NEW Realtek ALC AC'97 v3.75

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited August 2005 in Science & Tech
Realtek have released a new audio driver in the shape of v3.75 for their ALC AC'97 audio chipsets. The driver supports all ALC series audio chipsets from ALC100 up to ALC850 mainly used as onboard sound on various motherboards.

Download: Realtek ALC AC'97 Audio Driver v3.75 (98/ME/2000/XP/2003/XP64) (12.3MB)

Source: Station-Drivers

Comments

  • ronboronbo Connecticut
    edited August 2005
    Real strange. I downloaded them and installed them and lost all my audio. I have the MSI K8N Neo2 platimun motherboard and I know this is my onboard audio. Had to do a roll back to get my sound back.... :confused::confused:
    I extracted them to a folder and clicked on the setup exe. And it said install complete now do a reboot. After the reboot the sound was gone???
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited August 2005
    ronbo wrote:
    Real strange. I downloaded them and installed them and lost all my audio. I have the MSI K8N Neo2 platimun motherboard and I know this is my onboard audio. Had to do a roll back to get my sound back.... :confused::confused:
    I extracted them to a folder and clicked on the setup exe. And it said install complete now do a reboot. After the reboot the sound was gone???
    They work fine on my test rig. :scratch:
  • ronboronbo Connecticut
    edited August 2005
    Thanks Spinner. Maybe it was a bad download. I will download them again and try it one more time...
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    They seem to bring out a new version every week or so, but no-one ever seems to be aware of any bugs in the first place. Are they simply adding support for different boards? (although they should all ID themselves as the same device and thus not need different drivers sooo..) So basically, what do they keep doing? heh.
  • ronboronbo Connecticut
    edited August 2005
    Well I found my solution. I disabled the on board audio and put in my sound blaster audigy...... ;D;D
  • SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
    edited August 2005
    Enverex wrote:
    They seem to bring out a new version every week or so, but no-one ever seems to be aware of any bugs in the first place. Are they simply adding support for different boards? (although they should all ID themselves as the same device and thus not need different drivers sooo..) So basically, what do they keep doing? heh.
    That's a good question, but I have no answer to that one, sadly. :)
    ronbo wrote:
    Well I found my solution. I disabled the on board audio and put in my sound blaster audigy...... ;D;D
    Curious. :shakehead ;D
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited August 2005
    ronbo wrote:
    Well I found my solution. I disabled the on board audio and put in my sound blaster audigy...... ;D;D

    I'm not sure if that is really a step up or not...

    /me goes back to gaming with his Rice Crispies Audigy (Because it's "Snap, Crackle and Pop!") *growls*
  • ronboronbo Connecticut
    edited August 2005
    Guess what Enverex, I have to agree with you. After installing the audigy I went heavy into Painkiller "Battle out of hell" and I was getting some random freezing in the game. I never got that before I put the sound blaster in? Is it just a coincidence? I will find out because the creative crap is coming out tonight. I will try the realtek with the new drivers again... :thumbsup::thumbsup:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited August 2005
    ronbo, you might try cleaning up the old Realtek registry references with something like RegCleaner before you try it again. Just make sure you choose only the audio stuff if you happen to have other Realtek devices, such as LAN, etc.

    I'd clean out the Creative stuff that way, too.
  • ronboronbo Connecticut
    edited August 2005
    Thank you prof, I will do that tonight after I get out of work.....
  • ronboronbo Connecticut
    edited August 2005
    Still no luck with the 3,75 drivers. When I install them I get no sound from the line out plug( green one),,,but if I plug into the line in (blue one) I get sound. But the line in plug is for an external cd player? If I roll back to the drivers that came with the motherboard everything is back to normal. Speakers work on green plug like always. So the drivers that are working now are 5.10.0.5760 dated 12/1/2004. The motherboard is a MSI K8N Neo 2 platinum...guess I'm stuck with the old drivers for now....
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited August 2005
    Have you gone into the speaker configuration utility and set it for the type of speaker setup you have? I use the MSI Sound Manger and can choose from four different options (4CH, 6CH, etc). With each one it changes which jacks perform which functions.

    You might see if Realtek is sliding a mixer utility in there on you, too. I've seen people wrestle with a sound problem for days, only to find that a utility they didn't even know had been installed was muting some or all of their channels. :eek:
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