Audio chip *precise* detection ??

[dan nelles]

Hi Folks!

Today I come to you all with a problem: I want to find the drivers, WIN-7 32 bit for my other laptop machine, for the AUDIO, I need to know what kind of chip is in the machine.


I know it is Realtek -- but I do not know exactly what kind of chip; example my Toshiba A500 has a Realtek ALC272 audio chip.


Is there any way to use WIN-7 to find out this info, other than telling me "HD AUDIO" ??? any HW Info type tools to extrapolate the info forcefully ?

Thanks All

[NdMk2o1o]

Originally Posted by dan nelles

Hi Folks!

Today I come to you all with a problem: I want to find the drivers, WIN-7 32 bit for my other laptop machine, for the AUDIO, I need to know what kind of chip is in the machine.


I know it is Realtek -- but I do not know exactly what kind of chip; example my Toshiba A500 has a Realtek ALC272 audio chip.


Is there any way to use WIN-7 to find out this info, other than telling me "HD AUDIO" ??? any HW Info type tools to extrapolate the info forcefully ?

Thanks All

Laptop make and model would be a start then I am 99% from that info and with a little bit of googling you will find the model of the realtek chip in it.

[Widjaja]

To shorten down your choices of which version of the model your laptop is, look on the base and there should be a sticker with the exact model number.
For example my HP Mini is a HP Mini 110
But the version is a HP Mini 110-1052tu

The chances the RealTek High Definition Audio Codecs which work with all RealTek audio integrated chips.
These will most likely work
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...Audio%20Codecs

[TheLaughingMan]

Doesn't matter as RealTek HD uses unified drivers.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads...54_7Vista.html

Basically, if you have Integrated sound from within the last 4 or 5 years, those are you drivers for Win7.

If you have a dedicated Realtek audio card or any other legacy device, you can find what you need here: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/Drivers/Realtek/

[cheesy999]

Originally Posted by TheLaughingMan

Doesn't matter as RealTek HD uses unified drivers.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads...54_7Vista.html

Basically, if you have Integrated sound from within the last 4 or 5 years, those are you drivers for Win7.

If you have a dedicated Realtek audio card or any other legacy device, you can find what you need here: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/Drivers/Realtek/

realtek themselves here -http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false although their website is really slow

[THRiLL KiLL]

Originally Posted by cheesy999

realtek themselves here -http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false although their website is really slow

slow is an understatement.

start the download, and then go to work, it may be done by the time you get home

[95Viper]

Originally Posted by dan nelles

any HW Info type tools

You can get and use the driver from Realtek like everyone has been posting, but to answer your second part:

HWinfo32
Speccy
Aida32

Others at Majorgeeks

[TheLaughingMan]

Originally Posted by cheesy999

realtek themselves here -http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false although their website is really slow

Exactly. Why would I suggestion a site who has a known slow ass server hosting the files? TPU's servers put Realtek servers to shame.

[dan nelles]

Originally Posted by 95Viper

You can get and use the driver from Realtek like everyone has been posting, but to answer your second part:

HWinfo32
Speccy
Aida32

Others at Majorgeeks

Hi,

Gee, I am not really sure how to operate these reply mechanism yet -- but anyways, wanted to thank you for the HWinfo -- it reported an ALC272 + INTEL HD Audio + a NVIDIA HD Audio !! So, can I take my pick?


I really do not know why 3 hd audios are being reported... there is a 95% chance the actual audio_chip is a REALTEK and that there is ONE HARDWARE AUDIO DEVICE and not three.

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Just FYI, if you have a fairly recent video card with HDMI output, you can run that to a receiver and get much better sound than you would from an analog-output audio chipset. Which protocols it supports depends on the card, or at least used to.

Apparently you can also do some sort passthrough, I guess from the video card to the audio chipset. Here is a thread on Toms hardware that might help.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/25...hics-card-hdmi

[TheLaughingMan]

Originally Posted by dan nelles

Hi,

Gee, I am not really sure how to operate these reply mechanism yet -- but anyways, wanted to thank you for the HWinfo -- it reported an ALC272 + INTEL HD Audio + a NVIDIA HD Audio !! So, can I take my pick?


I really do not know why 3 hd audios are being reported... there is a 95% chance the actual audio_chip is a REALTEK and that there is ONE HARDWARE AUDIO DEVICE and not three.

* see attachment(s)

Not sure about the Intel, but all modern graphics cards have built-in HD audio. This is used when you connect an HDMI cable so your computer outputs both audio and video like other HDMI sources.

Stick with using the Realtek ALC272 for your audio.

[user21]

the easiest and simple way is to install realtek software, it would install the driver along with a sound manager in located in the system tray...OPEN IT AND GO TO INFO you'll know which IC/model number you have