Audio Driver Not Working Properly in Windows 8

Audio Driver Not Working Properly in Windows 8 - Windows 8 General

Hi I've created a Windows 8.1 partition seperate to the original Windows 7 install. The manufacturer, Acer says the model is supported for the Win 8 upgrade. I did it on a second partition and simply installed the W8 drivers from their website. It uses Dolby Digital Audio V4. It sounds poor on Win 8 though, on the occasion that I boot back into Win 7 the difference is like night and day. Any icons in the try, apps etc. appear to be properly installed and loaded in Win 8 yet the audio quality from the speaker and with a headset is still degraded.
Any ideas or tips on what could be the issue?
Thank

Search on the audio chipset name + "Windows 8.1 driver" suffix. Box vendors don't usually have the latest driver, and Acer boxes are usually plain vanilla enough that its drivers are unmodded from the chipset vendor.
Win 8.1 may refuse to install the OEM driver, since its built-in driver may have a later date stamp, even though it's an older version. You can force install by: Win+X > Device Mgr > select audio device > Driver tab > Update driver > Browse my computer > Let me pick from list of device driver.
If the new driver (if exists) fail, select Roll back driver, and try to force install the Win7 driver.

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[Request][Bounty] NextWindow Touchscreen Driver Install for Windows 8

***IF THIS THREAD IS IN THE WRONG SECTION I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF IT WERE MOVED TO THE CORRECT SECTION. I BELIEVE THIS IS CORRECT BUT I AM NOT SURE. IF ITS NOT MOVED THEN INFORM ME AND ILL POST IN CORRECT SECTION.***
Ok so here is my situation. I have a HP Touchsmart 520-1030 and I am wanting to use windows 8 with the touchscreen. That being said it appears that on both the Developer and Consumer release that the driver for it does not work well with Windows 8 even though it works fine on Windows 7 (I have it dual booted on seperate partitions).
So here is a description of what I have attempted so far.
Downloaded the Driver package from HP's Website and ran. Wouldnt install as gave OS version error.
So I ran in compatibility mode Windows 7 with admin permissions (also taken ownership). I get the same error about the OS version.
I then went to NextWindow's website and downloaded the original (older) drivers from there. It says its installed but does not work (device manager showing touchscreen with a ! on it.)
I then tried to update the driver in DM and search gives an error.
I then browsed to the installation folder of the drivers and it states cant find driver.
I then went back and compared it with windows 7 drivers and see the "touchscreen" driver is NextWindow Voltron Touchscreen. I then compared the Hardware IDs and sure enough they are the same ID's (I believe).
I then used a universal extractor and extracked the package for HP and NextWindow and attempted to manually update the driver through DM. It updates but I get an error with the HP packages (code:10 Device will not start) It shows correctly now but has ! next to the name
I rolled it back and updated with the NextWindow Drivers the same way. It installed successfully but when attempting to use the touchscreen no response. (also name is different NextWindow Multi-Touch Device)
so I rolled back and attemped to update manually without the extracted packages (using Windows Default ID's it has) I see one that states NextWindow and it seems to have the same information as the packages. I get the same errors.
So natrually now I see it seems to be the NextWindow Drivers are what is causing the problem. In doing research (reports on multiple forums) it appears that many all-in-one or overlaid monitor is having the same issue with the NextWindow Drivers. Now that being said I have seen what appears to be HP Touchsmart 610's running Windows 8 on youtube (developers build as the are older vids) and doubt that MS would have removed the drivers if they were working.
So the Bounty for me will start at $40 Dollars starting at the time of this post. Every 24 hours that this post remains unsolved I will dock $1 dollars from the total bounty (basically im looking for a quick solution not one after drivers have been redone by the NextWindow already.) If you can solve this its a quick $40 for just basically searching around and seeing something I couldnt figure out. This also may help ALOT of people that have All-in-ones as these drivers are made for multiple PC's with touchscreen devices (8 manufactuers total such as Sony, Lenovo, HP, ect.)
Good Luck (and I prefer to pay via Paypal to make things easy.)

