Sound Not Working after Fresh windows 7 Install

[Siema]

I originally had a copy of windows 7 on my pc and decided that i wanted to try out ubuntu 9.1. Well after a couple days of playing on ubuntu i load windows and notice i have no sound. Sound in Ubuntu still works. I get tired of linux and making the switch back to windows decide to install windows 7 clean over my previous dual boot setup figuring that with a clean install sound should work flawlessly. Well now after hours and hours of installing creative and x-fi and asus drivers i dont know what to do. I put the previously working drivers i had on, the ones that came on my mobo cd, instead of the website. Windows says everything is working fine and the sound icon even moves when i play a song or something but no sound whatsoever. Please help and tell me that linux didnt screw my system up !!!

 

[Siema]

ps. this is using an asus crosshair III formula with the oem supreme f/x x-fi sound card; the windows 7 is 64 bit btw also as it was the first time i had it up and running. Any help would be appreciated im going crazzy trying to fix this.

 

[Crispy]

Go here Creative Worldwide Support and select your X-Fi sound card and download the latest drivers from he Creative site not ASUS there drivers are always out of date.

 

[Siema]

Ubuntu 9.1, Supreme F/X X-Fi Oem, Windows 7, no sound

Tried that, my card isnt supported by them and the drivers im using right now in theory are working...just no sound coming out of my sound card...someone please help im going crazy... I will never put linux on my machine agian if someone can help me fix this. Ubuntu is great and all but this is rediculous. Ive read through some other forums and seen a couple of others with this problem but they all said it was fixed with shutting down linux and booting into windows instead of just rebooting. So far i think im the only one who ubuntu 9.1 just broke my sound

 

[stormy13]

Go here Creative Worldwide Support and select your X-Fi sound card and download the latest drivers from he Creative site not ASUS there drivers are always out of date.

That would be OK except that he doesn't have a X-Fi. What he has is an ADI/Soundmax based onboard sound card that gets to use some of the X-Fi software. He has to get the drivers and a 7 compatible version (if his isn't already) directly from Asus, Creative has nothing to do with it.

 

[Siema]

Not supported by Creative, Asus drivers horrible

I did that I have correct drivers, i used the ones that came off my Mobo CD which I have used and worked before. The ones off Asus's Site took me forever to download then they sucked and didnt install properlly or work properly. I def went through about 7 sets of drivers and the original ones that used to work are hands down the best with ease of installation. There must be something else, I already checked all my cables, tried a million drivers, windows shows that sounds are playing i just don't hear any. Any ideas? Need any more information, feel free to ask.

 

[Siema]

BTW here is more info on my hardware if it helps,

ASUS Crosshair III Formula AM3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD Phenom II X3 720 2.8GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Black Processor

SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 HDCP Ready PCI Express Video Card

Sceptre 1080P 22" WideScreen HDMI Gaming Monitor

DViCO FusionHDTV7 Dual Express DUAL HDTV/Analog TV Tuner Card Also on Board

 

[chev65]

Maybe this setting needs some attention. Set to DVD quality 48000.

 

[Siema]

No change

Set my quality to DVD and no change....

Also checked the two boxes below it that i did not have checked...

I feel like my computer problems are always unsolvable, please help so i dont have to buy a new sound card...

 

[ZaLiTH]

I originally had a copy of windows 7 on my pc and decided that i wanted to try out ubuntu 9.1. Well after a couple days of playing on ubuntu i load windows and notice i have no sound. Sound in Ubuntu still works. I get tired of linux and making the switch back to windows decide to install windows 7 clean over my previous dual boot setup figuring that with a clean install sound should work flawlessly. Well now after hours and hours of installing creative and x-fi and asus drivers i dont know what to do. I put the previously working drivers i had on, the ones that came on my mobo cd, instead of the website. Windows says everything is working fine and the sound icon even moves when i play a song or something but no sound whatsoever. Please help and tell me that linux didnt screw my system up !!!

I highly doubt that installing Linux would've permanently changed or damaged anything on your system... Have you tried cleaning the existing drivers and installing only the drivers you know to have worked previously?

I'd suggest this: download Driver Sweeper and clean off all audio drivers, then restart and install the drivers you had working previously. If it is software or driver related, then that should sort it out.

Another ideo would be to check Windows Updates for drivers; the updater in Windows 7 does also check for driver updates along with Windows updates, but they're generally found under the 'Optional Updates' list which aren't downloaded by default.

Edit: I know this thread has been quiet for a while, but I hate seeing people having problems and not coming to a solution, and it doesn't look like this problem was really solved....

 

[Kquid]

I am having the exact same problem, installed ubuntu 2 days ago and last night I noticed that the sound that it makes when entering a folder was getting a little weird, like it was coming in double and with bad quality, everything else was fine (Videos, Winamp, Youtube). I also installed service pack 1 last night and the sound was working fine except for the click thing already mentioned.

Today in the morning I woke up and started my PC and there was no sound.
Windows says there's nothing wrong with my drivers or sound card, the file runs and says its playing but no sound comes out.

-Checked all the settings and tried different ones with no success;
-Re installed my drivers while on service pack 1, different drivers and also the same ones that used to work, no success;
-Disabled my Sound Card for a certain amount of time, no success.
-Uninstalled Service Pack 1 and did it all again, no success.

I don't know if this problem was solved i do wish it was cause i don't like the idea of waiting a year or more to get my sound to work. So someone please help me, pretty please.

PS: On Linux it is still working without any problem, so it's no cable or hardware problem.

 

[Kquid]

Ok so after a long research on this matter I found a topic which explained the problem, it affects people who have both Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distros and Windows installed in dual boot mode, i don't know about other distros.
It's a problem with Pulseaudio, it mutes the sound card and resets the volume to 0. I won't give much details about it because I don't understand it completely, maybe not even a little bit.

You only get this problem if you boot to Linux and reboot to Windows.

A quick way of solving it is shutting down your computer and booting directly to Windows, though when you reboot to Linux it won't cut your sound immediately it might do it after a couple of times (after a few tries I did).

There are 2 other solutions I found on forums, which can fix this problem permanently, although this is a problem that affects the sound in Windows, I haven't found a solution that can be done in Windows and since this is a Windows 7 forum I'll just post the links to those who have to deal with this in Linux.

1-Edit the Pulseaudio line that causes this : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/453395

2-Remove Pulseaudio: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty – Keeping the beast Pulseaudio at bay « Tux’s idyllic life.

Hope this helps