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    Windows 7 Wits end W/ W7 & Sound

    Hello everyone. I am out of ideas for this and am about to trash windows 7 all together and go back to windows XP. My problem is one that I can no longer ignore. The new windows 7 audio API is great when you are the average PC user who watches movies and listens to music. But for those of...
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    Windows 7 No Audio Output Device is installed

    I am running Windows 7 Ultimate x86 on my PC, the sound card is an ES1371/ES1373 which has stopped working and giving a Code 12 in Device Manager. Then on the desktop in the task bar the Speaker Icon has a Red X on it and says that No Audio Output Device is Installed. I have deleted the driver...
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    Windows 7 Soundcard switches itself off when idle

    OK, this has been going on as long as I've had Seven, but it's getting irritating. When my PC hasn't been playing any sound for about 30 secs, the on board audio switches itself off. If I then play some sound, it switches back on and works fine. The trouble is, switching on and off both yield a...
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    Windows 7 No Sound but sound card detected and working

    Hi Everyone... Let me start by saying that I am absolutely stumped, here's my story. The PC in question is a HP P6110Y desktop running windows 7 (32-bit). Everything was working fine, until I installed another video card in the unit. From that point on, my PC has yet to make a sound. My PC...
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    Windows 7 Troubleshooting Sound Issues on Windows 7: Should I Get a Sound Card?

    Like many others I have no sound on my win7 ultimate, I have an ASUS P5SD2-VM motherboard with onboard sound. My Question - If I buy a sound card will that solve the problem and if som how do I disable yhe on board sound? Any help please
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    Windows 7 MOTU 8PRE problems

    Hi all! I just bought myself a MOTU 8PRE FW soundcard. I have it up an running without any problems on my laptop running Win XP/Cubase SX3/Guitar Rig 4 and some other apps. When installing it under Windows 7/Cubase 5 I get extreme distortion. And I mean really extreme distortion. I get...
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    Windows 7 XP Virtualisation & Hardware

    Is there really no way to use the soundcard of the host machine in virtual XP? Regards, Cheemag.
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    Windows 7 Jerking Motion During Gaming

    Hey guys. I've been having some issues with games (Mass Effect 2 and Call of Duty 4) jerking around a lot during gameplay. I've updated my graphics drivers and for the hell of it i updated turbo boost and my sound card drivers. I've also uninstalled a crapload of unnecessary software and...
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    Windows 7 No USB Audio windows 7 x64

    I recently purchased a new PC and I am lacking USB audio on my Razer Megaladon headset. I updated the firmware and the weird thing is that the microphone works but no audio at all. When i try to test the sound I get a "failed to play test tone" error. The device is set as default. And...
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    Windows 7 Troubleshooting Missing Sound on Windows 7 PC with Realtek AC97 Sound Card

    Got this PC from this guy,ran well, BUT - No sound. Please help.Thanks. Specs: AMD Athlon64 X2 4200 4 GB RAM Nvidia 6800GS video card MSI motherboard Model # MS-7125 Chipset: Nvdia - nForce4 - Rev4 Sound card: Realtek , AC97' Running windows 7 Pro - X64
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 stopped running my sound card and my dvd drive

    Both were running fine then after a reboot windows 7 labelled both as unknown devices. now it claims both drivers cannot be located on my computer but they're on there somewhere. THEY WERE BOTH RUNNING. WHAT's THE PROBLEM WITH WIN 7? IT has the most bugs of any OS yet it's becoming almost...
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    Windows 7 Sound Blaster X-Fi no sound after upgrading to W7

    Sound card is Sound Blaster X-Fi, model number stamped on card is SB0460. Machine is Dell Precision 380 w/ Intel Premium D 920, 2.80GHz. 4GB RAM OS upgraded from XP to W7. No sound at all. Control Panel / device manager / sound, video & game controllers shows Creative SB X-Fi (This device is...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 On-board Audio Problem

    Hello, I have the same problem, but with Realtek hd on board Gigabyte GA-EP31-DS3L Intel core2 quad, Realtek High Definition Audio Codec. I've benn at Gigabyte and Realtek site, but coudn't find nothing that work, I wonder if there is a driver in another site like that of Kaveneetrekhi? Thanks
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    Windows 7 Hard Drive Grinding/4sec hang when Simple Tasks are Performed

    I had ignored it for the first few days here on Win7, but now it is being real annoying. First off hardware list. Win7-64-enterprise PhenomII 940 4Gb 1066 Muskin MSI K9A2 Platinum His 4890 1g Audigy 1 pci No raid in use No Overclocking Windows is installed on a 120 ide WD on a separate 14gb...
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    Windows 7 Fresh Install of Windows 7 - Certain Websites load super slowly

    The title says it all, I just installed windows 7 and am having difficulty loading certain websites. Tracert is showing considerable latency between these websites. This isn't an issue for other computers on my network and since its a fresh install I'm sort of at a loss. I tried disabling the...
  16. Windows 7 Just upgraded to 7, getting started, various probs with optical drives, sound card

    Hi Everyone, I've upgraded from XP Pro SP3 to Win7 Home Premium. I'm just getting started with this upgrade and am new to this forum, so I apologize in advance for any posting gaffes. The immediate problems so far: 1. Sound - I have a Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio card, which worked OK the...
  17. Windows 7 Creative X-Fi Extreme Music force MSCONFIG RAM limitation to run without problem.

    I can not use my 4 GB RAM for gaming - since the only way for me to get my Creative X-Fi Extreme Music working properly under Win 7 is to use the memory limitation under MSCONFIG to 4096 kB. I have the latest drivers from Creative and I have attached my CpuZ settings and Win settings for RAM...
  18. Windows 7 blue screen error on the 1st game of stalker sence i installed my Creative SB X-fi titanium

    Hi Since I installed my Creative SB X-Fi Titanium on my PC (with Windows 7 64 bit) i getting BSOD error when I play the first STALKER game and running Skype or Teamspeak 2 in the background. Page_Fault_in_nonpaged_area code: 0x00050 Otherwise the stalker game runs fine without Skype and...
  19. Windows 7 Windows 7 Remote Assistance Easy Connect

    Windows remote assistance works great! Unfortunately I have not been able to use the "Easy Connect" feature lately. I used the Easy Connect before, but one day it shows as I can't. I have uninstalled all applications that I installed when it occurred, updated all drivers, ran the Windows 7...
  20. Windows 7 Computer unresponsive until windows connects to network

    Summary: About a month ago I started to notice my computer taking an extra 2-3 minutes to load all of my startup programs. I disabled all startup programs and Windows took just as long to become usable. I did not install any new programs or change any settings (that I can think of) that...