Try locate the driver inside the System32 file on a Windows 7 computer then copy it to the Windows 8 computer, hit Update Driver and point it at the driver you just copied. Basically this is manually installing the driver without the .exe installer HP provided you (and gives the OS error). Almost all Windows 7 drivers work on Windows 8, just the package you use does not.
Right click My Computer > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager > Your Device > Right click it > Properties > Driver > Driver Details.
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Try locate the driver inside the System32 file on a Windows 7 computer then copy it to the Windows 8 computer, hit Update Driver and point it at the driver you just copied. Basically this is manually installing the driver without the .exe installer HP provided you (and gives the OS error). Almost all Windows 7 drivers work on Windows 8, just the package you use does not.
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Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately that was a no go. Unless im not reading the driver names correctly I have copied them from on drive to the other and attempted to update it that way. Same results.
These were the drivers I copied and moved from System32
drivers\mshidkmdf.sys
drivers\NWTransLibV.sys
drivers\NWVoltron.sys
WdfCoInstaller01009.dll
Thanks for the input though.

ca2l3vin said:
Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately that was a no go. Unless im not reading the driver names correctly I have copied them from on drive to the other and attempted to update it that way. Same results.
These were the drivers I copied and moved from System32
drivers\mshidkmdf.sys
drivers\NWTransLibV.sys
drivers\NWVoltron.sys
WdfCoInstaller01009.dll
Thanks for the input though.
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Maybe you could give a try at double driver (boozet.org)

Thanks for the reply. unfortunately it fails the install this way aswell.

you can try and modd the inf file i ont have the hw what you guys only i able to compare is the win 8 cp x64 and win 7 x64 amd radeon driver there are a lot difference

ca2l3vin said:
***IF THIS THREAD IS IN THE WRONG SECTION I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF IT WERE MOVED TO THE CORRECT SECTION. I BELIEVE THIS IS CORRECT BUT I AM NOT SURE. IF ITS NOT MOVED THEN INFORM ME AND ILL POST IN CORRECT SECTION.***
Ok so here is my situation. I have a HP Touchsmart 520-1030 and I am wanting to use windows 8 with the touchscreen. That being said it appears that on both the Developer and Consumer release that the driver for it does not work well with Windows 8 even though it works fine on Windows 7 (I have it dual booted on seperate partitions).
So here is a description of what I have attempted so far.
Downloaded the Driver package from HP's Website and ran. Wouldnt install as gave OS version error.
So I ran in compatibility mode Windows 7 with admin permissions (also taken ownership). I get the same error about the OS version.
I then went to NextWindow's website and downloaded the original (older) drivers from there. It says its installed but does not work (device manager showing touchscreen with a ! on it.)
I then tried to update the driver in DM and search gives an error.
I then browsed to the installation folder of the drivers and it states cant find driver.
I then went back and compared it with windows 7 drivers and see the "touchscreen" driver is NextWindow Voltron Touchscreen. I then compared the Hardware IDs and sure enough they are the same ID's (I believe).
I then used a universal extractor and extracked the package for HP and NextWindow and attempted to manually update the driver through DM. It updates but I get an error with the HP packages (code:10 Device will not start) It shows correctly now but has ! next to the name
I rolled it back and updated with the NextWindow Drivers the same way. It installed successfully but when attempting to use the touchscreen no response. (also name is different NextWindow Multi-Touch Device)
so I rolled back and attemped to update manually without the extracted packages (using Windows Default ID's it has) I see one that states NextWindow and it seems to have the same information as the packages. I get the same errors.
So natrually now I see it seems to be the NextWindow Drivers are what is causing the problem. In doing research (reports on multiple forums) it appears that many all-in-one or overlaid monitor is having the same issue with the NextWindow Drivers. Now that being said I have seen what appears to be HP Touchsmart 610's running Windows 8 on youtube (developers build as the are older vids) and doubt that MS would have removed the drivers if they were working.
So the Bounty for me will start at $40 Dollars starting at the time of this post. Every 24 hours that this post remains unsolved I will dock $1 dollars from the total bounty (basically im looking for a quick solution not one after drivers have been redone by the NextWindow already.) If you can solve this its a quick $40 for just basically searching around and seeing something I couldnt figure out. This also may help ALOT of people that have All-in-ones as these drivers are made for multiple PC's with touchscreen devices (8 manufactuers total such as Sony, Lenovo, HP, ect.)
Good Luck (and I prefer to pay via Paypal to make things easy.)
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Hi I did not figure this out but i'm having the same problem, I found this solution on the microsoft website questions and answers. Pleasr let us know if this works for you. Thanks. I had tried that but the install would not start because it didn't see the OS as valid.
BUT I did get it to work by doing a restore to factory settings (Windows 7) and rerunning the Windows 8 install directly from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download and selecting to KEEP the installed apps and user files. On my failed Win8 install attempt I used a Windows 8 ISO file and selected to NOT keep any apps or user files.
Not sure which if the 2 changes made the difference but the touch screen works now in Win 8.

Ok, I tried this out and it does work. I have a hp 520-1031 and now my touch screen works with windows 8

So only way around from what I see is to install windows 7 first then run windows 8 as an update. Though this isn't the solution I was hoping for (as now I have to install windows 7 on a partition first then rerun the install for windows 8) I do thank you for your efforts and the bounty is yours Tragicwayz
you can PM me your information and by the end of next week your payment of $27 will be in your box (this is calculated from the time of your first post of the solution from the time I started the thread)
Thanks again

You are welcome, I have tried many solutions as well but could not get the touch screen working. I hope this helps others with their touchscreen.

