Sound from right side only after windows wakes up

shybull

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When Windows awakens I have sound only from the right side. If I do a restart the sound comes from both right and left. I have reinstalled audio drivers (onboard Asus N4A78 Pro VIA). But when it falls asleep and awakens, same problem no sound from left side. I originally thought it was my 2.1 speakers and replaced them but have same problem with these. Gotta be a Windows issue. Any ideas? It only happens when Windows goes into a deep sleep.
 

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Usually, drivers are at the root of sleep problems. Update the Video drivers from the AMD site, along with the latest sound driver from Asus. I see you have reinstalled the sound driver but was it the latest as noted?

Another thing that you can try. Go to the Device Manager, RIGHT click on the entry for the sound device and then LEFT Click "Uninstall" (DO NOT check th box to also uninstall the drivers). Then restart the PC and when Windows starts it will detect and reinstall the Sound. Sometimes this will put the sound on a different shared IRQ (Interrupt) and fix flakey things.
 

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I uninstalled the onboard sound like you said, Windows finds and installs it and it works fine until it falls asleep and wakes up. No sound from the left side again. The drivers I have are the latest from the Asus web site. I've looked around and played around with the device settings and the only way I can get stereo is when I restart the pc. But when it falls asleep, the same problem happens when it wakes up. I've read online where other people have had a problem with no sound after windows wakes up. But those posts were from few years ago. Maybe I'll try a separate sound card.
 

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AMD Phenom X4 965 3.40 GHZ
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Asus M4A78 Pro
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8 Gigs
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ATI Radeon 5700
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Onboard Via
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I don't think it's just the sound card. Video drivers as I noted have been known to cause problems. Use the latest driver for the Video card from the AMD (ATI) site.

Other than a driver, it's something to do with Windows and that would be a question for a different forum section. It's not "only" a sound problem.
 

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Video Drivers are up to date. I'll just keep looking around

Thanks
 

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Windows 7 64 bitAMD Phenom X4 965 3.40 GHZ8 GigsATI Radeon 5700
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Windows 7 64 bit
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AMD Phenom X4 965 3.40 GHZ
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Asus M4A78 Pro
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ATI Radeon 5700
Sound Card
Onboard Via
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Acer 21 inch
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640 and 750
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Thermaltake 750
My audio drivers were the latest version they had at Asus but I noticed it said Beta. So I just installed the older driver. No I'll wait and see what happens. I'll keep you posted.
 

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Windows 7 64 bitAMD Phenom X4 965 3.40 GHZ8 GigsATI Radeon 5700
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Windows 7 64 bit
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AMD Phenom X4 965 3.40 GHZ
Motherboard
Asus M4A78 Pro
Memory
8 Gigs
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ATI Radeon 5700
Sound Card
Onboard Via
Monitor(s) Displays
Acer 21 inch
Hard Drives
640 and 750
PSU
Thermaltake 750
So far so good. Sound from both speakers when Windows 7 wakes up from deep sleep. When I installed Window 7 (back in December) I went and got the latest drivers for everything I needed. I didn't notice the Audio drivers said Beta. The date on them was 2010.06.24. Long time for being Beta? Hopefully going back to the old drivers did the trick.

Thanks
 

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Windows 7 64 bitAMD Phenom X4 965 3.40 GHZ8 GigsATI Radeon 5700
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Home made
OS
Windows 7 64 bit
CPU
AMD Phenom X4 965 3.40 GHZ
Motherboard
Asus M4A78 Pro
Memory
8 Gigs
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon 5700
Sound Card
Onboard Via
Monitor(s) Displays
Acer 21 inch
Hard Drives
640 and 750
PSU
Thermaltake 750
Thanks for the update. Keep your fingers crossed.

Just trying to help another Floridian.
 

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Intel i7 6700K
Motherboard
ASUS ROG Maximus VIII Hero
Memory
16GB Corsair Dominator
Graphics Card(s)
Intel CPU Graphics
Sound Card
RealTek
Monitor(s) Displays
27" Dell S2719dgf
Screen Resolution
2560X1440
Hard Drives
1 TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD for Win 10 Pro
500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD for Win 10 Insider
2 TB drive for backup
PSU
EVGA Supernova 750G2
Case
BeQuiet Silent Base 600
Cooling
Deepcool Captain 120EX
Keyboard
Microsoft Wireless 2000
Mouse
Microsoft wireless
Internet Speed
100 MB/sec (Cable)
Antivirus
Microsoft Defender and Malwarebytes
Browser
Edge/Firefox
Other Info
Cakewalk (Sonar) by BandLab and Studio One 4.1 Pro recording studio software. MOTU 896Mk3 Hybrid recording interface, Frontier Tranzport wireless control unit, Behringer X-Touch Control Surface.
Five USB connected optical drives for CD Audio production using Nero BurningROM
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