Realtek drivers aren't working! (Isn't that a surprise!)

**rowanmcdonald1991** · April 18th, 2006, 01:28 AM

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**gemstone** · April 18th, 2006, 02:18 AM

Actually it is a surprise, Realtek are a solid installation but if you don't know the make of the chip on your mainboard what has lead you to try to install Realtek drivers,? codecs by themselves are little value without any driver or other software to interface with it and it's rediculous to suggest a complete re-install just to get sound working.,
Perhaps you could post some details of your system that's causing you problems, otherwise nobody has anything to point to as a possible cause.

**street1** · April 18th, 2006, 05:06 AM

Have you downloaded and ran Everest Free Edition?

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html

**Ferrit** · April 18th, 2006, 08:52 AM

I would agree Realtek is a very stable and easily installed sound system.
Not all realtek will work with the realtek files . Sometimes you need specific ones from your motherboard manufacturer.
Please provide motherboard model.

**rowanmcdonald1991** · April 21st, 2006, 06:34 PM

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**gemstone** · April 22nd, 2006, 02:18 AM

Dont immediately see any 'Realtek' devices listed, the sound chip is INtel so you should be downloading the driver from them.

**format c:** · April 22nd, 2006, 02:30 AM

I would go to the Acer site, Look up your model of system and under support I beleive you can download the drivers for your Acer system
It looks like an Intel sound solution from what I read in your post, No mention of realtek anywhere

**stuserver** · April 22nd, 2006, 02:26 PM

I have an Intel® Desktop Board D865GVHZ, and the sound card uses Realtek's drivers and applications. As far as I am concerned, the Intel onboard sound cards use (or are) Realtek's, and use their drivers and apps. I would recomend going to the Acer's website to look for driver updates. Or if your pc has a System Recovery suite, like mine does, or if you are not sure, ask the customer service about it. I use a program called Application & Driver Recovery within a Start menu folder called system recovery.

**rowanmcdonald1991** · April 25th, 2006, 02:02 AM

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**xpuser357** · April 25th, 2006, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by rowanmcdonald1991

After system restoring the sound worked fine and there were no errors for about five minutes. But then before turning off my computer, i checked the hardware wizard - apparently all my 7 or so different codecs (video, HD, audio,etc) run off my chip set family (Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family). After that 5 mins my comp. now comes up with the same error as before (see above) ...i'm getting very annoyed. Once again what should i do and thanks so far for your help,

RowanMcDonald1991

p.s. please excuse my tarzan-like english!
p.p.s. could anyone suggest an intel page where i may get help for these chipsets?

Maybe a dumb question but did you remove all the other drivers? You may
have a conflict with drivers for your sound.

**slgrieb** · April 25th, 2006, 05:29 PM

I'd uninstall all audio devices in Device Manager, reboot, and let the system re-detect devices. If the sound is still flaky, run sfc /scannow from a command prompt. You'll probably be prompted to insert your XP CD by System File Checker.