No audio output device is installed

[RAFC1990]

This is the message i am getting at the bottom of my screen so i now have no audio. I re installed windows 7 but went from 64 to 32 bit and now i have no audio. I have looked everywere to download drivers etc but no luck.

I hope you can help.

 

[Dwarf]

Hi RAFC1990 and welcome to Windows 7 Forums

Some specs would be useful, namely the make and full model number (including revision, if any) of your motherboard.

 

[RAFC1990]

I recently replaced my graphics card, that was the reason for the re install if that helps. Ive installed the graphics card drivers.

Motherboard is Asus PSLP - LE maybe P5LP - LE there seems to be results for both.

 

[Dwarf]

I can't seem to find a board with that reference. Are you sure that it's correct?

What does System Information have to say? I'm interested in the highlighted items, in particular the PNP Device ID shown in the second image.

 

[stormy13]

Despite the number of results on Google pretty sure that PSLP-LE is a typo (that and the few links I checked that had pictures of it, it is the same as the P5LP-LE) and that this is the motherboard,

Motherboard Specifications, P5LP-LE (Leonite) - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

which if it is has the Realtek ALC888 on it and you can find links to the latest driver here,

http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/3756-latest-realtek-hd-audio-driver-version.html

 

[RAFC1990]

 

[RAFC1990]

 

[RAFC1990]

Despite the number of results on Google pretty sure that PSLP-LE is a typo (that and the few links I checked that had pictures of it, it is the same as the P5LP-LE) and that this is the motherboard,

Motherboard Specifications, P5LP-LE (Leonite) - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

which if it is has the Realtek ALC888 on it and you can find links to the latest driver here,

http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/3756-latest-realtek-hd-audio-driver-version.html

Ive downloaded them drivers they dont seem to do anything, on system information it just says im on NVIDIA

 

[stormy13]

Grab this,

Speccy - System Information - Free Download

and post a screen shot of the Summary page please.

 

[RAFC1990]

I cant afford the download mate,

I dont understand why there is no realtek driver when i have installed one just nvidia i think this is the problem.

 

[DocBrown]

Here is the Speccy setup

:ar:

 

[RAFC1990]

Sorry seems there was a free link, image screenshot below.

 

[stormy13]

The audio your seeing from Nvidia is from the video card, which has its own built in audio chip for passing audio over HDMI. Open the Windows playback properties and see if both the Realtek and Nvidia audio are showing, and if they are set the Realtek as the default playback device.

 

[sygnus21]

Open the Windows playback properties and see if both the Realtek and Nvidia audio are showing, and if they are set the Realtek as the default playback device.

Go to Control Panel, Sound, click Playback tab....



As stormy said, you want to set yours to Realtek

 

[RAFC1990]

Apparently i have no audio devices installed :0

 

[sygnus21]

Er... yeah, that would be a problem.

Can you post a screenshot of your device manager?

Start, right click Computer, click Properties, in the top left hand corner click Device Manager.

 

[RAFC1990]

Yeh how come its saying that? Never had such a problem before!

 

[stormy13]

Follow this,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/77614-device-manager-hidden-devices.html

to set Device manager to show hidden devices, then check the sound controllers again to see if the onboard Realtek has ever been detected. If it has it will be grayed out, if not it won't show at all. Next boot into the bios and make sure that the onboard audio is set to enabled (should be located somewhere the integrated peripherals section).

 

[sygnus21]

I see, (guessing) you've got you yellow exclamation marks, so that's good? With that said, they seem to be working, thus no yellow marks.

Can you right click on one of those, hit Properties, and post a screenshot of both the "General" tab and "Driver" tab?

Also, have you been messing around in your BIOS and disabled the soundcard by chance?

And lastly, can you post a link to your model of computer you have? Something with system specs?

Thanks.

Hmm.... I see me and stormy posted at the same time. Answer all the questions we both asked.

Thanks.

 

[stormy13]

And lastly, can you post a link to your model of computer you have? Something with system specs?

Thanks.

Compaq Presario SR5129UK Desktop PC Product Specifications Compaq Presario SR5129UK Desktop PC - HP Customer Care (United States - English)

shows in his screen shot back in post #6.