Yep, speakers are fine and indeed buzz with a wet finger on the 3.5 mm plug.
Several items have been tried, with a DC resistance ranging from 3ohms to 16k. Right now it is totally un-responsive.
As an old on-the-bench valve tekkie, I'm really inclined towards a hardware fault, but the stacking up of unwanted code does seem very logical. Nothing I can find with a Mk8 AVO I'm thinking.
Below is something that I thought might be an interesting thread, but I'll leave it in here for now.
The idea was that I could uninstall the Windows offering and then stop it being re-loaded on start. Then load the Realtek drivers from the DVD. Not that this would kill the current crop of detritus.
Indeed, the Realtek install says that it is overwriting the existing offering.
W7 is extraordinarily good at finding drivers. But can I stop it?
The Start-up menu shows the Applications of course and a few third-party drivers, but the basics seem to be hidden from the user.
In this case it does pertain to the problems I'm having with sound, but it does occur to me that it might be useful to know how to contain Window's enthusiasm.
Last edited by Loose rivets; 21st April 2010 at 01:16.