Can't Uninstall Realtek AC'97 Audio drivers

[SpartansMan]

Hello, I can not delete the Realtek sound drivers. When I deleting them through Programs and Features, and rebooting computer, they appear again .. My motherboard is K8N4-E and sound card Realtek ALC850.

 

[ko888]

If you're not going to be using the onboard AC97 Audio then you can disable it in BIOS.

Phoenix - Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility ====> Advanced ====> Onboard Device Configuration

Change the AC97 Audio setting from [Enabled] to [Disabled].

 

[SBMfromLA]

OR... you could just go to Device Manager and disable from there if you don't want to do it from the BIOS.

 

[ko888]

Disabling it in BIOS frees up hardware resources like IRQ's and reserved memory mapped I/O address ranges.

 

[SBMfromLA]

Disabling it in BIOS frees up hardware resources like IRQ's and reserved memory mapped I/O address ranges.

I just offered an alternative in case the user does not like going to BIOS or isn't able too.

 

[SpartansMan]

If you're not going to be using the onboard AC97 Audio then you can disable it in BIOS.

Phoenix - Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility ====> Advanced ====> Onboard Device Configuration

Change the AC97 Audio setting from [Enabled] to [Disabled].

I just want install Realtek HD audio drivers because I can't change default format in sound settings.

 

[junkeymonkey]

may have to fall back and find some old dated driver for that board - heck asus don't seem to list it or any support for it anymore ?? using todays stuff may not be compatible with it anymore .

http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/AllProducts/

heres all they got on the K8N4-E deluxe [slim pickings and nothing over win-xp ]

http://www.asus.com/us/support/Download/1/20/4/1/23/

 

[SpartansMan]

may have to fall back and find some old dated driver for that board - heck asus don't seem to list it or any support for it anymore ?? using todays stuff may not be compatible with it anymore .

http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/AllProducts/

heres all they got on the K8N4-E deluxe [slim pickings and nothing over win-xp ]

http://www.asus.com/us/support/Download/1/20/4/1/23/

My OS is : Windows 8.1 Pro 32bit not Win:XP 🙁.

 

[junkeymonkey]

as you can see windows 8 or 8.1 or 7 or vista is not shown as supported from that asus link for that old board ... so anything you use that's not on the supported os list is all at your own risk anyway, no guarantees out side of that ..

 

[SpartansMan]

as you can see windows 8 or 8.1 or 7 or vista is not shown as supported from that asus link for that old board ... so anything you use that's not on the supported os list is all at your own risk anyway, no guarantees out side of that ..

Oh, sorry my motherboard is K8N4-E SE.

 

[junkeymonkey]

I'm suer its from the same time line and same support anyway

http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=1&s=20&m=K8N4-E SE&os=&hashedid=TBx7PakpparxrK89

heck when you click on the specifications tab it don't take you to the board I guess your lucky they still give any kind of support page it seems

 

[ko888]

You'll have to delete the registry entry for the Realtek driver.

It should be one of the entries under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\HDAUDIO

 

[junkeymonkey]

seeing you use windows 8 did you look at anything like this to disable ??

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2165451/dont-windows-windows-automatically-download-device-drivers-icons.html

http://www.eightforums.com/graphic-cards/33826-stop-windows-8-1-installing-specific-driver.html

 

[SpartansMan]

seeing you use windows 8 did you look at anything like this to disable ??

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2165451/dont-windows-windows-automatically-download-device-drivers-icons.html

http://www.eightforums.com/graphic-cards/33826-stop-windows-8-1-installing-specific-driver.html

I tried 1st method but that not worked. I don't how to turn off auto-updating realtek drivers.

 

[junkeymonkey]

I don't use windows 8 or 8.1 [thank goodness] but I just recalled that deal with them I guess Microsoft knows better then the end user and trys to override ? that's how it looks .. I read where guys installed there drivers and booted just to find windows changed that stuff ??

anyway it was something for you to look at on this deal ?? I hate to think how win 10 going to be . there way or no way ??

anyway that's how I see it

 

[SpartansMan]

I don't use windows 8 or 8.1 [thank goodness] but I just recalled that deal with them I guess Microsoft knows better then the end user and trys to override ? that's how it looks .. I read where guys installed there drivers and booted just to find windows changed that stuff ??

anyway it was something for you to look at on this deal ?? I hate to think how win 10 going to be . there way or no way ??

anyway that's how I see it

I just want install Realtek HD drivers but Realtek AC'97 don't let my do this. Realtek HD drivers I need for Dead Rising 2 lag fix.

 

[junkeymonkey]

how bout this ??

http://www.eightforums.com/sound-audio/2613-realtek-ac97-audio-driver-not-hd-driver.html