Windows 7 Beta 7000 (Boot Camp) NO SOUND.....?

[Esulatell]

I just installed Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 onto my Alu' iMac via Boot Camp, its all fine except I have no sound, do I need to download a driver or something? :confused:

If anyone can help can you please link me to the driver :D
Thank you :)

[nigrunze]

Have you tried installing the drivers included on the Mac OS X Leopard disc? If not, give it a shot.

[Esulatell]

Yep there all installed and they all work fine :)
But they did nothing for sound :mad:

[PowerFullMac]

Someones been using BitTorrent naughty naughty :D

Try installing it through VirtualBox, it's like Paralells but free and just as good. Windows 7 won't work on Q at the moment unfortunatly.

[Esulatell]

Someones been using BitTorrent naughty naughty :D

Try installing it through VirtualBox, it's like Paralells but free and just as good. Windows 7 won't work on Q at the moment unfortunatly.

Ah I'm a rebel me :D
But I don't want to use Parallels or anything like that, I want to run it natively.

[PowerFullMac]

OK well look up drivers for the sound card in your Mac but you may not have any luck getting it to work on Windows 7, it's only a beta and a early one at that, remember.

[nigrunze]

If the 2nd gen Aluminum iMac uses the same sound drivers as the first gen Aluminum iMac, then the drivers are on this page (http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false).

Hopefully they work for you. Try the Vista driver first, then the XP one.

On our PC, the driver that the Windows 7 beta chose produced bad sound output. I looked for a driver on Creative's website and found the XP driver but there wasn't a Vista driver. Surprisingly, the Windows XP driver works just fine.

... I guess my point is that if the Vista driver doesn't work, try the XP one.

[iParis]

It's a known problem with the 7 beta.
Just try to find the driver I guess.
This didn't happen to me when I installed it though. Yay uTorrent.

[speedfreek]

If the 2nd gen Aluminum iMac uses the same sound drivers as the first gen Aluminum iMac, then the drivers are on this page (http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false).

Hopefully they work for you. Try the Vista driver first, then the XP one.

On our PC, the driver that the Windows 7 beta chose produced bad sound output. I looked for a driver on Creative's website and found the XP driver but there wasn't a Vista driver. Surprisingly, the Windows XP driver works just fine.

... I guess my point is that if the Vista driver doesn't work, try the XP one.

Downloaded the XP one first and wouldn't even install as it wasnt compatible or couldn't find anything or something so no dice on that.
Downloaded the Vista one and everything is all gravy now =D Now to get some music going, kekeke.

[Stridder44]

I downloaded the Realtek drivers straight from Realtek (the High Definition Audio one) and it works perfectly on my early 08 MBP. Link: http://www.realtek.com/downloads/


What I'm having trouble with now is firewire. I used to use HFS Explorer to access my external (HFS formatted) hard drive but it no longer shows up in HFS Explorer. Windows doesn't even make the "device connected" sound when I turn it on (yes I'm running HFS Explorer in admin mode). Pretty sure it's a firewire driver issue, but I have no clue who makes the firewire for my MBP.

[Chwisch87]

this should do it.

3. From the Control Panel, click on the Device Manager
4. Find the device that's not installed, it's listed as 'Multimedia Audio Controller'
5. Click on the device and install/update the driver.
6. Let Windows go out to the Internet to find the driver.
7. Install the selected drive and click 'Ok'

[Akula971]

This guy ORION EDWARDS did this

Go into the leopard drivers folder. There should be a directory called Drivers, and under that is a file called RealTekSetup.exe. If you try run this normally, it will fail.

What he did next was:

Right click it, and select Troubleshoot Compatibility
Click Next and wait for it to finish 'Detecting Issues'
Select The program Worked in earlier versions of windows...
Select Windows Vista
Click Next a few times, let the Realtek installer run, reboot, and Presto!

http://orionedwards.blogspot.com/

[MacRumorUser]

^ Much easier to just download newer Realtek Drivers HD Audio Codec though. ;)

Look for the Vista_r213 driver package.

