Windows 7 No sound with Realtek AC 97 and MSI K8 Neo4 Mainboard

[haakon]

Hi, I have a dualboot PC, Windows 7 and XP Home. Sound works fine when I run XP. In W7 I have no sound from the soundcard on then mainboard, but I am able to get sound via a USB sound device. I have installed the latest drivers for my mainboard and sound device from MSI home page. Could anybody help?

Haakon


BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 22.05.2006
Mainboard : MSI K8 Neo4 (MS-7125)
Chipset : nVidia nForce4
Processor : AMD Athlon 64 3700+ @ 2200 MHz
Physical Memory : 2048 MB
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce 6600 (Prerelease - WDDM 1.0)
Hard Disk : SAMSUNG (250 GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : SONY DVD RW DW-Q28A ATA Device
Monitor Type : BenQ BenQ G2220HD - 22 inches
Network Card : AR5212 802.11abg NIC (3CRDAG675)
Network Card : MV88SE614x PCIe to SATA2 controller Yukon 88E8053 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)
Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate Professional 6.01.7100
DirectX : Version 10.00
Manufacturer : MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD
Mainboard : MSI K8 Neo4 (MS-7125)
Bios : Phoenix Technologies, LTD
Chipset : nVidia nForce4
Physical Memory : 2048 MB DDR-SDRAM

Device Audio : nForce4 AC'97 Audio Controller
Audio Playback : Speakers (Realtek AC'97 Audio)
Audio Playback : Microsoft Sound Mapper
Audio Recording : Microphone (Realtek AC'97 Audio
MIDI Output : Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth
MIDI Output : Microsoft MIDI Mapper
Reproduction : Speakers (Realtek AC'97 Audio)
Driver date: 10.03.2009
Driver Version : 6.0.1.6303
Manufacturer : Microsoft
Corporation
Product ID : 100

 

[haakon]

Hi, thanks for all the suggestions and help. I disabled the install signed drivers thing... It does not change anything. I can still install the different Realtek drivers i choose from MSI or Realtek homepage, I still get soundbars when I click on the speaker symbol in the lover right corner of the desktop, and still no sound. Today I was not able to remove old drivers before installing/trying a new one. Win 7 automatically installed a new driver when I removed the existing one and run the driver sweeper (with no option to stop it..). The only way I managed to change the drivers today was the update driver option were I selected which folder to update from.

I think a new soundcard that is compatible with Win7 is needed......

 

[kemical]

I think your onboard sound is fine but wonder if the dual boot has anything to do with the problem... Have you considered just trying to run 7?

 

[haakon]

Hi, my plan is to get rid of the dualboot when I get the real Win 7. Until then I will default to my Laptop-USB speakers.

 

[kemical]

Sorry it's not worked out but at least you have a solution of sorts..

 

[Highwayman]

Did you hunt out a new BIOS in case it's a issue there??? Also did you put the latest NForce chipset drivers on???