Realtek hd audio driver problems

[simisker]

i just had a new pc and ive gone to watch a film on it but it says audio device not installed, so i went thro sound,video and game controlers option in control panel and everything is installed. then i went thro in start menu>all programs>accessories>entertainment>volume control, and its sayin no available sound mixer. and it aint lettin me put my sound card thro the main sound settings. any help will be well appreciated

 

[Tmagic650]

What are your complete compter specs? Do you have any yellow marks in the device manager?

 

[simisker]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor 4000+
2.1ghz, 1GB of RAM,

and nope, there isnt a yellow exclamation mark anywhere on my device mnager, the sound does work cuz i tried the test sound in realtek audio manager, but the volume control wont pick it up. i tried unistallin it but its sayin it might be needed to boot the computer, ive tried installin a new driver and it just says installin driver failed

 

[Teranius]

try uninstalling and reinstalling the driver

 

[simisker]

it doesnt let me, it says cannot uninstall cuz the driver might be needed to boot the computer

 

[Teranius]

boot in safe mode and try again?

 

[simisker]

how do i boot it in safe mode?

 

[Teranius]

restart, while in bios press f8 to bring up the advanced boot menu and choose safe mode

 

[simisker]

nope, still dont let me uninstall the driver

 

[Teranius]

im guessing you wont be too keen on doing a fresh OS installation. have you tried updating the driver and your codecs?

 

[simisker]

tried it all lol, i aint got a service pack 2 boot disc either my m8 done it for me

 

[Teranius]

if you can backup all your data format and reinstall. im sorry to say im running out of ideas

 

[simisker]

cud it be cuz my HDD is partitioned?

 

[Teranius]

no, im rather thinking something might be corrupted on your windows installation

 

[Teranius]

no, im rather thinking something might be corrupted on your windows installation

 

[Teranius]

WHOA! sorry about that, dont know what happened

 

[simisker]

shud it totally format my HDD and reinstall windows?

 

[simisker]

i finally done it lol, i had to go to add or remove programs, uninstall all the drivers from there, but its all done now, thx for the help