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Realtek AC'97 static (possible solution)
I tried numerous versions of drivers for my Realtek AC'97 on board sound card, but each of them would reproduce the same static, garbled, analog noise sound through the speakers. Those of you that had this problem will attest to it being really annoying.
With the last set of drivers I installed I decided to take a look in the at some settings. I went Control Panel > Sound, from there I selected the Speakers under the playback devices and pushed the properties button near the bottom of the dialog box. In the Speaker Properties i went to the levels tab, on the levels tab i muted the PC Speaker and immediately the static went away.
If you are experiencing static I'd advise you to give this a shot before you pull your hair out trying to find drivers.
The drivers I installed just before this was: 6285_Vista_APO_PG536.zip
That file installs a windows vista 64 bit driver, comes out to version number, date: 6.0.1.6285, 3/25/2008
That's all i can think of at the moment, I'll update this if anything changes.
My System Info:
System
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Manufacturer System manufacturer
Model System Product Name
Total amount of system memory 4.00 GB RAM
System type 64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2
Storage
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Total size of hard disk(s) 279 GB
Disk partition C:\ 241 GB Free (279 GB Total)
Media drive D:\ CD/DVD
Graphics
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Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)
Total available graphics memory 1775 MB
Dedicated graphics memory 512 MB
Dedicated system memory 0 MB
Shared system memory 1263 MB
Display adapter driver version 7.15.11.7816
Primary monitor resolution 1280x1024
DirectX version DirectX 9.0 or better
Network
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Network Adapter NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller