Sound / Audio

[#1]

Last night I finished my upgrade to Windows 7, Ran the Official "Toshiba Software Installer for WIndows 7" and was initially pleased to see that nearly all my original Laptop funcaionality, from my Card Reader, to my Fingerprint scanner worked without an issue.

This joy though was soon crushed the momment I went on youtube, and experianced my computers "New" audio fidelity.

My Laptop came with built in Harman Kardon 4.1 speakers, and I have always been complimented by friends at how rich my sound quality was compared to other laptops they had seen.

Now it seems that the currently most updated Realtek Audio Drivers for WIndows 7 (And for that matter Vista and XP aswell, I've tried everything) do not seem to be able to do more than just basic stero sound.

Both my surround speakers and my Subwoofer seem to be completly ignored, and my computer now has a tinny sound to it that is rather offputting when compaired to it's previous preformance.

Can SOMEONE please give me a solution to this, because it's rather maddening to constantly be reminded of the capability I've lost when ever I so much as try and watch a movie, let alone play a video game...

-Tim

[#2]

I should also mention that is was not actually an "Upgrade" but a true clean OS install, and also it was an upgrade from a 32 bit version of Vista to the 64 bit version of Win 7 Ultimate.

Hope that can help someones diagnosis...

-Tim

[#3]

If you find a solution to this, let me know. Exact same issue here too.

[#4]

Same trouble has been giving me headaches for some time and i came across interesting thing on two forums, can't remember which one.

Two guys have been able to fix the problem just by installing new drivers from Realtek and then they copied old vista installed files (if i saw good the ones in c:\program files\realtek dir) over the new installed files.

Old audio Vista drivers were  original from the beginning 'couse they had same problem with new drivers even on Vista.

That said, I would really appreciate if someone who reads this thread would post link to packed dir i mentioned earlier with original audio files.

Thx in advance, and i hope i helped.