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Title: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 10, 2011, 11:34:40 PM
I upgraded to windows 7 yesterday and all was going well untill i started to play videos and games. My sound will work for small sounds that come with the computer. These work fine untill i play a youtube video or game, and then the sound will work fine for a few seconds then cut of completly. On youtube videos the sound will play for a few seconds and cuts of and if i pause the video and play it again it starts playing at a super speed. The only fix for this is to unplug then replug the the headphones into the jack. I am pluging the headphones into my keyboard btw, called the G110 gaming keyboard, which is PnP device. I also have an onboard realtek audio device, but since installing 7 it isnt even detected. I also have an audio device built into my video card, windows does detect this one, but i cannot plug in any speakers into the front or back because it won't register them now for some reason. I've already tried updating all the listed drivers, but that didnt work.

Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: jason2074 on January 10, 2011, 11:48:39 PM
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I also have an onboard realtek audio device, but since installing 7 it isnt even detected.
Do you have any added sound device other than the onboard being not detected? If there is no other sound device installed and recognized, then the onboard should be the one to be used. Have you check for the status on your Device/Driver Manager on any marks. Or went to the support site and installed all drivers after the upgrade?
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 11, 2011, 12:24:03 AM
Do you have any added sound device other than the onboard being not detected? If there is no other sound device installed and recognized, then the onboard should be the one to be used. Have you check for the status on your Device/Driver Manager on any marks. Or went to the support site and installed all drivers after the upgrade?

Yes i have the ATI HD audio which is integrated in the video card, it is listed, but it dosnt work either, and ive installed all the doftware i could find for it.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: jason2074 on January 11, 2011, 12:46:48 AM
Please click the link --> http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,61970.0.html (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,61970.0.html)
To know more about what is really installed on your PC. Just follow the instruction and post the Log on your next post.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Allan on January 11, 2011, 05:34:01 AM
After upgrading did you install all drivers starting with the chipset driver (followed by drivers for your video and sound cards)?
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 11, 2011, 07:42:52 PM
Please click the link --> http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,61970.0.html (http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,61970.0.html)
To know more about what is really installed on your PC. Just follow the instruction and post the Log on your next post.

How do i upload the log onto the board, i tried hyperlinking it, but that didn't work.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 11, 2011, 07:44:54 PM
After upgrading did you install all drivers starting with the chipset driver (followed by drivers for your video and sound cards)?

yes I did install all the drivers I could find.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Broni on January 11, 2011, 11:38:58 PM
Is your computer fully Windows 7 ready?
What's the brand a model of it?
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 11, 2011, 11:46:52 PM
Is your computer fully Windows 7 ready?
What's the brand a model of it?

My computer was fully compatible when I ran the scan, but I think that the motherboard isn't being recognized now. When I went to Hp to download motherboard updates for windows 7 ill that was available was lite scribe. The model is hp pavailion a1487c. I have also been told that model has no updates for it, and that person was correct.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Broni on January 11, 2011, 11:51:37 PM
When I go here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4063&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=1847041#N148 there is Win 7 listed in a drop-down menu, but there are no drivers for it at all.
There are drivers for Vista and XP.
Where did you install drivers from?
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 11, 2011, 11:53:53 PM
When I go here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4063&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=1847041#N148 there is Win 7 listed in a drop-down menu, but there are no drivers for it at all.
There are drivers for Vista and XP.
Where did you install drivers from?

I did exactly what you did a few hours ago, and came up with the same results.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Broni on January 11, 2011, 11:55:31 PM
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Where did you install drivers from?
Did you just accept drivers, which were installed by Windows 7?
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 11, 2011, 11:57:59 PM
I'm not sure. When I installed widnows 7 I didn't do the upgrade I just had to do a complete uninstall of XP to windows 7 and i just let it take over from their. Windows 7 did update what it could like the video card and my keyboard and mouse, but other than that i don't  know.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 12, 2011, 12:06:22 AM
I think It's just about time for me to get a new computer anyways, so thanks for everyones help. If anyone finds a solution I'd still like to know,because this one I will give to my dad if i can get the sound working.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Broni on January 12, 2011, 12:11:39 AM
That may be your problem.
Normally Windows 7 DVD will provide most drivers, but if some device doesn't work, the you go to your computer manufacturer site to download missing drivers.
Windows 7 installs its own generic drivers, which may, or may not work.
In your case, HP site is of no help, since there are no drivers for Windows 7.