[e12a]

^ Much easier to just download newer Realtek Drivers HD Audio Codec though. ;)

Look for the Vista_r213 driver package.

they rank pretty much the same in terms of easiness.

windows compatibility mode actually works and is easy to use. I'm surprised.

[amt2002]

I've just intalled Win 7 on my alu imac and installed the realtek sound drivers and everything was fine.....

BUT my headphone out port isnt working and the sound out the internal speakers sounds really poor quality :mad:

Anyone else experiencing this or know a fix?

[gantte]

I can verify this solution worked for me.
I used the Apple Vista driver and it works fine.

What I didn't know until this event was that Apple puts a red
led *inside* the headphone jack on the macbookpro. The LED
was lit (RED) but when I loaded the Vista driver, the LED went
dark and the sound started working. Very cool.


This guy ORION EDWARDS did this

Go into the leopard drivers folder. There should be a directory called Drivers, and under that is a file called RealTekSetup.exe. If you try run this normally, it will fail.

What he did next was:

Right click it, and select Troubleshoot Compatibility
Click Next and wait for it to finish 'Detecting Issues'
Select The program Worked in earlier versions of windows...
Select Windows Vista
Click Next a few times, let the Realtek installer run, reboot, and Presto!

http://orionedwards.blogspot.com/

[FuturusX]

I can verify this solution worked for me.
I used the Apple Vista driver and it works fine.

What I didn't know until this event was that Apple puts a red
led *inside* the headphone jack on the macbookpro. The LED
was lit (RED) but when I loaded the Vista driver, the LED went
dark and the sound started working. Very cool.

FYI: That red LED inside is an optional mini toslink connection, along side the tradtional analog, enabling you output digital sound with the appropiate adapter:
http://www.nextag.com/mini-toslink-adapter/search-html

Useful for getting 5.1 etc from DVD playback.

Additional information on its use in home theater - http://www.reelsmart.com/2006/08/17/mac-home-theater-surround-sound-and-video-connections/print/

[Warbrain]

Well would you look at that...it worked. Now I have sound in Windows 7. Much thanks.

[SnowLeopard2008]

These (http://rapidshare.com/files/181757750/Vista_R214.zip) drivers worked for me. Download them. It's the same stuff as the files on Realtek's incredibly super slow site (8KBs download speed cap).

[memo90061]

Is your volume normal or really low? I had no audio problems but it's VERY LOW.

[amt2002]

Just an update from me with my lack of sound from my 3.5mm headphone jack on my aluminium imac. I tried everything but to no avail.

THE SOLUTION:

Finally I gave up and re-formatted and reinstalled windows 7, this time in 64-bit. And it worked! Now I have quality sound coming from the external speakers. If anyone else experiences this, first try installing without having the speakers plugged in during installation. If not, go 64-bit.

[argos4000]

Someones been using BitTorrent naughty naughty :D

Try installing it through VirtualBox, it's like Paralells but free and just as good. Windows 7 won't work on Q at the moment unfortunatly.

Yup. :p Got the legit version off Microsoft today.

[sascha h-k]

on iMac 3.06 win7 64bit perfect, also sound after r2.14 update, BUT on my mbp 2.4ghz with win7 32bit still no sound ...

i tried any driver around, bootcamp and realtek.


any help appreciated !

[sdsviet]

mbp pro 1st gen 2.0
bootcamp 2.1
windows 7 32bit
sound still doesnt work. installed everyway possible, even the troubleshoot deal. bluetooth still have the whole connecting to the device forever deal too. has anyone found a fool proof fix for this. thinking about switching to 64bit. what are the advantages? i heard that some disadvantages is that some programs dont work. does anyone know what programs they are? also i know that if 64bit is installed its able to take advantage of 4gb ram. can this still be done on the 1st gen mbp since they are still limited to 2gb?

[sascha h-k]

i HAVE SOUND now !
it's for mbp (not unibody) and win7 32bit.
uninstall realtek drivers (under delete programm)
delete audio components (from device manager)
then restart.
insert leopard disk, open with right-click it's content and choose driver, realtek.
here again right-click and as above described choose vista and so on and install, then restart.

