Realtek audio manager completely missing

Pacoroto

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Hi I need help, can't find a solution and this is slowly driving me crazy...

I installed the realtek drivers and they appear as installed in the control panel but it does not show up at the start up of windows, I have tried installing the latest drivers from realtek official page and the lates of my motherboard (ASUS P8 H61-MX) but they just do not work propertly, audio manager is missing, it is nowhere in the task bar or at the panel control nor in "Sound"
This is what I do not have and what I want, please help.
REaltek_HD_Audio_ManagerBoost.jpg

Thanks.
 

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When you go to Control Panel and View by: Large icons, "Realtek HD Audio Manager" is not there?
 

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What do you have listed in the Device Manager, Sound section?

This is what my RealTek HD Audio Manager looks like

Win 7 RealTek HD Audio Manager.JPG
 

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Well, according to the MB specs, you have this sound codec : "VIA Vinyl HD Audio codec" so you need drivers for that.
 

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Well, according to the MB specs, you have this sound codec : "VIA Vinyl HD Audio codec" so you need drivers for that.
Can't I change that? in my motherboards drivers are the VIA and Realtek audio drivers, the VIA drivers make my microphone sound like crap while the Realtek does not.
Here are the drivers: Here
 

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The ASUS downloads for the motherboard you have listed is VIA. I don't know how you got RealTek to install if you have VIA.

Version 6.0.1.10100
Copy Link
Description VIA Audio Driver V6.0.1.10100 for Windows XP 32bit & Vista 32bit & Win7 32bit---(WHQL).
VIA Audio Driver V6.0.1.10100 for Windows XP 64bit & Vista 64bit & Win7 64bit---(WHQL).
File Size
123,98 (MBytes) 2011.12.27 update
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The ASUS downloads for the motherboard you have listed is VIA. I don't know how you got RealTek to install if you have VIA.

Version 6.0.1.10100 Copy Link
DescriptionVIA Audio Driver V6.0.1.10100 for Windows XP 32bit & Vista 32bit & Win7 32bit---(WHQL).
VIA Audio Driver V6.0.1.10100 for Windows XP 64bit & Vista 64bit & Win7 64bit---(WHQL).
File Size
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yea, I don't know too... there are 2 motherboards with that name aparently...
this one: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8H61MX/#support
and this one: https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/P8H61MX_USB3/#support
one with USB 3 and one without it (Also one of those have win 8.1 compativilty, wich is the OS that I have) I do not own the USB MB, but I just tested BOTH drivers for the one without USB 3 and they showed up and error, VIA is not compatible with that OS, but the VIA drivers for the USB 3 MB make my mic have a buzzing sound... What sould I do?
Thanks for all the support by the way guys.:thumb:
 

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Ok, just looked at the specs for both MBs, they both have same codec chip, only Realtec on them is for network, so that's ruled out. Drivers for MB with USB3 (probably newer one) is for Win8 and for the USB3 one is for XP/Vista/win7. So, if you installed drivers for the USB3 one, they should be appropriate ones as they are for Win8, (they work for you I assume ) but microphone is making buzzing sound which I think is not directly result of drivers. I might not be of much help further because I didn't have or worked with VIA sound for some time but there are some things you can check. First thing would be to ascertain that microphone is not damaged and works fine somewhere else, (first things, first, I always say). Loose or damaged ground on mic cable or connector can do that. Don't know what's control panel for that driver and if there's any but maybe you can try to adjust mic gain and or try another microphone. I know that one of mine is noisy when gain is adjusted too high but the other one is not at same settings. There are at least 3 types of microphones, Dynamic (magnetic), Chrystal and capacitive, the last one being most common for computers and such devices. Chrystal ones give strongest signal and magnetic are the noisiest and least sensitive, Also it's not unheard of that some MBs are "noisier" and more sensitive to electrical noise than some other ones.
I'm afraid that just changing drivers would not help if they don't have proper adjustments.
 

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Ok, just looked at the specs for both MBs, they both have same codec chip, only Realtec on them is for network, so that's ruled out. Drivers for MB with USB3 (probably newer one) is for Win8 and for the USB3 one is for XP/Vista/win7. So, if you installed drivers for the USB3 one, they should be appropriate ones as they are for Win8, (they work for you I assume ) but microphone is making buzzing sound which I think is not directly result of drivers. I might not be of much help further because I didn't have or worked with VIA sound for some time but there are some things you can check. First thing would be to ascertain that microphone is not damaged and works fine somewhere else, (first things, first, I always say). Loose or damaged ground on mic cable or connector can do that. Don't know what's control panel for that driver and if there's any but maybe you can try to adjust mic gain and or try another microphone. I know that one of mine is noisy when gain is adjusted too high but the other one is not at same settings. There are at least 3 types of microphones, Dynamic (magnetic), Chrystal and capacitive, the last one being most common for computers and such devices. Chrystal ones give strongest signal and magnetic are the noisiest and least sensitive, Also it's not unheard of that some MBs are "noisier" and more sensitive to electrical noise than some other ones.
I'm afraid that just changing drivers would not help if they don't have proper adjustments.
Ok just found this: Click
there are 3 MB but mine is R2.0, I instaled VIA drivers again from the USB 3 MB and they worked fine now, I deleted previously all the content of VIA and Realtek from my HDD and seems to work now.
Thanks for all the support guys!
 

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