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Hello, I was having a hard time getting my microphone to work. I work from home occasionally and noticed I would have to unplug the jacks and replug them in when I connected to a remote desktop in order for sound to work correctly.

Unfortunately, that did not work today. I decided to try updating the Realtek driver. I uninstalled the current driver and installed a more recent one. The driver install asked for a reboot of my system so that it could complete, but once I logged back in, it said the update failed.

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Now if I look at device manager, it sees an audio device, but lists it as High Definition Audio Device and has the yellow triangle with the exclamation point. I have tried to search for better drivers on my system, but windows says it has the best drivers. Currently I have no sound. Any help would be most helpful.

Edius Neo 2 Booster Free Download. All the Realtek drivers suggested for Lan and Audio will give you trouble from Windows 7 update. Dont't use them, from my experience. I have a Gigabyte board with the ALC889A chipset using their download for my motherboard. Ver 6.0.1.6235 DirectX 11.0.

I must say this Control Panel is a thing of beauty with my Windows 7 64 bit system. But it has the Gigabyte logo with it. Do you know what RealteK chipset you have? There are quite a few.

Also do you know your motherboard MFG'r? I have in the past gone to www.realtek.com for great working drivers/Control Panel for this motherboard too. And I have had great results too.

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I'm not using the onboard sound card, but wonder if activating it might be the best way to go. Realtek drivers won't reinstall no matter what I try. I had a friend build my pc a couple years ago. I'm assuming the onboard sound card is disabled or I could just go get a new sound card. My concern is it the sound card that is acting up or is it my computer. I have seen posts with issues when it comes to Realtek and windows 7, but it worked before with a few glitches. Hawkeye is right!!!

Your motherboard might use a realtek chip on it!!! ( please give your motherboard info to us to help you!!!!! And it needs to be enabled in the mother board BIOS!!! But if your using a exterior/plug in AUDIO card, then you need to disable it in the motherboard BIOS!!! Having two sound cards in the computer enabled at the same time will confuse software installation. Same with the newer video/audio cards/HDMI cards. Enable and disable/remove similar audio devices when installing software/drivers so as to not confuse the software installation.

And re-install/enable them after a successful software installation. Best advice is for you to decide which sound device you want to use first. Then enable it and disable/remove the other one.

Find the MFG'r of the one you want to use and install that software only. Or give us the tech info on parts. So we can best guide/help you. Realtek makes great 24 bit audio chips for motherboards and now I dont ever need external audio cards any more. 888/889 chips are fantastic. AS I SAID BEFORE.

Alway un-install any AUDIO software drivers first and reboot. BEFORE installing new.

Control Panel/Programs and Features/UNINSTALL I've had fustration with audio drivers before too. And sometimes an older version worked best. Keep track of versions when downloading and installing them. Also goes with sites that you downloaded from. Try a different site for the same software.

Www.CNET.com is a great site for Drivers.