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    The Dreaded "No audio device is installed"

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by cheebamaster, Mar 23, 2009.

  1. cheebamaster

    cheebamaster Notebook Guru

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    Hey, I recently was having problems with my Realtek audio...the program wasnt responding to changes I made so I tried to uninstall it from Control panel. It gave me setup.exe has stopped working error so I manually unistalled it and then rebooted.

    The realtek device was mostly gone but I was not getting any audio from my system, so I installed the newer version of realtek and rebooted. Still no sound. I went to my device manager and uninstalled the driver for sound an rebooted. still no sound...

    I have searched forums and tried things for days, and nothing seems to work. I've done pretty much all the basic things I need to do in order to try to get it working again.

    In addition, when I plug a USB headset device in, and uninstall the driver from device manager, I DO get sound in my headphones, but as soon as I unplug them, no sound anymore. There is a little red x on my audio device on the task bar and when I scroll over it, it says "High Definition Audio Device" but it still doesn't recognize it?

    I am using a Sager np5796 and Vista 64 bit Ultimate.

    If you have any idea on what I can do next, it is really appreciated

    Thanks!
     
    cheebamaster, Mar 23, 2009
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Sounds like there might be a hardware failure in your sound system... do you have some sort of diagnostics utility (provided by your OEM) with which you could test the hardware? It doesn't work with a standard (non-USB) headset, does it?
     
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  3. cheebamaster

    cheebamaster Notebook Guru

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    No, it doesnt work with a non USB headset. and no, I do not have a diagnostics utility...where could i get one....and what if I just went out and bought a new sound device from bestbuy or something? would that fix it?
     
    cheebamaster, Mar 23, 2009
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  4. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    If your onboard audio device is indeed broken (and not like your speakers or something), an external sound device (like a USB, ExpressCard, PCMCIA sound card) will get you around that problem (meaning it should give you sound again), though it isn't a terribly elegant solution.
     
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  5. cheebamaster

    cheebamaster Notebook Guru

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    alright i'm really mad....I went to Best Buy and bought the X fi sound USB card and installed it. The device installed successfully and I rebooted my computer and plugged my headphones into it, only to get no sound again?

    What is wrong?! When I enter my Bios, I hear a beep, so i know my sound is there.
     
    cheebamaster, Mar 23, 2009
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