I have a TS 7320 and the touchscreen driver for Windows 8 didn't work either. Next I installed Win7 x64 to get it running before upgrading to Win8.
Unfortunately, my device won't install the drivers from de HP website, nor from NextWindow. I looked at the INF file and there is a difference in the device id. My PC shows a 'REV_0008&MI_02' addition to the VENID and DEVID. Altering the INF file manually makes the install work, but the driver fails with error 10 (won't start)…
Any suggestions where to get a working driver for Windows 7 x64?
(I wiped the disk to install Win8, so no recovery disk/partition from HP )

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So the solution is to upgrade from Win 7?
sounds more like a work around to me.
If it were me id mod the drivers, within the INF file for the drivers you downloaded it will state which OS versions are excepted. all you have to do is make Win 8s version an excepted version, then point the INF to the win 7 driver its self, usually the driver folder may contain drivers for several versions of windows if it doesn't the its just a case of adding win 8s version number to it.

Modifing the inf file and re-sign it.
Maybe you should follow the steps that I did to install Windows 7 display driver, but do it for the multi-touch driver. Since I can't provide a link, do a web seach for "running-angry-birds-on-the-build-samsung-tablet-with-windows-8-consumer-preview"
Alon.

Solution mate.. seems stupid but works!! Last posts on this..
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/TouchSmart-PC/Windows-8/td-p/1314493/page/3

Trying to get the multitouch working. Downloaded these drivers from nextwindow http://www.nextwindow.com/nextwindow_support/windriver.html
The driver had no effect on the multitouch, so it's still single touch...
Does someone have a clue how to get multitouch working?

Solution !
Here's what you need to do to get Multitouch working on a HP Touchsmart 520 under Windows 8:
1.) download Intel Graphics Beta driver from downloadcenter.intel.com
2.) install the latest Voltron driver from HP driver base.
This isn't very stable unfortunately (screen freezes from time2time).
But it's the requested solution (4 the time being).
Cheers

No solution !
michaelreuss said:
Here's what you need to do to get Multitouch working on a HP Touchsmart 520 under Windows 8:
1.) download Intel Graphics Beta driver from downloadcenter.intel.com
2.) install the latest Voltron driver from HP driver base.
This isn't very stable unfortunately (screen freezes from time2time).
But it's the requested solution (4 the time being).
Cheers
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Crap ! I have to correct myself. Due to the bugginess I reinstalled Win8. Now the Touchscreen driver won't install any more, no matter what display driver I use.
WTF ?

[HOW TO] KFHD 7 MTP Driver Problem Windows 7 N Version

Hey there,
I found a solution for the MTP-Driver issue under Windows 7 N Edition.
A few days ago I bought a new SSD Drive for my Desktop.
So i decided to install a fully new Windows on it, cause my windows 7 x64 was about 4 years in use now and doesnt worked reliable.
I decided to give Windows 7 N Version a try, cause it comes without some futures i thought i would not need.
ATM I use this KF First Aide with my KFHD 7
Installation of the ADB Driver worked without a problem, but i still got the yellow triangle on MTP Driver.
Tried then to install the driver manually using windows update. it didnt find a driver for MTP.
Tried to install the MTP device manualy selecting MTP Device in the "all devices" list (Standard MTP Device).
But this didnt work either.
After hours of searching i found a thread that led me to this :
As promised by Microsoft the N Version comes WITHOUT the Windows Media Player.
But as it seams the Windows Media Player contains the MTP Driver.
For god sake microsoft provides a pack to install it manually Media Feature Pack für Windows 7 N
This works of course only with original Windows as u have to pass a Genuine Verification to download it.
After installing the pack. The windows update found 2 other updates. i got them too and restarted my system. Now the triangle is gone. And my KFHD is recognised as Portable Device and everything works fine.
Dunno weather it will work with other Windows 7 Versions.

