[pandamoose]

I've been pretty irked by my computer giving me problems. It's nothing I can't deal with, but it's very annoying.

I have a realtek onboard high definition audio driver with the appropriate hardware on my motherboard. Recently though, it will stop functioning randomly. As far as I can tell, it has something to do with internet.

-I use the internet (firefox) and I'm fine.
-For some reason when I sleep or am away for a long period of time, the sound bugs out while I'm gone. I get back, and my computer stops recognizing drivers.
-After the sound bugs out, I can still get sound on firefox if I go on websites that have sound.
-After the sound bugs out, every other program on my computer ceases to recognize that I have a sound driver installed.
-It is fixed when I restart my computer.

Anyone know what might be going on?

[Megabite]

Howdy,

Have you tried updating your Sound driver....or even going to Device Manager and Uninstalling it and restarting the PC...it will re-install it on startup.

[huggie54]

any yellow exclamation marks/red crosses in device manager>hardware

[pandamoose]

I have not updated my sound driver. It should be pretty up to date considering i re-installed everything on my computer not too long ago with all the latest drivers.

Yes, there is a yellow exclamation mark on my audio driver in the device manager when this happens.

[Megabite]

Did you install the Motherboard drivers........

[pandamoose]

yes, motherboard drivers are installed.

[Megabite]

Maybe the sound driver needs to be re-installed like I suggested uninstalling from Device Manager and re-starting.

Was that the only sound driver you tried to install or did it take more than one attempt?

Also could be something corrupting it....but hard to say what

[huggie54]

highlight the yellow ! in device manager click on the Action tab and update

[pandamoose]

Alright, I've updated the graphics driver.

Yes, it's the only driver I have installed. I never had to try again.

This bug only happens when I leave the internet on for long periods of time for some reason. I'll see if it happens again by tomorrow and post some more info then.

[Megabite]

Ok ........

[pandamoose]

OK, so an update:

After re-installing the driver, I'm still having a similar problem. Now, instead of it giving me the yellow triangle in my device manager, it says that all my devices are working properly. when I go into my sounds and audio devices in control panel, everything is listed as "no playback device".

Any ideas?

[The Hound]

Try this---

Unistall the Realtek HD Audio Codec---don't reboot yet.
Under System Devices, find something called a Microsoft UAA something or other...
Right click and disable, then right click and uninstall---you won't be able to uninstall until you disable it.
Once that's uninstalled, try reinstalling your Realtek HD Audio Codec.