As Allan mentioned before, the most important is a chipset driver, on which many other drivers (like ethernet, audio, etc.) depend.
If the audio is the only device, which doesn't work properly, you have couple of options.
You can try to find out model of your motherboard and see, if there are any Win 7 drivers available, or buy a separate sound card.

I can see from here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00590499&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&os=4063&product=1847041&sw_lang=, you have ASUS P5LP-LE motherboard.

I went to Asus site: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us, but I can't see your specific motherboard model.

We may need more info.

Download System Information for Windows: http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html to your Desktop.
Get SIW Standalone (English-Only).
Double click on siw.exe to run the program.
Go File>Create Report File>HTML
Save the file to known location.
Zip the file, and attach it to your next reply.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Broni on January 12, 2011, 12:12:29 AM
I'll check on you tomorrow...bed time :)
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 12, 2011, 05:11:46 AM
heres the info

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Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Allan on January 12, 2011, 05:37:56 AM
yes I did install all the drivers I could find.
I don't know what that means. Did you install the chipset driver? What other drivers did you install? And from where?
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: BC_Programmer on January 12, 2011, 07:55:21 AM
Also, if something doesn't have windows 7 drivers you can often use windows Vista drivers instead, because they are usuallyquite similar.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Broni on January 12, 2011, 10:04:28 AM
You have Intel i945P Revision A1 chipset and here is your chipset driver: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=19596&ProdId=2115&lang=eng
Install it and we'll see what happens.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 12, 2011, 03:16:29 PM
sadly none of those solutions worked  :'( but here is a picture of my sound devices if that helps. Now that first device is hooked up and its my keyboard that i am playing sound through, but it cuts of a few seconds into any game or  video, song etc. The other sound device is integrated in my graphics card, I could never get that one working. The one i was using before was the reltec, but it is not listed still.

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Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 12, 2011, 03:18:19 PM
I don't know what that means. Did you install the chipset driver? What other drivers did you install? And from where?
It means I'm cluless and don't know the differnce between chipset drivers and other drivers. I think though that all the info is listed in the file i subbmited above your post.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 12, 2011, 03:23:55 PM
When I downloaded that update for windows vista like someone advised, it gave me an error.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Broni on January 12, 2011, 03:31:06 PM
Do you have any errors in Device Manager?
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Broni on January 12, 2011, 03:41:43 PM
I got this in my email notification:
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Broni your solution did acutaly work to a certain extent. My sound from games is working fine now, however, youtube videos, and music is not.
but I don't see it here.
Hmmm....
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 12, 2011, 06:44:59 PM
I got this in my email notification:but I don't see it here.
Hmmm....

That's because I modified the message. It was working for a short amount of time and then it stoped working again. This is what it did before and still does, with the PnP keyboard jack. I thought it was working because the sound lasted a little longer than it did before, but it did quit on me 30 seconds into the game. The other jacks don't work at all still.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 12, 2011, 06:47:26 PM
Do you have any errors in Device Manager?


Windows hasn't detected any errors, and says nothing is wrong, all that is going on is that reltek isnt listed at all, and the ATI sound card just doesn't work at all.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Broni on January 12, 2011, 06:50:15 PM
I suggest, you spend 15 bucks for a standalone sound card.
Since HP doesn't provide any drivers for Win 7, that would be the easiest solution.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 12, 2011, 06:52:51 PM
I suggest, you spend 15 bucks for a standalone sound card.
Since HP doesn't provide any drivers for Win 7, that would be the easiest solution.

yeah thanks for the help Broni, I think ill just have to do that or revert it back to xp.
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: Broni on January 12, 2011, 06:59:17 PM
Well, if everything else works fine, but sound, I'd stay with 7...
Title: Re: upgraded from XP to windows 7 and now I am having sound problems
Post by: arkbound on January 12, 2011, 07:08:58 PM
Yeah I do like 7 much more, and it is considerbly faster.