Realtek HD Sound driver problems

[axon1988]

Hi guys,

I'm having this strange problem with my realtek drivers. I installed them yesterday (downloaded the newest version for windows 7 64bit) and everything went fine. I set up my new system and then installed AC3 drivers to help with sound quality.

The problem is this: My sound is perfect but whenever I play music on say media player the new hardware message keeps popping up, telling me that I have just disconnected a audio device and seconds later it tells me that I have reconnected this device. This keeps happening over and over, but there's no real pattern to it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. It even happens when watching movies and playing games.

It's not the speaker set as I've tested it on another computer and it runs fine there. And my hardware has been working fine for about 3 years now, only after downloading the drivers did it give me this problem. I made sure I downloaded the right drivers for the right motherboard. (Onboard sound card)

Any tips or help?

 

[vinodh]

Uninstall the drivers and restart. Then check if Windows installs its own driver after that. If you're lucky, the built-in driver should solve the problem.

 

[NomNom]

1. Disable the automatic popup thingy, you can do it in the advanced settings of the realtek sound panel.

2. Uninstall the driver completely and install a drive off windows update.

3. Learn to live with it.

4. ?

 

[axon1988]

Thanks guys, I've tried both those options.

I am currently using the windows drivers, so no surround sound I used this before buying the new system. But you know, not being bale to test it to it's full potential can be annoying.

Disabling the popups doesn't help, every 2 minutes the sound will disappear as the drivers sets up the 'new' connection every time.

Anything else I could try?

 

[RoCkFoRdGuN]

Had some issue with a laptop a while back hunted around for drivers for 2 weeks if i can give u advice look for driver checker sorted my problem out in 5 min maybe theres a extra driver or codec that needs to be installed that u missing

Driver Checker v2.7.4

 

[axon1988]

Sweet, thanks I'll try that. I saw some codec drivers on realtek's site. Was considering it. I'm thinking it might just be my onboard drivers. Been tempted to buy a sound card. Maybe I should just do that.

 

[axon1988]

I just found out that it's not a driver problem... it IS my subwoofer that's faulty. Loose connections
This makes me sad...

 

[jvk]

i got the same problem, think its def a driver issue. i close the hd realtek application and that seems to sort it out ...

edit: BTW what speaker system\set up do you have ?

i've got a 2.1 logitek setup but the pop up comes on even when that not connected

 

[axon1988]

This weekend I did some serious check ups on my system and found out the real problem. It's not my speakers at all. I have a surround sound system, not sure which one but it's a nice system. In any case the chassis I have seems to be the problem, the front sound jacks seem loose, so everytime the subwoofer kicks out some extra base the front input shakes (even though theres nothing connected it seems to think that I've connected something then. So I disconnected my whole front panel, USB and audio (USB was faulty) and it's working wonderful now.

Some things I did this weekend that people with 5.1 surround sound might also want to try:
1. Get AC3 plugin for winamp, it really boosts the sound quality.
2. There's a surround sound plugin also for winamp, when playing normal stereo music files it uses the full surround sound speakers and not just switches to stereo mode.