Weird thing showing in Device manager

[Octopuss]

This started to show up recently. Haven't seen that before at all.I thought it might be something with new version of the drivers, but with older version it didn't go away. What gives? :-O

The text is gibberish but I guess you get the idea It says sound device on HD audio bus and the other window bugs me about the device being inproperly configured.

[LordWarlock]

Either install this driver from Microsoft (use the link at the top to request it, you will get an e-mail with a download link), or install the drivers for your onboard soundcard, most HD soundcard drivers already contain this driver from Microsoft. Or you can update to SP3 (probably the best solution).

[Octopuss]

Well I have always been using drivers downloaded from Realtek web with no problems at all. Sadly I cannot tell when exactly has this started to show up, but I am sure I did not change anything major in the system - definitely not the integrated sound

I already have SP3 for a long time btw.

The driver from manufacturer's site (GigaByte) is pretty much the same as the one available on Realtek site. Btw it even states it already includes UAA - I assume it is the thing you linked me to, without clicking yet

[Octopuss]

Ok I installed it and it didn't do anything.

[puntoMX]

Did you install the chipset drivers as well? Sometimes it also helps to remove the older drivers as well, so first you install the KB by hand and then apply the Realtek driver, although as far as I know that KB is already a part of SP3.

[Octopuss]

Sure, everything is installed. It is weird... In fact I never had older drivers installed before, this is a clean install.

[roadrippersid]

uninstall using ccleaner and then again install realtek drivers..

[Octopuss]

uninstall using ccleaner and then again install realtek drivers..

How is that gonna make any difference? It just executes the uninstaller.

[CoffeeFiend]

It looks like audio, but the only way to be 100% sure of what it is, and what drivers it needs, are to have the vendor & device IDs. Look under the "details" tab, then select "Hardware Ids" from the dropdown.

I'm assuming you also tried to force it to reinstall all your audio stuff (delete all the audio stuff in device manager & reboot) and such steps.

[Octopuss]

Yeah I tried that. Nothing.

[CoffeeFiend]

That already helps a lot!

Vendor ID 0x1002 is ATI. It's something to do with audio on your vid card, likely for a HDMI output.

You do anything to your vid card lately? I'd try reinstalling those drivers instead.

[Octopuss]

What the? Audio on VGA? Am I missing anything here? :-O

I only swapped x1900 for 4870, but I am not sure it started to show up after that at all.

[CoffeeFiend]

Yep! That card has its own audio codec onboard, for use with HDMI connections.

[Octopuss]

The only trouble is the card does not have HDMI output at all. Anyway, I assume it's not possible to use that instead of the Realtek crap on the mb...

[CoffeeFiend]

It likely has a DVI->HDMI adapter. The codec on that board is limited to 7.1 ch linear PCM, and it only works over HDMI.

Onboard Realtek is quite good IMO. Easily the best sound card I've ever had... 0 issues using the toslink & spdif outs (using both on this rig), great drivers (compared to creative trash -- not that it's saying much!), decent set of interconnects (better than a X-Fi), supports every codec out there (including those used on Blu-Ray discs), etc. No complaints at all, whatsoever. The only nitpick I could think of, it that it doesn't have DTS connect, although some other/fancier Realtek models actually do.

I'm sure there's some gamers that would miss their EAX, and it's totally inadequate for musicians as it's no low-latency multitrack ASIO monster, but for everything else it's great. I have no plans on ever buying another sound card...

Edited December 31, 2008 by crahak