VIA HD Audio Deck or similar needed to configure 5.1 speakers

smuddell said:

BorisTheAnimal said:

smuddell said:

Still the same, a total mystery!

But what does it say in the Realtek window? I mean it should indicate that you have something plugged into the audio ports at the back, at least it says that for me whenever I unplug or plug something.

And what happened to the Realtek installer that I linked to you, unfortunately I couldn't test it so I don't know but it might happen that it only installed like drivers and I guess you would need to install Realtek HD Audio Manager unless you have it installed.

When I unplug the back speakers it greys out on the Audio Manager, when I plug back in it asks me to confirm which speakers they are. The installer unzipped files onto my hard drive, so I ran the setup.exe then rebooted, no change!

But what is the program that you are using for the speakers, still the VIA HD Audio Deck?

smuddell said:

Yes

I would recommend using the Realtek one, not that it's anything wrong with VIA but considering that the audio chip is Realtek might be causing some issue.

smuddell said:

BorisTheAnimal said:

smuddell said:

Yes

I would recommend using the Realtek one, not that it's anything wrong with VIA but considering that the audio chip is Realtek might be causing some issue.

That brings me back to where I started... any ideas where I can get the Realtek one from? That was part of my first post as I couldn't find either the Via or Realtek ones anywhere online and was told where to get the Via one!

Here is a link to a page where you can download it(I know it's a little bit tricky):
Realtek

Update?

Did you get it sorted out?

smuddell said:

BorisTheAnimal said:

Update?

Did you get it sorted out?

Sorry, I've been away for a few days!

That link doesn't have any config software, they all say driver only. This was one of the pages I looked at before I posted my query!

But did you actually try and install what you found on the page?

Because I think that the HD audio manager should like auto install once it sees that you have Realtek sound on your computer.

What does it say in Device Manager, under "Sound, video and game controllers"?

smuddell said:

I tried these Realtek ones before I originally posted and none of them included a configuration program.

On Device Manager I have AMD High Definition Audio Device and VIA High Definition Audio.

I'm 99% certain it was the VIA HD Vdeck I used with no problems before my PC was rebuilt back to Windows 7.

Well I'm sorry but to me it is very confusing if the audio chip was Realtek but the actual software to controll it was VIA.

Though then we are again kind of stuck with the where to get this control software because all driver links that I've looked through say that the software will be installed upon installing the driver.

Have you gone through your hard drive looking for anything from either Realtek or VIA that would be a control software? E.g. "C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA"