If I switch back and forth between HD Audio and AC97 it does a few seconds of 'processing' and I sometimes get a '.unplugged.' and/or '.plugged in.' notification from Windows. The Sound Manager has an Option section where you can select either HD Audio or AC97. You can try both of them until you update the driver successfully.

We’ve put together two ways below to update your ASUS Realtek audio driver. If I run any of the Windows Sound 'Tests' which are available in its various audio properties dialog boxes the sound meter indictor/equalizer is showing pulses of activity just as you'd expect even though no audio is actually come from the speaker/headset.Īlso In addition to the one headset which is the typical stereo headset plug I have a second headset which is a Plantronics USB based headset which when I use it the audio comes through fine. To fix your computer no sound issue, you may want to update the ASUS Realtek audio driver. Hmm, I'm gonna give that a try - uninstalling the NVIDIA HD Audio Driver completely. NVIDIA HD Audio does show up as a choice but I keep deselected. I used them in my previous computer regular up to just a few days ago. I don't recall the speaker vendor but I believe it was Logitech. The Sound Manager is just so totally f*cked up. The same thing for headphone, it is dimmed as a choice even though the headset is plugged in so I can't set it as default. So I set Realtek HD Audio as the default. The thing is is that in Realtek Sound manager 'Speakers' shows as 'not plugged in' even though it is so the option to make it the default is dimmed out - Sound Manager isn't picking up that the speaker is plugged in. Device manager reports all components/drivers recognized and enabled.

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