, run it, select "Realtek Audio" from the list and press start. When it's done, restart and try installing the new drivers again.

 

[Naph]

Used that
Didn't work.

Can't be uninstalled via Device Manager
Mebbe if there was a way to get around the error.

 

[Sedako]

Try booting into Safe Mode, then using driver cleaner.

 

[Naph]

Worked. Thanks Sedako.

 

[Naph]

But the drivers still won't install and it's the same error. There must be a different reason causing the error.

Double post ._.

 

[MRG]

If you have the ASUS M3A AM2+ motherboard with the AMD 770 Chipset, then the audio driver you want is the:

Realtek ALC883 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC Driver Package.

Download it here:
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=M3A

You may want to look into updating the Bios on the motherboard as well. The newest version for your motherboard is Version 0301, which is currently the only Bios out for that motherboard.

Maybe try disabling the driver in BIOS (make sure no drivers show up in add/remover progs), then reinstall the driver, then re-enable in BIOS

-MRG

 

[Naph]

Trying now.

WORKS, thanks MRG.

Your work has been sigged

 

[Naph]

Hang on; volumes up, wave is up, everything is up. Drivers in sound options are set to the audio output. Yet I hear nothing.
Winamp plays the music (which it didn't before without the driver) but no sound .

I'm currently searching around in the control panel for windows and realtek to find a solution. Haven't been too lucky on finding one yet.

Could it be a bios error? Speakers are working/plugged in/turned on.

I have no foreign Codecs installed.

USB Headphones work. I'm now thinking it could be a faulty motherboard. I need to clarify if USB headphones or somewhat tied to the soundcard though.

 

[MRG]

Man, I was all excited there for a second... Now it looks like I didn't help much after all...

Ok, back to square one.

Silly question here; Have you tried regular headphones and plugged them into the "Green" jack at the back of your motherboard? The Green jack is the standard default jack for audio, such as when you have the settings set to 2.1. (2 speakers or headphones) I know you know this, I just want to start at square one.

Make sure your headphones don't have a built in volume control. I had sound issues for a week until I "realized" that the volume control on the headphones went bad. Boy did I feel dumb, not having checked something so simple. That you are able to play music via Winamp is great. Shows things are working. Now we just got to get the sound to play.

Is there a volume control in the Realtek control panel?

Have you checked the volume slider on the default Windows Icon? The one located down at the bottom right corner of your screen near the Time? Quite often you'll find that with either onboard & dedicated audio solutions, your sound cards volume often is tied in to the small Volume control in your task bar.

Give us a run down of the steps you have so far done. We'll get you up & running.

-MRG

 

[MRG]

Forgot to add that I spent around an hour earlier looking for any problems I could find in regards to the ASUS M3A series motherboard & there were none. Seems like everyone had positive things to say. True it's a new motherboard, but overall still positive. Looking more now. If I find anything, i'll post it.

-MRG

 

[Naph]

Yeah everything is turned up. The green jack at the front has no sound either.
Turned off the computer for 12 hours and still no change.

 

[Naph]

No worries MRG, I fixed it.
Turns out the Drivers didn't support the 5.1 speakers at first. Had to manually change everything to line in to get them working. The sound is acting like stereo, but I can get that fixed later on :>

Thanks for the driver help MRG and Sedako

 

[MRG]

Glad to hear you were able to get everything working. Now lets hope that ASUS gets off their duff & gets to work on improving the drivers for the onboard audio to fully support your 5.1's.

-MRG