Realtek audio drivers (intel motherboard) does not work for win 7,

[jraju]

HI,
I have audacity for audio recording. I bought a headphone with mike. Intel mother board sound card which i have been using in windows xp, is not working in windows 7. When i Installed win7, it auto detected the HD audio drivers from Microsoft and updated to win 7. There is no problem in audio playback, but only in recording. I plugged in the pink jacket at the rear for mike, but the recording tab shows that in front jack. I do not have audio jacks in my front panel. How come this?
I went to Realtek and downloaded their specific drivers from this link and it install but windows alert compatibility of these drivers , by saying that it has no signature alert. If i install despite warning, it installs and somehow show. But, the microsoft sound icon still remains in the tray and it only has the sound meter control. If i click realtek nothing happens. How to solve this problem ?
I have one pink, one green and another blue jack at the back and nothing in front. Pl help
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[jraju]

Hi,
And why the mike jack is shown in front instead of its usual plugged in position at the rear of the computer

I have problem with the realtek audio drivers, which was supplied by the vendor intel. INtel totally stopped support for this product at their web site. The peculiar problem is when i downloaded the authors drivers for vista, Which they say support win 7 also, the windows shows compatibility alert and if i click on for the online solution, it goes to the same page from where i downloaded the drivers.
It is a curse to have the intel mother board to have the xp version driver and now they would not support. Hell to them. Now even Intel interactive utility, when clicked, show that i do not have intel desk top board alert.Funny is int it?. Moreover if i download their offline utility, they show, the mother board details as intel desktop.
So, really what is the solution that would work for me?
If i just installed and reboot, the win7 os auto detects and update the drivers for sound, invariably microsoft HD audio drivers. When i insert the mike in Pink jack at rear, it shows, in front.

When i plug the mike at the rear of the PC, the Microsoft recording device tab show it as if i plugged in front. I do not have any jack . how to change this to the rear position.
When i was using Realtek, there was no problem. How to disable in Microsoft HD recording devices tab.

 

[Shimshom]

Would be very helpful if your System Specs details were more complete and what kind of motherboard is inter gav 915 as without knowing your motherboard to start with it's very difficult to guess where to start trouble shooting. It's possible your motherboard is simply too old and doesn't support Win 7 regardless and time for an upgrade or maybe, as you have no front audio jacks, the front panel sound header doesn't have the required jumpers on it and other possibilities. Have you tried installing a different sound card

 

[jraju]

The last point in your answer, i have not changed the sound card . Ok it is old mother board intel desktop d915 gav . When i bought , they have supplied a cd, which contains the audio drivers. Simple sound drivers are getting automatically updated when i boot and it is thro window update. It is automatic process. But what about specific requirements such as recording. I tried to plug the headphone mike jack or orindary mike in the pink jack at the rear side, it shows it in the front position. As i have no support from Intel for this model, i tried to download the driver from Realtek . It would not allow, and even if i installed it , it would alert compatibliity issue and when i click for solution, it goes to the same download page, from where i downloaded the driver. when i insert the original cd, to install the original, it shows error message that i do not have any intel mother board.
I even plugged out the cmos battery to remove any bios update and then also it will not allow the download from the cd.
I want to record a song using audacity. Pl. What more information is needed

 

[Shimshom]

According to Intel this motherboard has no Win 7 support (https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=&ProductID=1673&ProdId=1673) so if you have one lying around try a different sound card and disable the on-board sound from the BIOS or it's time to update

 

[jraju]

I have downloaded the required driver and i could see that Realtek is the audio driver in the Device Manager. Now , could you say how to change the settings. The link is
Download Win7_Win8_Win81_R275.exe free - Realtek High Definition Audio Driver for Windows 7 / 8 / Vista
I got only alert from windows not to download from unknown source. But no problem .I enabled continue button and it shows on reboot.
Please tell the solution. The last resort is change ok. Hi, Thanks very much shimshom
Should i have to change the mother board or could i buy support sound card? cost pl

 

[jraju]

Hi,
I am enclosing the png of mike, playback and dev mgr for easy reference.
I could now see the Pink rear in my mic connection
I could see the Green jack in my playback speaker in window tab. So, now the Realtek drivers are working. How to change the record or test the voice in mike in recording

 

[Shimshom]

probably the cheapest option is to get a sound card as upgrading the motherboard will also require new CPU and RAM and many are available on Ebay like this one Creative Sound Blaster. Not sure where you are but sound cards are now cheap so don't go overboard just buy a middle of the road one as your computer is too old to warrant an expensive one. When you install the driver are you able to open the Realtek HD Audio manager in the Control Panel as it gives further options to assign the different input/output jacks but I really do think it's best to just get a sound card as even if you get it going with the motherboard one you'll get very average recording quality which you'll probably get regardless since your system specs are not great for sound production

 

[jraju]

Thanks Shimshom
I could now record with window sound recorder. I tested. Thanks for the driver i got from this link. It is 221 mb size. The driver from Realtek is waste and does not serve any purpose, nor the support from it. Ofcourse, the quality of sound is also good.
Would you know the settings that one should do to record in Audacity, a nice free program for all sound effects.
I could play thro mike is real improvement. But in audacity , the recorded voice never heard although i could see the recording graphs in Audacity.

