TortoiseWrath
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My computer's onboard audio recently stopped working. The Realtek High Definition Audio Speakers suddenly show as "Not plugged in" in the Playback devices dialog.
Coinciding with this, five new devices, all "Speakers," all showing as "Ready" or one of the defaults, have appeared: WsAudio_DeviceS(1) through WsAudio_DeviceS(5).
None of these WsAudio_DeviceS produce any audio when tested; I have tried this with both my speakers and some headphones.
The Realtek Digital Output still appears as "Ready," which isn't useful, given that I don't have any S/PDIF devices.
I have tried connecting some wireless headphones with a Bluetooth dongle I had lying around, but I couldn't get them to work very well (nor could I back when my speakers were working). Recording with a USB microphone works fine, but I haven't tried it through the onboard audio Line In jack.
Looking at other, similar problems on forums, I found many people who were able to resolve this problem by changing the settings in the Realtek HD Audio Manager, which I don't have for my MSI PH61A-P35 motherboard. The only effect that reinstalling the audio drivers had for me was uninstalling the drivers for my USB keyboard for no reason.
Does anybody have any ideas about how I can get audio to work? I haven't been able to find my old PCI soundcard, but I'll try that if I find it.
Coinciding with this, five new devices, all "Speakers," all showing as "Ready" or one of the defaults, have appeared: WsAudio_DeviceS(1) through WsAudio_DeviceS(5).
None of these WsAudio_DeviceS produce any audio when tested; I have tried this with both my speakers and some headphones.
The Realtek Digital Output still appears as "Ready," which isn't useful, given that I don't have any S/PDIF devices.
I have tried connecting some wireless headphones with a Bluetooth dongle I had lying around, but I couldn't get them to work very well (nor could I back when my speakers were working). Recording with a USB microphone works fine, but I haven't tried it through the onboard audio Line In jack.
Looking at other, similar problems on forums, I found many people who were able to resolve this problem by changing the settings in the Realtek HD Audio Manager, which I don't have for my MSI PH61A-P35 motherboard. The only effect that reinstalling the audio drivers had for me was uninstalling the drivers for my USB keyboard for no reason.
Does anybody have any ideas about how I can get audio to work? I haven't been able to find my old PCI soundcard, but I'll try that if I find it.
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- I call it "Coho."
- OS
- Windows 7 Ultimate x64
- CPU
- Core i5-2500K
- Motherboard
- MSI PH61A-P35 (B3)
- Memory
- Team Elite 2x4GB DDR3-1333 TED38192M1333HC9DC
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD Graphics 3000
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD Audio ALC887
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Hanns.G HZ251 (on DVI), Acer X233H (on VGA)
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080 on both monitors
- Hard Drives
- OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSD AGT3-25SAT3-60G;
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB HD103UJ;
WD Caviar Blue 640GB WD6400AAKS-00A7B0;
Some random 80GB PATA drive that was sitting in my case for years, not plugged into anything, until I found it on January 2, 2012
- Case
- It is made of aluminum.
- Cooling
- stock
- Keyboard
- Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 v1.0
- Mouse
- Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000
- Internet Speed
- 1.5Mbps and paying $30/mo. for it (please... help... me...)
- Other Info
- Built it December 2011-January 2012.
The onboard audio seems to be broken, as of May 2012.