NOW, again content leopard drivers choose sigmatel, open this and take the upper (not xp) and install with right-click as mentioned before.

i hope you will get the sound back as i got ...

[twoodcc]

i've got 7 running on my macbook air (1st gen), and i don't have sound either. i'm downloading the realtech drivers now though. hopefully it'll work

[twoodcc]

These (http://rapidshare.com/files/181757750/Vista_R214.zip) drivers worked for me. Download them. It's the same stuff as the files on Realtek's incredibly super slow site (8KBs download speed cap).

thanks for the link! after downloading and installing those drivers on my macbook air, i now have sound!

[Brother Michael]

Just an update from me with my lack of sound from my 3.5mm headphone jack on my aluminium imac. I tried everything but to no avail.

THE SOLUTION:

Finally I gave up and re-formatted and reinstalled windows 7, this time in 64-bit. And it worked! Now I have quality sound coming from the external speakers. If anyone else experiences this, first try installing without having the speakers plugged in during installation. If not, go 64-bit.

ok, ill bite. Downloading 64-bit edition now. I have the latest driver from Realtek (2.14) on my Windows 7 32-bit build, sound works well from my imac internal speakers, not so much from the audio-out though.

[Cameron08]

I can verify this solution worked for me.
I used the Apple Vista driver and it works fine.

What I didn't know until this event was that Apple puts a red
led *inside* the headphone jack on the macbookpro. The LED
was lit (RED) but when I loaded the Vista driver, the LED went
dark and the sound started working. Very cool.

Worked for me thank you!

Oh if anyone else is wondering where the leopard drivers he was referring to is, it's on your leopard install disk go to Computer>Leopard Disk>Boot Camp>Drivers and in there is RealTekSetup

Thank you again!

[GeekOFComedy]

This guy ORION EDWARDS did this

Go into the leopard drivers folder. There should be a directory called Drivers, and under that is a file called RealTekSetup.exe. If you try run this normally, it will fail.

What he did next was:

Right click it, and select Troubleshoot Compatibility
Click Next and wait for it to finish 'Detecting Issues'
Select The program Worked in earlier versions of windows...
Select Windows Vista
Click Next a few times, let the Realtek installer run, reboot, and Presto!

http://orionedwards.blogspot.com/

I will also add this worked perfecto. My mic and webcam,wireless and everything else (expect audio,video and multitouch and special keys) were already pre-working. I got my Nvidia driver off their site and the vista version worked fine. The audio I followed the guide quoted above. And multi touch worked when I installed bootcamp drivers along with the special keys etc. Also I'm working on 64bit 7000

[Brother Michael]

Just an update from me with my lack of sound from my 3.5mm headphone jack on my aluminium imac. I tried everything but to no avail.

THE SOLUTION:

Finally I gave up and re-formatted and reinstalled windows 7, this time in 64-bit. And it worked! Now I have quality sound coming from the external speakers. If anyone else experiences this, first try installing without having the speakers plugged in during installation. If not, go 64-bit.

was there anything that you might have left out? I did the following:

1. Install Windows 7 64-bit
2. Installed Boot Camp Drivers (Boot Camp -> Drivers -> Apple -> BootCamp64)
3. Boot Camp Update Vista 64-bit
4. RealTek R2.14 Vista 32/64 from RealTek.com

Everything is working again, Windows even recognizes that "headphones" were plugged into the Audio-Out Port, but no sound out is produced from the Audio-Out.

EDIT: Interesting Discovery, when I mute the Speakers either from the keyboard or the task bar, sound still is produced from the speakers but it sounds muffled.

EDIT2: SUCCESS! I used the Realtek Drivers from the directory: Boot Camp -> Drivers -> RealTekSetup on the Mac OS X Install Disk 1 and they worked. They uninstalled the original windows drivers (1st Restart), then I re-ran the installer (2nd Restart). Everything works perfectly!

[kurtthewurt]

I followed the previously posted links to download the Realtek HD Audio drivers and installed them, and got sound. But the sound quality is REALLY bad. It crackles and hisses every time a sound plays. It also plays sound on mute, like someone said before. Anybody have a solution to this? I tried the XP drivers, wouldn't even install.

