I take this part back. it seems Realtek quietly made updated 6.0.8777.1 FF00 and FF01 HDA driver packages near the end of August that have added Win7 WHQL compatibility.
there are also new 6.0.8781.1 FF00/FF0C drivers that are also compatible with Win7
6.0.8799.1 is what I am using now... and it did happen again... it goes away after a little while... but is still annoying...
it only happens after install and reboot... once then goes away.... ie. the audio works fine after that and after other reboots..
I ended up just using windows build in audio driver cause the realtek one takes away room correction and loudness equalization which I sometimes use
and I use equalizer apo for other more specific calibrations. tweaking speaker response removing resonances and peaks.
what computer are you using, realflow100? My old HP pavilion media center m8417c desktop PC using Realtek ALC888S audio has the Room Correction option available (need to be using 5.1 or 7.1 speakers to use this option - it won't work with quadraphonic 4/4.1 nor with stereo 2/2.1 speaker configs) - see pic below
And when I install any new Realtek HDA driver on my HP computer, they always enable Loudness Equalization by default (it's an HP thing as that behavior happens on many HP brand desktop/laptop PCs)
Do you have another computer that uses Realtek audio where you can reproduce this problem, Melchior? or are you only getting this problem with your Asus board?
When I install new Realtek HDA drivers, I always "clean install" them, meaning I uninstall the old drivers, reboot and install the new ones fresh and reboot again for the new drivers to take effect. I never, never install new versions on top of old ones.
I use the default setup.exe to install.. so it forces the uninstall reboot install reboot... sequence...
its after that process of the last reboot I get no audio for a length of time it goes away and doesn't happen again... it was not doing it before... version.. I don't recall when it started happening.. but it was recent... some time in the last 10 builds...
I have an very old laptop Toshiba that has an old Realtek audio chip....
I'm on an HP 8300 SFF with windows 7 pro 64-bit
aww come on Melchior, you can do better than that since there are so many kinds of "old" Toshiba laptops. run either Hwinfo or Speccy to determine the series & model no. of that Toshiba laptop [I suspect it may be using a Realtek ALC269 audio chip - you'll have to run the Realtek HD Audio Manager app (either RtkNGUI64.exe or RAVCpl64.exe,) then click on the "i" icon on the bottom right hand corner of that app to display the Realtek audio chip model and driver version, like this example below - I run this on my old HP m8417c computer and Realtek HD Audio Manager showed the following]:
at least realflow100 is more specific in mentioning what kind of HP computer he's using though I would like for him to run the Realtek HD Audio Manager app and gather the model # of the Realtek chip being used on there
is this your computer?
its a 2008 Toshiba Satellite with Windows 7 ULTIMATE SP1 x64
I just didn't feel like booting it up...
running ALC268 and driver version v6.0.1.8224
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