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Hi all, I had Windows 8 x64 installed and working fine until my SDD decided to die
I've re-installed Win8 today and I can't get the sound working. I can't remember if I had to install a driver last time.
In device manager there was just 4 drivers called "High Definition Audio Device" and in the playback properties it only had digital output, there wasn't any speakers.
I've tried installing Windows 7 drivers and I then get a "VIA HD Audio Device" in device manager and speakers in the playback properties but the sound is really bad with lots of noise.
Any help?
UPDATE:
I've found this:
"As far as I know that whoever having the a VIA VT1818 or any other VIA HDA chipset, they have to make sure that these things won’t work properly with Windows 8 HDA driver. The cause is due to the broken enumerator which will not let you to find the output devices. Digitally it works fine but not with the output speakers. You have to download the Windows 7 drivers and install them manually. When you do the manual installation of Windows 7 driver, the output devices being detected but as the "robot sound". Now go to the Device manager> VIA HD Audio Deck and manually roll back to the Microsoft supplied driver. Like this way sound settings will be restored."
I've tried this but when you roll back the driver you loose the speaker output again.
UPDATE PART 2:
I gave up and re-installed Windows 7, but I noticed that I had the exact same problem until I installed the audio driver, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that VIA make a Windows 8 driver for the VT1818s. It's still strange that I got it to work the first time I installed Windows 8
I've re-installed Win8 today and I can't get the sound working. I can't remember if I had to install a driver last time.
In device manager there was just 4 drivers called "High Definition Audio Device" and in the playback properties it only had digital output, there wasn't any speakers.
I've tried installing Windows 7 drivers and I then get a "VIA HD Audio Device" in device manager and speakers in the playback properties but the sound is really bad with lots of noise.
Any help?
UPDATE:
I've found this:
"As far as I know that whoever having the a VIA VT1818 or any other VIA HDA chipset, they have to make sure that these things won’t work properly with Windows 8 HDA driver. The cause is due to the broken enumerator which will not let you to find the output devices. Digitally it works fine but not with the output speakers. You have to download the Windows 7 drivers and install them manually. When you do the manual installation of Windows 7 driver, the output devices being detected but as the "robot sound". Now go to the Device manager> VIA HD Audio Deck and manually roll back to the Microsoft supplied driver. Like this way sound settings will be restored."
I've tried this but when you roll back the driver you loose the speaker output again.
UPDATE PART 2:
I gave up and re-installed Windows 7, but I noticed that I had the exact same problem until I installed the audio driver, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that VIA make a Windows 8 driver for the VT1818s. It's still strange that I got it to work the first time I installed Windows 8
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- System Manufacturer/Model
- REVO PC
- CPU
- AMD Phenom II x6 1100T 3300MHz
- Motherboard
- ASUS
- Memory
- 8GB DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Geforce GTX460