New HD audio driver released!

[iicecube]

Hi IMweasel,

I opened my case and look at the motherboard and yes it indicated as VIA VT2020. The 9000version it should have left out VT2020 or something that my audio cant successful detect it. All 8000version detect well without giving me any problem.

Okie i will post the hardware-ID, see what you can do about it.
- HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_1106&DEV_0441&SUBSYS_104383E4& REV_1001
- HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_1106&DEV_0441&SUBSYS_104383E4

[IMweasel]

Originally Posted by iicecube

Hi IMweasel,

I opened my case and look at the motherboard and yes it indicated as VIA VT2020. The 9000version it should have left out VT2020 or something that my audio cant successful detect it. All 8000version detect well without giving me any problem.

Okie i will post the hardware-ID, see what you can do about it.
- HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_1106&DEV_0441&SUBSYS_104383E4& REV_1001
- HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_1106&DEV_0441&SUBSYS_104383E4

I have been able to find your exact device id's in the v9600 driver files. Extract that package somewhere, you'll need it.
This topic applies to you from here on, read it cerefully;
hxxp://www.viaarena.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43731
The designated file you have to use , -for manual driver installation- , is in your case: viahdb5.inf
Let me know if you've made progress.

[iicecube]

Okiex i tried the steps by manual and it still wont worked either. It just show me a "X" in my taskbar of the sound audio. Below is the picture i done everything by your steps.
Yes indeed it show at the driver page as 9600 but after restart my computer it turn back to "yellow !" without playing any sounds.

[IMweasel]

Truly odd. Especially because the wizard shows the v9600 driver as compatible.
Does it respond this way, manually installing , with all the v9x00 packages?

You might want to try to disable the AMD high definition audio device first, before you retry anything.
Can you physically remove it, or disable it in BIOS? It should not list in the device manager anymore before you retry.
This device might confuse the installer, and/or driver.
Also uninstall any sound drivers you have installed before you retry.

[iicecube]

Tried with disable my Graphic card "HDMI amd audio" but also without luck.
version 8800 install using the setup.exe install with ease but version 9000 all wont work.

I also checked that 8700/8800 doesn't have window 7 driver support yet but all 9000version added window 7 32/64 which i think this is the main reason why we cant install those 9000version.

Note: I also took out win732/64 driver from 9000series but it wont let me install it as some coding is written there which it force me to use the actual OS which need to edit.

You can compare 8800 and 9600 driver after they implement the win7 driver that cause us cant install from setup.exe.

[IMweasel]

I don't have really much time the next few days... but i have another few suggestions.
-Try out different x64 or x32 drivers depending on your OS's computing.
-Use the .inf file from the v8800 and drop it in the v9600 folder, overwriting the .inf file.
Then retry the v9600 installer, or by manual installation.

If you really can't figure it out, you should use google to search for the "SupremeFX X-Fi". There's tons of people struggling with it, and some have managed to get it going using Soundmax drivers.
Others using the included cd.
Also the chip seems to have "Creative" technology integrated, which makes it hard to figure it out!

[IMweasel]

iicecube did you manage to get your sound chip working?

[jojoman]

Originally Posted by IMweasel

iicecube did you manage to get your sound chip working?

I dunno about him, but I DID, with the same motherboard he has (Asus Crosshair IV Formula) and without having to use the manual installation.

First of all, let me assure that this mobo uses a VIA VT2020 chipset which takes advantage of the Creative X-FI MB software to emulate the EAX effects at some extent.

Now, what I did to upgrade from 8.700a to the newest drivers (9.600) on my Windows 7 x64 system was:
1) uninstall the Creative X-FI MB software suite;
2) restart;
3) uninstall the 8.700a VIA drivers;
4) restart;
5) delete all the folders related to Creative and VIA on the HD (mainly in the Appdata folder under my user account);
6) clean the registry from all the old Creative and VIA voices (I used the CCleaner registry tool to clean it);
7) restart;
8) install the new 9.600 VIA drivers;
9) restart;
10) at this point, the audio icon had no remarks, but I couldn't hear any sound. Guess what? I dunno why, but the system had defaulted to headphones (and I've no headphones connected... nevermind, computers are odd, sometimes). So, I had to default to the speakers and I could finally hear the system sounds;
11) install the Creative X-FI MB software suite again (it's on the Asus download section of the mobo);
12) restart;
13) launch the Creative autoupdate and try to update ONLY the MB software suite. The update fails, but it makes the system recognize the onboard audio VT2020 as a Creative soundcard (without this step, the Creative suite denied to give me access to its advanced functions, telling that it couldn't detect a valid Creative product).
14) enjoy

Hope it helps.

[IMweasel]

Nice contribution jojoman, it will probably help a lot of VT2020 users!

[iicecube]

As mention above i did as what you told but still cant get the audio to work as the "!" on the driver page which there is nothing come out in my taskbar. Even i try to install the sound-blaster without luck as well.

Maye im out of luck on the VT2020 audio driver. Gotten to wait for another update to try it on. Sign