Comments on: Enable Sound Acceleration

By: G

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 01:15:06 +0000

The music is a little distorted，are you?in xp is normal

By: Farshid Bagheri Saravi

Farshid Bagheri Saravi — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:21:55 +0000

it works…. thanks , kiss you A lot :*

By: blubb

blubb — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:52:27 +0000

I am running Windows Server 2008 R2.
I’ve tried all the suggestions from here, but the sound stutters nevertheless.
Disable the Hyper-Threading feature in the BIOS solved the problem.

By: RobertC

RobertC — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:20:57 +0000

Just bought an HP 480t desktop which came with Windows 7 and a 1gb
Radeon HD 5770 video and “integrated sound” with a 7.1 speaker setup.

My first task was to wipe the drive and install Windows Server 2008 R2. My next challenge was to get the various items to work again.

After spending time on the phone with HP, they finally told me I had a Realtek ALC8885 audio card. Visited Realtek and downloaded their Windows 7 64bit driver and have installed it.

Using the Realtek audio manager, I can get sound out of the front 2 speakers, but the rest have no sound. I did the changes listed in this post, but no luck. If I remove the Realtek audio and let Windows install the default MS High Definition audio driver, I get the same behavior. The front two speakers work but the rest are “dead”.

Any suggestions?

Arris: Hm, I actually have no idea. Ask your question at the forums, there is a big chance they can help you further.

By: Mohan.R

Mohan.R — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:15:51 +0000

When i plug my earphone pin it will recognise it (Ex:- such As line in,out) but in Status bar it will displayed as “no audio device is installed” in win 2008 server

any help……
Thanks in advances

By: sdarkn3ss

sdarkn3ss — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 03:25:23 +0000

hello, in case it can help someone i have a VAIO VPCS11C5E with a preinstalled windows 7 and i installed windows 2008…
Problem i encountered was that sound was scrambled, really noisy and no way to figure out what music notebook was playing…
i tried several drivers from nvidia and high definition from relatek since the notebook has a mix of both sound drivers and no way to solve it, read a lot about latency but again nothing…
so, there was sound but noisy…

i uninstalled all sound stuff from device manager. i made the registry tweak you explain in this site about changin priority to 20 as it is on vista… installed nvidia sound drivers only and realtek drivers (for nvidia if i try installing nvidia drivers i get a bsod, seems i need vaio nvidia drivers…):
Graphics_Driver_NVIDIA_Bn_S6_8.16.11.8783.zip
Audio_Driver_Realtek_6.0BL_Q_S64_6.0.1.5992.zip

still sound was scrambled, but reading that someone could get sound correctly while enabling hibernation, i did this:
http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/john-savills-windows-faqs/q-is-it-true-that-hyper-v-in-windows-2008-r2-supports-hibernate-and-sleep-.aspx

C:\>bcdedit /copy {current} /d “Windows 2008 R2 – No HV”
The entry was successfully copied to {xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}.

C:\>bcdedit /set {xxxxxxxxxx copy above entry location xxxxxxxxxxxx} hypervisorlaunchtype off
The operation completed successfully.

then when i restarted and went to the new windows 2008 entry with no hipervisor at startup, sound was running fine!!!

i’m not really sure what solved the vaio sound problem and sorry for so many lines, but really hope it can help anyone with same problem, thanks a lot for site

Arris: I’m sure this will help some people, thanks for your extended explanation!

By: Syed Faisal Hasan

Syed Faisal Hasan — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:03:14 +0000

Have installed Windows 2008 R2 Can anyone please guide me to a working drivers for Dell Soundblaster OEM 5.1 PCI Sound Card. I have searched around a lot and still not able to make it work. Thanks for all the co-operation Arris: Have you tried to find your PC at the Downloads & Drivers section at the Dell website and download the Windows 7 drivers with the right architecture (x86 / x64)? If you did, read the Drivers in Windows Server 2008 R2 page or ask your question at the forums and add some more info about the device which can be found in the Details tab of the device in the Device Manager (devmgmt.msc).

By: Ravi

Ravi — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:39:05 +0000

Thanks a Ton Bud. worked for me

By: Sikandar Ali

Sikandar Ali — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:59:37 +0000

Thanks very much mate. You rock

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By: Bryan Price

Bryan Price — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:38:41 +0000

(Now I read what Tom says)

14 is 20 in hex. If you’ll notice the default is 64 hex, 100 decimal.

By: Bryan Price

Bryan Price — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:37:28 +0000

Thanks Tim for that bit on configuring the sound.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:08:36 +0000

The default SystemResponsiveness is 100. It looks like your reg tweak will set it to 14? Is that correct?

Or does your tweak make it the Vista default of 20?

By: JordanN

JordanN — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:55:52 +0000

If you are having no audio
– with a RealTek integrated audio card,
– and your headphones / speakers are plugged into the front jack
– and your audio works when they are plugged in at the back

try disabling Front Panel Jack Detection in the RealTek HD Audio Manager. Click on the Folder icon in the main screen, on the right side, under the Advanced Settings link. Check “Disable front panel jack detection.”

Take all of your volume settings down to a reasonable level. Try your audio program again.

By: Mattias

Mattias — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:02:24 +0000

I have the same issue as Kevin. Did the stuff on the audio page and at first I got sound, then after a reboot I lost the audio device (speakers?) and now I ony got SPDIF device which I can’t use =/ Does anyone know how to fix this?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:09:30 +0000

I have server 2008 running on HP DV4-1275mx with no audio from speaker but headphone works. There are 2 playback devices, Digital Output Device (HDMI) and Headphones. There is no speakers device. What did I miss?

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By: Kal

Kal — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:40:00 +0000

I found audio was choppy/stuttering… it turns out that Windows 2008 uses different priorities for task scheduling…

The following registry entry is set to 100 in Win2k8, where it is set to 20 on Vista.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile\SystemResponsiveness

See: http://nerdfortress.com/2008/03/12/using-windows-server-2008-workstation-audio-stutters/
And:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684247.aspx
for more details.

Arris: Thanks for your explanation! This tweak has already been added to the Registry Tweaks page and a link to the tweak in step 5 of the Enable Sound Acceleration article.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:38:29 +0000

I’m posting this here, if you have problems with sound you could try this registry hack.
Right click > Merge.

What it does is what a Microsoft employee described on a forum.

I don’t think it can harm your computer, but use at your own risk.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=888b1c2d0bcc93b1d2db6fb9a8902bda

By: eLiNK

eLiNK — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:05:21 +0000

Neither did I have any sound.

Sound acceleration and the like were enabled.
All drivers were correctly installed.
No problems were to be identified in the device manager.

The funny thing it all worked AFTER I connected headphones to my laptop.