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Realtek AC 97 Sound: Configuration Screen Nag

Quoted from Naphadep who contributed the following to Bytesector Community Forums:

"PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:35 pm Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess I have managed to resolve this problem now. Knowing that the sound was OK at the start-up I closely watched the events and came to conclusion that it was Sound Manager in the start-up programs that was altering the system. Sound Manager is installed as part of the RealTek driver installation. I disabled this program during start-up and the problem disappeared although the sound had a lot of echo (like in the 'Hall effect' setting of equalizers).

I found that 'Sound manager' was actually configuring the output sockets on start-up and while doing so the 'front-speakers' socket was being treated as 'Line-in'.

 

For those who use 'RealTek' AC'97 and have problems such as no sound at all or no sound from particular channel, it might be worth doing some quick checks of speaker configuration using following steps:

1. Double click sound manager icon in the system tray and open speaker configuration screen.

2. Select the appropriate (2 Channel, 4 Channel or any other) speaker system suitable for your set-up. You may use 'Auto Test' button to check that the speakers produce sound.

3. Open the 'Connector Sensing' screen. Select the appropriate bracket (the sockets you want to test).

4. Click on 'Start' button to start sensing the connections. Sound manager will show you present configuration of the sockets with any attached devices such as mic or speakers. Close this screen and come back to connector sensing screen.

5. If you feel the sockets are wrongly configured, click on the 'Correction' button shown just below each socket on this screen. This will allow you to make corrections in the settings telling sound manager what the connected device is to be recognized as. Select appropriate radio button and click on OK.

6. Close the sound manager.

 

I also noticed that equalizer settings of sound manager are very much active in addition to the ones provided by playback software such as Media player or 'WinAmp'..."


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