Ok, so I just put together a new PC with an ASUS M3N78 Pro motherboard, and I installed Windows 7 onto it. I got pretty much everything working right except the sound. I tryed installing a vista x64 realtek HD audio driver from the ASUS site, and it didnt work. Any ideas?
Asus M3N78 audio driver
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Did you get any error messages when trying to install those drivers, or were they just not the right ones?
As that is quite a popular and recent motherboard, I would have thought that running Windows Update to search for drivers would turn up the correct ones?
As that is quite a popular and recent motherboard, I would have thought that running Windows Update to search for drivers would turn up the correct ones?
When I went to install the drivers, I got a message saying that my Operating System was not compatible, but then it asked me if I wanted to run it under the correct settings, which I did and then it installed. As for the Windows Updates, I tryed to run them and I get "Windows could not search for new updates" and error code C004F012
I've created a new thread from your last post, as it's going to help other people with the same problem and it's a different from the start of this thread:
https://www.w7forums.com/windows-up...indows-could-not-search-new-updates-t988.html
We'll see if that can be fixed too
In relation to the sound drivers problem, try downloading a newer version direct from Realtek here:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/ (it will be listed under High Definiation audio codecs). There's a Windows 7 version available
https://www.w7forums.com/windows-up...indows-could-not-search-new-updates-t988.html
We'll see if that can be fixed too
In relation to the sound drivers problem, try downloading a newer version direct from Realtek here:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/ (it will be listed under High Definiation audio codecs). There's a Windows 7 version available
Asus M3A78-EM
Ian - I have tried and tried to find an audio driver that works consistently with this mobo. Drivers downloaded from Asus, Realtek, and Microsoft behave in a strange way with Vista Ultimate.
The real problem is with the headphone feature from the front panel. It might work for a day or two, the Vista won;t recognise it. Load an updated driver won't guarantee success. The weirdess happened last week, the headphones are functional one day, when I restarted the PC the next day, the phones are gone. Nothing I can do will bring them back.
I'm hoping that Win 7 will deliver a better driver. Your thoughts?
Ian - I have tried and tried to find an audio driver that works consistently with this mobo. Drivers downloaded from Asus, Realtek, and Microsoft behave in a strange way with Vista Ultimate.
The real problem is with the headphone feature from the front panel. It might work for a day or two, the Vista won;t recognise it. Load an updated driver won't guarantee success. The weirdess happened last week, the headphones are functional one day, when I restarted the PC the next day, the phones are gone. Nothing I can do will bring them back.
I'm hoping that Win 7 will deliver a better driver. Your thoughts?
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I have the same mobo and have had no problems with sound. Have you updated your windows via windows updates? After installing Win 7 and updating thats when my sound kicked in and has stayed with me since. Have you also tried updating drivers from device manager. The only problem I had finding drivers for on this MB was the co- processor which I managed to resolve yesterday!
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Thanx for the reply - I am not running Win 7 on that box yet, I'm just anticipating any problems for that box. I did notice one thing when I installed Win 7 on an older box...the version that preceded the Release Candidate could not find the network nor sound cards on that box. Nothing I did would make them work. Then when I installed the RC on that box, everything worked perfectly. I said all of this to hope that the driver issue will be addressed when I convert the first box from Vista to Win7...after Oct 22. Wish me luck
Thanx for the reply - I am not running Win 7 on that box yet, I'm just anticipating any problems for that box. I did notice one thing when I installed Win 7 on an older box...the version that preceded the Release Candidate could not find the network nor sound cards on that box. Nothing I did would make them work. Then when I installed the RC on that box, everything worked perfectly. I said all of this to hope that the driver issue will be addressed when I convert the first box from Vista to Win7...after Oct 22. Wish me luck