Audio Problems on Vista x64

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Bobby Johnson

Last night when I tried watching some video news clips
online I could not hear the sound because it was very, very
low and I wasn't able to find anyway to increase the volume.
Windows sounds seem to be normal and the Realtek HD audio
control seems to be playing the test sounds correctly.

I have Vista x64 on a Biostar TA770 A2+ with a Phenom 9600+
and 8GB RAM. This seems to have just suddenly happened. I
did download the latest Realtek HD driver, but that didn't
seem to change anything.

I'm open to suggestion.
 
Bobby,
Did you try system restore let's say, 2 days back in time?
I always keep shortcuts to different audio test files in order to test my
system: stereo mp3's, 5.1 ac3 dolby's, etc.
That way I am able to isolate at least half of the possible causes.
Regarding the online video clips, could it be a decoder issue?
What kind of audio enconding do they have?
Freeware Mediainfo
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86862&package_id=90341) can give you a hand here.
Carlos

"Bobby Johnson" wrote:

> Last night when I tried watching some video news clips
> online I could not hear the sound because it was very, very
> low and I wasn't able to find anyway to increase the volume.
> Windows sounds seem to be normal and the Realtek HD audio
> control seems to be playing the test sounds correctly.
>
> I have Vista x64 on a Biostar TA770 A2+ with a Phenom 9600+
> and 8GB RAM. This seems to have just suddenly happened. I
> did download the latest Realtek HD driver, but that didn't
> seem to change anything.
>
> I'm open to suggestion.
>
 
Carlos,

When I went to do a system restore I suddenly found that it
had been turned off, but I didn't do it. I had made an
Acronis backup in May and I restored the system from that.
The audio is now working correctly.

I did find a several references on the internet and at
Microsoft of which I tried several of the recommended
solutions - none of them worked. It seems this happens
quite a bit in both Vista x64 & x86 based on what I found
and no one has found a definitive reason as to what triggers
this.

The clips were off CNN and they must be using Adobe since I
was prompted to install the Adobe plug-in for I.E.

Thanks for your input.

Bobby


Carlos wrote:
> Bobby,
> Did you try system restore let's say, 2 days back in time?
> I always keep shortcuts to different audio test files in order to test my
> system: stereo mp3's, 5.1 ac3 dolby's, etc.
> That way I am able to isolate at least half of the possible causes.
> Regarding the online video clips, could it be a decoder issue?
> What kind of audio enconding do they have?
> Freeware Mediainfo
> (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86862&package_id=90341) can give you a hand here.
> Carlos
>
> "Bobby Johnson" wrote:
>
>> Last night when I tried watching some video news clips
>> online I could not hear the sound because it was very, very
>> low and I wasn't able to find anyway to increase the volume.
>> Windows sounds seem to be normal and the Realtek HD audio
>> control seems to be playing the test sounds correctly.
>>
>> I have Vista x64 on a Biostar TA770 A2+ with a Phenom 9600+
>> and 8GB RAM. This seems to have just suddenly happened. I
>> did download the latest Realtek HD driver, but that didn't
>> seem to change anything.
>>
>> I'm open to suggestion.
>>
 
Hi,
did you walk to systems control -> sound and audio ?

depending on your graphicscard , which allready may have an audio controller
too, the default output could be switched to THAT device

check the settings

jk
 
I did check, but there was nothing to choose. I would
presume it would be a wave file sent via internet since it
was on-line video news clips, but don't know for sure.


Juergen Kluth wrote:
> Hi,
> did you walk to systems control -> sound and audio ?
>
> depending on your graphicscard , which allready may have an audio controller
> too, the default output could be switched to THAT device
>
> check the settings
>
> jk
>
>
 
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