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Q6600 · 09-03-2008, 10:02 AM

hey there thanks for clicking on my thread

I have a P5N-E SLI board that has Realtek HD Audio on board, when I use the disc that came with it to install everything installs fine and I have the system tray icon after the requested restart. however no sound is present

, when I put in my Creative Sound Blaster sound card the sound works fine.
I know that the Realtek Audio has LOADS of problems and I have looked in lots of forums including this one but no one seems to have the same problem as me... lots of people aren't able to install at all but like I said mine installs fine and gives no error.
I have also tried the sound drivers on Asus' website but after downloading about 3 or 4 different editions I found that pretty much all those drivers were not Realtek at all

they were SoundMax....

any and all help is appreciated very much, thanks in advance
ps I am using XP SP3 and I had this same problem before I went from XP SP2 to SP3.

09-03-2008, 10:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
Q6600 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP SP3	P5N-E SLI Realtek HD Audio, drivers install correctly, but no sound any tips? hey there thanks for clicking on my thread I have a P5N-E SLI board that has Realtek HD Audio on board, when I use the disc that came with it to install everything installs fine and I have the system tray icon after the requested restart. however no sound is present , when I put in my Creative Sound Blaster sound card the sound works fine. I know that the Realtek Audio has LOADS of problems and I have looked in lots of forums including this one but no one seems to have the same problem as me... lots of people aren't able to install at all but like I said mine installs fine and gives no error. I have also tried the sound drivers on Asus' website but after downloading about 3 or 4 different editions I found that pretty much all those drivers were not Realtek at all they were SoundMax.... any and all help is appreciated very much, thanks in advance ps I am using XP SP3 and I had this same problem before I went from XP SP2 to SP3.