Hello

I am currently having a problem with my sound card on my computer. It is a Realtek Audio 97. The sound volume has reduced down substantailly and I can hardly hear it without putting headphones on and then at full volume it is not very loud.

I have tried the Start, Run, Sndvol32 suggestion on one of the other threads and have checked that everything is not muted and it at full volume but this still does not increase the volume.

Any thoughts?

Master Volume too low....

Should be editable in the settings>control panel>sounds and audio devices ...

I had a lot of problems with the same onboard audio card as you and some other problems with it. I went into the BIOS diabled the onboard sound and installed a normal Soundblaster card. My PC never sounded this good before.

Word.

Of all things, I have a Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI (circa 1998) in my new-ish (2003) computer.

Isn't it dangerous to go into the BIOS? - I've heard you can do serious damage to your computer and this should only be done by a technician.

Yes, you're right.

However it is perfectly safe to go in and only change the setting we're talking about (disabling onboard audio). It won't affect anything else.

Anyone Help? I have on board sound on Gigabyte GA-1915PL. Sound is Realtek AC97 and sound is tinny....almost no bass...any suggestions?

just make sure you connected the speaker- / headphone cable into the right output port (if it's a 5.1 chip, choose the one for the front speakers) and make sure you have set up the correct sound setup (5.1 / stereo / headphones) in your windows / driver settings.
if it still does not sound good, go and get a dedicated (good) sound card

I am getting the sound being disturbed (breaking up) in between when playing any music. Even if it is online music it's doing the same thing. This started happening after I installed XP SP2. Can anybody help??

I am using the Realtek AC 97 audio card and am having problems with Adobe Premier Pro. It keeps crashing and tells me I have a [\dev\stingrayh\backend\src\filecache\filecache.cpp-879] error message. I also found that Premiere needs an Direct Sound or ASIO compatible sound card. Is Realtek compatible with these two cards? or does anyone know why I keep crashing and why my wave line will not appear in Premier timeline?

I had the same problem, when i reinstalled my Acer TravelMate 2400, which contains the same soundchip. After having installed the original drivers from the manufacturer this didn't solve the problem. I did a little on/off trial-and-error i actually ended up with a solution - inspired by this thread http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=84730

In c:\windows\system32\drivers i found two files:

alcxhweq.dat
alcxinit.dat

I deleted those, rebooted, disabled the soundmanager equalizer and sat s/pdif-out to analog and digital. This seemed to have worked for me.

/Bubber