However, this build only contains Lenovo specific entries. The latest Realtek driver I know about is currently build 7179 (a Realtek 2.74 build). manufacturers pay for WHQL instead, and then of course there are non-WHQL drivers. Sometimes even the manufacturer of the chip (Realtek etc) don't have the latest drivers, as they have to pay for WHQL. It's a French site, but pretty easy to navigate:
Same goes with display drivers etc!Ī good place to go for latest drivers is station-drivers. It's much better to go directly to the manufacturer of the device in question, in this case, to Realtek.
Manufacturer motherboards rarely update drivers to the latest versions, especially for older boards.
If it does and you are lucky Realtek High Definition Audio Driver should show up as well,then install them. The only thing i can recommend you at the moment is to run Windows Update to see if any drivers related to your mother board are found, I would also check in Control Panel/device manager to see if any drivers are missing or not working(they will have a yellow ? mark on them. OK just a question after you are finished installing Win 8.1 without installing any drivers,do you get any sound at all with Microsoft's drivers? I can only assume that Windows 8-8.1 already has all the drivers built in for your Motherboard. If you look under MSI's Win 7 X64 drivers list,you will clearly see that the Realtek High Definition Audio Driver stating (NonWin8).ĭon't want to upset you or anything but your mobo might be incompatible with Win 8.1.Since there are no drivers listed on MSI's page for Widows 8-8.1, Windows 8.1 has a lot of drivers already included in the installation process. Hi Badrawan i just checked MSI's official page for your MSI 770T-C45 and there seems to not have any drivers for windows 8.įrom the drop down list under drivers only Win 7 圆4 seems to be supported,i am not saying that Windows 8.1 can't run on your MSI motherboard. Pack with Microsoft High Definition Audio UAAV1.0a(5013) For Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1, XP SP2, Server 2003 SP1. OS Supporting: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 - x86/圆4 HDMI Device WHQL Support: ATI HDMI Devices (High Definition Audio System Software - Realtek ALC Audio drivers) Name: Realtek High Definition Audio drivers New version of High Definition Audio drivers for sound card from the company Realtek, drivers are designed for operating systems Windows 200X, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 - 32/64 bit. Realtek High Definition Audio drivers R2.7. You should search exact model number on the manufacturers website if you want a particular models drivers.Download Realtek HD Audio 2.73 Driver for Windows XP, Vista Windows 7 and 8 For most users, the package from Realtek original driver is the one to use. The Realtek Audio manger is packaged in a few different ways a direct from Realtek as version R2.82 or a custom pack as done by Intel or Sony for example. These generic drivers are extremely basic and sometimes simply can’t operate the sound card at all.
Windows 10 has been getting more stringent with things like security and driver signing which will disable drivers and even stop installation drivers opting to install Microsoft’s own generic drivers that don’t include the audio manager.
The R2.82 driver is still absolutely fine, however because it isn’t updated often by Realtek, Windows during an upgrade process with remove the driver. Realtek’s own support for the drivers has very little updates, in fact drivers for the Realtek audio drivers and audio manager haven’t been updated since July 2017, leaving us with version R2.82 in 2020. The Audio manager gives control of many extra settings that are not in Windows 10 such as speaker configurations, Sound effects and Virtual Surround settings. Realtek’s onboard sound card device drivers include an Audio Manager that is packaged with the installation of the Codec. After version updates/service packs within Microsoft Windows 11/10 versions or even major upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8 there has been a plague of issues related to Realtek sound device chipsets being removed during the process, even though the drivers for these earlier Operating Systems is the same, they get removed sometimes.