 

[fireberd]

If you have the generic, basic function, Windows installed "High Definition Audio Device (Codec) it does not provide all the functions that the hardware's driver (e.g. RealTek) does.

With the correct driver, plugging into either jack should work.

 

[jraju]

Hi, Firebred,
I downloaded the correct version from file cluster com. the size is 221mb. The realtek site downloads are waste with regard to support and new versions. How could one not support for previous sound cards with the drivers. I else where downloaded the drivers and it now works. It shows the pink in the rear correctly as before. The realtek site has one 106 mb driver for win 7, but it never worked. It does not even install. It says there is no drivers in this package for the system.
I will give the link in my next reply. Thanks. i could test with the connection now. My question is How Microsoft shows a non plugged jack in front as mike, if i plug a mike at the rear?

 

[fireberd]

The Microsoft driver is not a full feature driver, it is a generic driver and may not show or process all I/O functions correctly.

For current RealTek sound hardware the drivers on the RealTek site work perfectly. For older hardware, there may or may not be useable drivers on the RealTek site.

 

[jraju]

Hi, I failed to give the link in my previous posts. The link is here and it is free
Realtek High Definition Audio Driver for Windows 7 / 8 / Vista 2.75 Free Download
What is the audacity connection settings, Could i use an amplifier in the Blue Jack at the rear and record the song with sound effects. Your reply link ,for the previous post, has gone to nowhere. I came to this site and look for myposts to get to this link
You see the difference in the file size. This is 231 mb and realtek original site has 106 mb. Why this difference for the same version. The Realtek link is
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

 

[erpster4]

there are different Realtek HD Audio driver downloads on the Realtek web site, jraru.
The web site will not allow you to directly link to the downloads because there's a licensing agreement page that you have to accept first before accessing the downloads.

I know, I also use an Intel board (and Intel D101GGC) board that uses Realtek HD Audio ALC861. The R2.75 (6.0.1.7246) and newer drivers are no longer digitally signed by Microsoft for Realtek ALC861 chips but I did click on OK to accept using the "unsigned" drivers on my computer. the Realtek HD audio on the Intel D101GGC board is using hardware device ID of HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0861&SUBSYS_8086C601

what is the hardware ID of your Realtek audio device? Open Device Manager, expand the Sound, video and game controllers section, double click on Realtek High Definition Audio to view its properties, then click on the Details tab and change the Property from Device Description to Hardware Ids.

Also use the CPU-Z tool and click on the Mainboard tab of that program to gather info about your Intel motherboard and post it here.

 

[fireberd]

The R2.75 driver from the Realtek site supplies all the needed functions (for compatible hardware). I have it on all my PC's - two desktops and one Laptop. There is no problem downloading directly from RealTek. The size of the file from the other site suggests something else has been added to the download file (maybe malware?).

A previous PC had an Intel Motherboard (older system) and the direct from RealTek drivers did not work in that system. I had to use the drivers supplied by Intel. Same way some older Dell systems require Dell supplied drivers (non-Dell drivers did not work).

 

[jraju]

Hi, Fireberd,
Down in the link, there are downloads nearing the size, i quoted. What is the difference between executable only and the other down under the linked page. What the other means. Does executable means only playpack support as given by Microsoft drivers. The executable is highlighted in the link and the other version which is larger has not been highlighted. This creates confusion to users to which one has to download.
Pl see erpster post alerting possible malware . I checked with avast and MSC, and found nothing.
Pl tell me which has to be downloaded from the Realtek link . There are two files there one zip and one exe below the exe only (highlighted in blue). The date and size also varies with the two links i have given in my replies. Please confirm so that i could avoid hidden malwares. The realtek download link shows 226.668 mb where as the other site (file cluster.com) shows 231 mb? I tried to download the Readme file, but could not

 

[fireberd]

I haven't looked at the downloads but if one is an "exe" and another is a "zip" file there will be a difference in size. A zip file is a compressed file. An exe can be the full file, or it can be a compressed file that is self extracting.

 

[jraju]

Hi, How could there be difference for the same version of some program in different sites. Even though i checked for malware by avast and Mse, the antivius by passes malwares in some cases in General. Shall i try realtek exe file containing about 226 mbs and test it.
What is the difference between executable only in the Realtek and the same Exe down under the same. I will try with that download.

 

[jraju]

Hi, Erpster,
The details of hardware id as per the download is
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0880&SUBSYS_8086E203&REV_1008
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0880&SUBSYS_8086E203
As per your post , that is
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0861&SUBSYS_8086C601

 

[jraju]

Hi, fireberd,
Regarding file size, i checked that the bytes when converted to mb , gives the correct, ie,231,686,082 bytes/(1024*1024) gives 220.953 or 221 mb. So the links are from realtek only. I queried regarding the executable file only has 106 mb, where as the other exe full contains 221 mb. Pl see Realtek link.