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    2 different sound drivers in Acer Laptop

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by julio99, May 1, 2014.

  1. julio99

    julio99 Notebook Guru

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    I was looking at my drivers yesterday in Device Manager and noticed that there were 2 separate HD drivers in the sound section of Device Manager. There was a Realtek HD and a AMD HD driver. It's also like that in Video. There are 2 there also. The thing with that is the video drivers are both listed in Acer drivers. The Sound driver only has the one from Realtek listed. Is this common to have 2 drivers running in sound?
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  2. ellalan

    ellalan Notebook Deity

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    Yes, it's quite normal.
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    AMD audio device is meant for HDMI audio out.
     
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