Monday, March 24, 2008

No sound in Windows Vista SP1

I just found out that for some reason I wasn't getting sound after installing Vista SP1. I am using the motherboard's built-in sound card (Realtek High Definition Audio). The odd thing is that all the drivers seemed to be work as there are no exclamation marks next to anything. Then I discoverd in the Mixer that it was set to a different audio device. I have a Linksys CIT300 VOIP phone which shows up as an audio device in Windows. So I went to the control panel, clicked on Sound, and set the default back to the Realtek sound chip and voila- all is well again.

Basically for some unknown reason Vista had switched the default sound device during the SP1 install- it's likely a bug that Microsoft needs to look into....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi,

I had the same no sound problem after the SP1 install. I've got an X-Fi Extreme Music s/c and every time I load windows I have to check the 'Enable Digital IO' box (Sound:Speakers:double click:custom tab) for sound to work. For some reason post SP1 whenever windows loads it leaves this unchecked. Took me ages to find this so hope the tip helps others.

Anonymous said...

I had the same issue. Just went to my motherboard's website (Asus in this case) and installed new drivers. Problem solved!