20" Aluminum iMac 2.66ghz

[kurtthewurt]

This guy ORION EDWARDS did this

Go into the leopard drivers folder. There should be a directory called Drivers, and under that is a file called RealTekSetup.exe. If you try run this normally, it will fail.

What he did next was:

Right click it, and select Troubleshoot Compatibility
Click Next and wait for it to finish 'Detecting Issues'
Select The program Worked in earlier versions of windows...
Select Windows Vista
Click Next a few times, let the Realtek installer run, reboot, and Presto!

http://orionedwards.blogspot.com/


IT WORKED!!! I have clear, good quality sound now. I'm so happy!
I was beginning to think nothing would work!

[dkeninitz]

I'd never run Windows on any of my Macs until Win7 came out and started getting such good press on various Mac forums (I'm a switcher: came over to Macs in 2003 after 20 years of using DOS and Windows). Anyway, I installed Win7 on my MacPro, and everything worked well EXCEPT for sound, as many others have noted. It was very faint, regardless of the different fixes I tried. After a week, I got tired having to choose between OS X and Windows at start-up, so I downloaded VMware Fusion 2.0. Apart from it being an awesome program for hot-switching between the two OS's, it solved the sound problem instantly. I now have normal sound qualities in Win7. I assume one of the drivers in the VMware tool-kit is responsible.

[sambou]

if you install window 7 on boot camp or parallels and your are not getting any sound, just go :
1-www.realtek.com
2-click on download tab
3-click on high definition audio codecs(software)
4-accept the agreement,give it 5 second to reload and click next.
5-click on "GO"of Vista driver32/64 bits driver only Executable file, and start downloading install it.

I have tried on my imac and it worked like a charm.

[DigitalDorf]

I have a question for you all using these new codecs. I have a 24 iMac and installed windows 7 7000 (32bit- Simply because it supports Sandboxie)

I donwloaded the drivers for R214 vista and installed them they work, but the sound is not near as good as VISTA or OS X quality. Everything seems a bit heavy on treble and hallow

I tried every setting in the new properties and could not get a good sound out of them. Im using no external speakers just the iMac's and there is a NOTICABLE quality difference from XP, VISTA or OS X using these drivers.

Anyone else notice this? Or have an answer?

[sambou]

I have a speaker hooked up to 24 imac and i can feel a bit of sound distortion off and on. I think this is the best sound you are getting so far untill they come up whith window 7 sound codecs. good luck.

[sambou]

I have a question for you all using these new codecs. I have a 24 iMac and installed windows 7 7000 (32bit- Simply because it supports Sandboxie)

I donwloaded the drivers for R214 vista and installed them they work, but the sound is not near as good as VISTA or OS X quality. Everything seems a bit heavy on treble and hallow

I tried every setting in the new properties and could not get a good sound out of them. Im using no external speakers just the iMac's and there is a NOTICABLE quality difference from XP, VISTA or OS X using these drivers.

Anyone else notice this? Or have an answer?

I have a speaker hooked up to 24 imac and i can feel a bit of sound distortion off and on. I think this is the best sound you are getting so far untill they come up whith window 7 sound codecs. good luck.

[Shadow%20Mac]

1.) locate the RealTek driver in the CD. (BOOTCAMP > Drivers > RealTekSetup)

2.) right-click on it, and select "troubleshoot compatability"
3.) wait for it to finish "detecting issues"
4.) select "this program worked on an earlier version of Windows, but won't install or display correctly now"
5.) select Windows Vista or Windows XP
6.) wait for it to finish "resolving issues", the installer will start. This time it will won't fail

worked 4 me :D

[Yamcha]

Im using Windows 7 on my PC, and this thing is off the hook, believe it or not its similar to Leopard in ways, imo quite a bit better.. or at least just as good.. the dock is a lot like Leopards, no more clutter when you open a ton of windows.. its really amazing.. worth the try imo. And Vista drivers do infact work!! so no worries with compatibility..

