Solved Installed Nvidia GT 430 = No Sound

[SailingNut]

Hi all,

I've heard of others having similar problems but I could not find a solution that works for me.

I have a Win7 x86 machine that was working just fine with onboard video. I then bought a Galaxy GT 430 and installed the latest (260.99) drivers from the Nvidia site. Now win7 says that I have no audio devices installed.

I downloaded and installed the latest realtek drivers, but Win7 still says I have no audio devices installed.

Help is greatly appreciated!

 

[stormy13]

First thing would be do double check in the bios that the onboard audio is still enabled. It is possible that the bios auto-disabled it when it detected the audio built in to the new video card.

 

[SailingNut]

Unfortunately, onboard chipset is still enabled in BIOS.

That would have been a nice easy fix!

 

[SailingNut]

Well I was able to solve the problem myself by playing around!

I went into device manager an selected one of the NVidia audio devices and selected "uninstall." I also noticed a device under "other devices" called media and I did the same for that device.

Next I rebooted and when it came back up Windows recognized and installed everything properly.

 

[tsmpls]

Awesome, that was my exact problem too! Incidentally, I have a GeForce GTX 460 as well.