My speakers do not work with HP/Vista/Realtec driver. Do I need a Soundblaster driver?

Disable the realtek from bios, then uninstall its drivers.
Reboot
If Soundblaster is not auto detected go to Device Manager and click on menu "Search for new hardware". After your card is detected, install specific drivers
Reboot
and that should do the trick.

Hello,

Here are the drivers for the mentioned laptop(2490):
Realtec Sound Driver Windows Vista
Realtec Sound Driver Windows XP

Here are the drivers for the topic laptop(4230)
Realtec Sound Driver Windows Vista
Realtec Sound Driver Windows XP

You likely just need to reinstall the drivers. Please visit the below link and go down to the Original Drivers section and you'll see Spring 2006 Original Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 drivers. Download and install those drivers and you should have your sound back.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=1824764&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=1118267&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=228

Dose the sound card have surround sound on it, might need to enable the surround on it. Or try to plug the speaker cable in the black or green hole. And see if that matters. Good luck!!

Hi mate,

You have to download the latest driver for your soundcard for it to have the 5.1 support. For instance, I had to downloadthe RealTek driver pack and install it, then double click the redRealtek icon in the bottom right hand corner of my screen, and go toadvanced settings and set the preferences for each speaker and each ofthe 3 input ports on my computers sound card.

If you have a Realtek card then, you want the Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R2.11, you can find it here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/173933659/WDM_R211.zip

and the Vista one is here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/173930788/Vista_R211.zip

That's for my setup though, if you have a Soundblaster card, it'll be the newest Creative driver you want..
Figureout which one you have from your device manager in the system part ofthe control panel and then google search for the card brand followed bythe word 'driver', and check the download page to make sure it supportsyour card's model number.

Good luck

Chris (ziraffa)

Hey there,

You want the Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R2.11, which has support for ALC883. You can find the Vista one here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/173930788/Vista_R211.zip

Hope this helps
Season's Greetings ;)


Chris (ziraffa)

On Creative website there are no drivers for 5.1 on Vista.

According to Crative, the 5.1 have reached the end of its service life and is not Vista compatible.

Some private uiser had found his own solution in alternative to creative deciosion not to make SB 5.1 Vista compatible.

Follow the instructions on this website, as they seem to be the only way to have SB 5.1 working on Vista.

there are no drivers for the speakers, you need an audio driver installed for you sound card.

http://support.dell.com

Your system will either have an on-board sound card (Sigmatel normally) or a soundblaster expansion audio card. (If the audio jacks are in an expansion slot below the video card, then you have a soundblaster.

Soundblaster drivers are found at http://www.creative.com

Go to the Hp website - software and drivers - select your OS then download the realtec driver

it's not problem my dr friend u go to
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4106373/Creative.Soundblaster.Audigy.Series.Vista.Drivers%5Bby.daniel_k%5D
or
http://www.nodevice.com/driver/company/Creative-Labs.html
download drivers from the above sites,
for softwares visit www.filehippo.com
www.softpedia.com
fall free sofrwares are available.