Screenshot
http://i42.tinypic.com/103brzb.jpg

[jamesrennie]

I can confirm that Sambou's fix worked perfectly for me. I installed Windows 7 on a 24" Alu iMac, bought summer 08. After installing Windows, I installed the Leapord driver disc, and then downloaded these drivers..If anyone is thinking of using this fix, when asked what site to use to download, use site 2, that's by far the fastest...for UK users anyway. Thanks very much for the help guys :D

[devnevyn]

I installed the realtek drivers from my leopard DVD in Vista compatibility mode, and now at least I got *some* sound, but it's very, very, very quiet... The optical port is activated, too, shining all red :confused:

Gonna try downloading Vista_R216.exe, perhaps newer drivers will work better...

[gururaj]

After trying few other options this worked straightaway on 24' imac 2008. Thanks very much for sharing this info.




This guy ORION EDWARDS did this

Go into the leopard drivers folder. There should be a directory called Drivers, and under that is a file called RealTekSetup.exe. If you try run this normally, it will fail.

What he did next was:

Right click it, and select Troubleshoot Compatibility
Click Next and wait for it to finish 'Detecting Issues'
Select The program Worked in earlier versions of windows...
Select Windows Vista
Click Next a few times, let the Realtek installer run, reboot, and Presto!

http://orionedwards.blogspot.com/

[Bakano]

This guy ORION EDWARDS did this

Go into the leopard drivers folder. There should be a directory called Drivers, and under that is a file called RealTekSetup.exe. If you try run this normally, it will fail.

What he did next was:

Right click it, and select Troubleshoot Compatibility
Click Next and wait for it to finish 'Detecting Issues'
Select The program Worked in earlier versions of windows...
Select Windows Vista
Click Next a few times, let the Realtek installer run, reboot, and Presto!

http://orionedwards.blogspot.com/


AMAZING!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH

Worked perfectly.... after all else failed. Thank you!
:D

[bluebaron]

I'm still stuggling with this i don;t have the lepoard CD where can i download a driver to get sound on my imac 10.4 v2?

[villaferrer]

This is what worked for me:

Used the original OS DVD that came with my imac, installed the bootcamp drivers (3.0 build 2151), then updated to the latest bootcamp version 3.1 http://support.apple.com/downloads/#bootcamp

Hope this helps! :apple:

[satanminicoeur]

Hello,


This is a way to resolve issue with no sound on windows 7,vista,xp on all macbook and mac book pro.
update your intergate speakers driver with the cirrus logic driver and sound will come back.

La seul est unique solution poiur avoir le son sur n importe quel macbook, macbook pro
valable pour
-XP
-Vista
-Windows 7

Soluce: vous devez mettre à jour le bon driver de vos enceintes intégrer qui sont de marque cirrus logic
Allez dans panneau de configuration / son
la vous aurez la liste des periphériques sons installer
Faite clique droit sur les haut-parleur (qui seront indiquer comme ok mais c est une erreur car le mauvais driver est installé)
Faite mettre à jour le pilote est choississer de choisir vous meme le pilote à installer.
Selectionner le pilote du lien ci dessous.
Et voila....
http://www.stuffedcow.net/files/CirrusAudioXP_Macbook_b.zip

ce driver est valable pour toutes les versions de win xp,vista , seven 32 et 64 bit
pour tout les macbook et macbook pro

PS: ce driver est trouvable sur n importe quel cd de MAC osx ,leopard,snow. dans la rubrique /bootcamp/drivers/cirrus.

a noter que, lors d une instal d un win sur un MAC vous dever installer les drivers Nvidia et broadcom manuellement.
le setup exe de bootcamp ne les installe pas mais ils sont sur le cd mac osx.


signed by Imftb

[odball]

I had the same problem in Vista, and then when trying to upgrade to W7 had a "0x80070005" error so I followed the advise at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3172 to disable the MacHD volume.

This allowed the W7 upgrade to continue. Then I followed the advice to to run the Repair option for Boot Camp Drivers when runnnig setup from the Snow Leopard DVD.

This also re-installed the sound drivers and now I have full fidelity sound, no rootling around for drivers needed.

Hope you have the same success.