Metnies said:
Hey there,
I found a solution for the MTP-Driver issue under Windows 7 N Edition.
A few days ago I bought a new SSD Drive for my Desktop.
So i decided to install a fully new Windows on it, cause my windows 7 x64 was about 4 years in use now and doesnt worked reliable.
I decided to give Windows 7 N Version a try, cause it comes without some futures i thought i would not need.
ATM I use this KF First Aide with my KFHD 7
Installation of the ADB Driver worked without a problem, but i still got the yellow triangle on MTP Driver.
Tried then to install the driver manually using windows update. it didnt find a driver for MTP.
Tried to install the MTP device manualy selecting MTP Device in the "all devices" list (Standard MTP Device).
But this didnt work either.
After hours of searching i found a thread that led me to this :
As promised by Microsoft the N Version comes WITHOUT the Windows Media Player.
But as it seams the Windows Media Player contains the MTP Driver.
For god sake microsoft provides a pack to install it manually Media Feature Pack für Windows 7 N
This works of course only with original Windows as u have to pass a Genuine Verification to download it.
After installing the pack. The windows update found 2 other updates. i got them too and restarted my system. Now the triangle is gone. And my KFHD is recognised as Portable Device and everything works fine.
Dunno weather it will work with other Windows 7 Versions.
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This is just ridiculous..
I have Windows 8.1 N Pro installed and can't use either, because it is missing the MTP driver. The fact that i have to install the Media Feature Pack to use a fundamental feature of my PC is just F***** UP! It is just Microsoft's way of giving the finger to the EU, and it makes the N-version completely useless.
But i refuse to install Windows Media Player and all that other crap just to use my Nexus 5 with my new laptop. If i have to write to the EU to try and make them force Microsoft to make the driver available as a standalone install, i will. This is just principally wrong of Microsoft, but really not surprising.
If people would just boycot Microsoft they might learn. But that will never happen, unfortunately..

Windows 8.1 - Device Manager don't remove the driver?

Hello All,
I installed my fresh Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64 bits (build 9600), on my Acer V3-571G laptop.
Only I have a little problem.
When I go to device manager, and I want uninstall this driver.
--> Imaging devices
--> and Bluetooth,
When I Disable and Uninstall them, then, it's seems te drivers are gone!
But when I restarts mine Laptop, the Imaging devices and bluetooth, comes back?
Why is that? How I can complete remove that?
In the standard Windows 8 (not 8.1) that was possible? But 8.1?
Manny thanks..

Test 123..

Drivers will automatically re-install unless you have installed a different driver for that hardware... it's been that way since Vista. Deleting the driver files will slow the process down somewhat (require the computer to pull the driver off Windows Update), and you can disable that step (don't allow automatic searching online for drivers) if you want to...
Some reason why just disabling the driver wasn't good enough?

no sound after upgrade to windows 10 pc

hi everyone, i just upgrade my pc from 8.1 to windows 10.but after successfull installation there is no sound in pc..it shows that no audio device found.i attached screenshort below...
and i also clean install windows 7...but the problem still remained....i also install driver but not work.....need n help

Have you tried updating your driver's?
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A AJAY said:
hi everyone, i just upgrade my pc from 8.1 to windows 10.but after successfull installation there is no sound in pc..it shows that no audio device found.i attached screenshort below...
and i also clean install windows 7...but the problem still remained....i also install driver but not work.....need n help
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Install proper sound drivers
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no driver worked......i try clean install of windows 7 and use my driver cd but,,there is no sound

So you formatted again and did another install of Windows 7, and it still doesn't show up? Is it onboard audio? Check the BIOS to ensure it's enabled.
Google brings up a lot of results, have you tried looking at them? What does Device Manager show?
If it still doesn't work, the sound card/motherboard if onboard might be dead.

I can't count on two hands how many people, including myself had this upgrade problem. Always audio or video.
Firstly, I'd check to see on the notebook/pc manufacturer website if they have Windows 10 drivers for your model. That's the best place to start.
Some older drivers are getting automatically updated through Windows Update. It seems Microsoft has encouraged some key driver updates. E.g. Intel integrated graphics.
Lastly, uninstall the driver, reboot your computer, now, install the driver again under compatibility mode for the version of Windows you have.
For audio, compatibility mode worked. Get this. My notebook came with Windows 7. The Windows 7 driver works (after about 20 attempts) but the Windows 8 driver doesn't. My understanding is that Windows 8 drivers are a bit more compatible with 10 than 7. But the 7 driver actually worked better.
Let us know how you get on.

Cannot install LGH990N as Audio Interface in Windows 10 (Code 10)

I wanted to use my LGH990N as an audio interface via USB in Windows 10.
In developer options I selected USB Configuration > Audio Source, and waited for the driver to install. It did, but never run properly, and ended with the infamous Code 10.
Important information
1) The driver works for all other types of connection (MTP, PTP, MIDI, ...)
2) I have the latest drivers, latest LG Android Update, latest Windows Update. I have tried to manually download and reinstall the drivers.
3) I have tried to search for the Code 10 solutions and tried whatever I have found. Removing the UpperLimit and LowerLimit values in Windows registry, completely reinstalling all the USB devices, restarting up and down the road.
No success so far.
Anybody had a similar problem?

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