No sound in windows 7, onboard soundcard.

Hi guys, I'm experiencing trouble with the sound. At the moment I cant get any sound out of my computer. I use the onboard soundcard VIA® VT1828S 8. I think there might be some driver related issues?

What I've done:

- Installed a fresh install of windows on different harddrive to make sure the soundcard is working, and it was.

- Have installed/uinstalled newest sound driver.

Can anyone plase help me out?

Edit.

There might be a conflict with graphic card? ATI Radeon 5770





It says its disabled, but I haven't disabled it.

I'm very sure that the onboard soundcard is working properly. As i mentioned I installed a fresh windows 7 on a different harddrive just to make sure. I plugged speakers, headphones, and headphones via dac (toslink), and that worked great.

My motherboard is a Asus P55D PRO using a VIA® VT1828S sound module.

I'm pretty sure that there must be a driver jam or something.

I've tried to delete driver from device manager, then install a new driver from Asus website and ViA website.

The problem occurred last week. I've used a usb dac for a long time, and I recently purchased a new dac where I have to use spdif/toslink instead of usb. I plugged it in, but the dac weren't detected so I installed the driver.

I've also tried to uinstall graphic card drivers (Radeon 5770) and installed a fresh one.

Just trying to eliminate every option. That didn't help though. I tried to reinstall the drivers.

The troubleshooting says the audio device is disabled, but I haven't disabled it. It's not listed as disabled in device manager. But what is the audio device? is the the sound card or the speakers?

DustSailor said:

go to device manager and look at the audio and sound and speaker stuff listed there. Let me know if there are any exclaimation marks. also, there you can try uninstalling them (windows should redetect them and reinstall them, and if it doesn't, restart). then reinstall its drivers (only the audio this time). You don't have a sound card in your computer that it is detecting? no auxillary cables plugged in or headphones, etc?

You've looked through windows audio AND your device's audio settings again and again for anything to reenable the speakers? make sure all settings are listed correctly according to your setup. If nothing else works, I suggest look it up through google, and perhaps wait for another reply, because i've expended my knowledge on the issue.

ALSO, there is a chance you could have the wrong item enabled in your windows audio control. Try enabling all other audio devices (the ones in your picture at the top) and then disabling all but one (with sound plauying the whole time). Then enable another one and disable the one you had enabled.
In other words you are seeing if they all work together (the sound may be distorted or it may not work at all), and you are testing each one individually to see if it works by itself. Let me know how this goes.

Ok, this is how the device manager looks like:



I've tried several times to reinstall it from device manager without success. I don't have any other sound cards connected. I have to devices connected at the moment, one dac (spdif/toslink) and one headphone (regular jack).


I have no clue what to do now. I really don't want to format the disk and install a new windows. Trying to play a song:



This happens when I choose to uinstall the VIA soundcard in device manager (after restart):

I'm very close to giving up. Just format and install a fresh window. That will take me hours of hours to get everything back, but at least it will work...