Thread: No voice output device installed No mic plugged in

This is the problem im having with now with Vista 64bit.

I have a sould blaster x-fi titanium

an a nforce 750i sli mobo

When I have the sound card in it fixes the " No voice output device installed" , which means when I don't have it the on board sound does not work.

When I do have the sound card in, the mic appear as plugged in ( even though it is)

I've tried reinstalling the drivers

Disabling/enabling on board sound

reformatting to 32 bit

unistalling hardware and rebooting

an countless other ideas.

I'm lost i've spent a lot of time on this and I can't seem to figure out why the mic wont work with the sound card and why if I don't use the sound card can't I get on board sound.

help?!

I tried the card on an old xp home disc an it works. it's most definitely something to do with 64 bit drivers.

thoughts?

Are you getting any error messages about sound services not being started up or failing to initialize?

When I installed vista64 I had an issue with the sound service not automatically starting for some reason....I had to open the services control panel and manually set it to startup.

Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Services

Check services Windows Audio Endpoint Builder and Windows Audio. Also open them up and check their dependencies and make sure those are running ok and set to run.

no errors.

Just when i have the sound card in the mic will not show as plugged in.

I went through the device manager and there aren't any question marks it all looks fine.

When I dont have the sound card in it just has the x by the volume " no output device installed" even though i installed realtek drivers.

Are you using drivers from the board website or generic realtek drivers?

i used the 64bit drivers from the creative site and still the mic doesnt show.

if I could just get the mic part to work I could give 2 craps about on board sound.

the card obviously works, cause I tested it on xp home.

but not on vista 64?!

I'm grasping at straws here, but maybe try to remap the sound card ports and use a different one for mic and see if that works? Not sure if that sound software allows it, some do. For example I use my rear speaker output as a second front audio output. Maybe you can set the port that is normally for sound to the mic and test it.

Are you using different mics? When you tested it at home, the mic worked then right?

And you went into sound properties through control panel and checked all of the tabs and boxes for the mic and sound card to make sure nothing was set goofy?

yeah

let me run through it again.

ima reinstall vista64 sigh.. ill be on steam in a bit thanks.

solve, mods can lock this.