Major Audio Issues

[En1gma]

I just built myself a new PC using the Intel mobo DG965WH. My knowledge of the way sound works on a PC sucks, and is limited to just downloading drivers and hoping for the best. (Link to my board = http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DG965WH/index.htm) Now I just installed Vista Ultimate (32Bit) and only heard sound coming from my front 2 speakers. I played around with the Vista options and nothing seemed to work. So then I came on this forum and saw this link (http://www.radarsync.com/vista/) with audio programs and drivers and downloaded the Sigmatel one and ran the program. After restarting my computer now I have no sound whatsoever and theres nothing to configure in my Sounds folder. Also clicking on the Sigmatel program in my control panel does absolutely nothing now. Any help here?

[En1gma]

Ok so I fixed this problem myself with the help of my friend google and lots of restore points and random downloads. Now for another issue! I click on Sound in the control panel and everything is fine. I do 5.1 and the sound test plays perfect through all my speakers. Only problem is that when I use windows media player or winamp it only plays through front left and front right. How can I fix this?

[En1gma]

Scratch that enabled speaker fill and all works fine now. Finally done configuring Vista I hope? :confused:

[itsplayed]

Welcome to the forums En1gma, nice work! Sorry to hear that the link to Vista drivers didn't work out for you. I only provided the link after using it myself to update drivers for my realtek on-board audio device.....which did work.

Note: Always create a restore point before installing any BETA drivers.

That said, I usually don't advocate pulling drivers from any third party sites. I would always go to the source first. Intel is a good company that's usually on top of the driver game. I'm sure they would have had the updated audio drivers for your MoBo. I would instead use the site as a frame of reference to see when drivers become available and would only pull drivers from there site if for whatever reason, you have no other choice.

[En1gma]

The weird part is that I installed the ones from intel again, and that didn't work. So I went to uninstall them and after the uninstall finished all of a sudden my sound kicked in. I really have no idea what happened because I tried uninstalling everything and searching for drivers but I guess windows corrected itself eventually or I must have became a tech genious subconciously for a minute there. :D

[tech1]

Quite a tale. In any case, you did something right.

Glad it works.