nitinagarwal1988 Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 (edited) Solution for Realtek AC97 onBoardGet the following most up-to-date driver R2.14 for VistaYou may download the drivers from realtek itself, but trust me you need to have time for that file transfer and webpage!Realtek HD Audio Driver from manufacturerThen do the following steps:- Extract the archive- Right-click the setup.exe file -> choose Vista in Compatibilty mode- Start setup.exeThis worked for me. I now have 5.1 sound and the realtek control panel works.MSI K9N Neo V2 - mainboardHope this helps you all.Well, this maybe a solution for those with HD audio but not for those stuck with old AC97 sound.Just about giving up with this subject now, nothing seems to be working 100%. installing R2.14 make no sense as it will not work with windows7 n i've to installed R2.14 in compatibility mode but nothing happens just got message that this driver is not supported with windows 7. Edited January 18, 2009 by nitinagarwal1988 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fyre Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 (edited) Hi here are screens from R.214 drivers with functionally control panel.- Uninstalled the audio driver from Windows- Restart- Choose Vista in Compatibilty mode- Installed R214 driver via setup.exe Edited January 24, 2009 by Fyre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybpsych Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 try this page: http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/vista-sound-drivers/i found my *working* driver for SoundMax (eventhough WindowsUpdate has the driver, but there's no sound output).Hey cybpsych, I also have SoundMax, I've spent a couple days trying to find a driver that will actually output sound. This guy says he did it, but he has to be a liar. I tried the driver and it's bull, every version of the driver says "smwd.sys" or something like that is missing. I even found a sys file that's really similar, but it just doesn't work. Don't stress yourself out, there are actually a lot of people with sound problems in win7. I'm switching back to Vista, because Windows 7 makes me feel like I'm deaf.i think u got me wrong ... i found my working driver from the site i posted above it works for my soundmax, maybe you can try download this driver to try too ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eiber Azuaje Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I can't get it to work right either! Sound only comes out through front speakers even when I set them up in control panel to work as 5.1.... MSI KM4VMM MoBoKM400 chipset VIA1617a CodecSempron 2500+ @ 2gb RAM DDR333 It works just fine in XP Home Ed. and Vista Home Premium Ed.I've tried almost everything you guys have talked about here.... I'm guessing smart 5.1 feature is not windows 7 friendly.... at least for now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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