Help with audio/sound please

[timbo2410]

Hi all, we I had no sound yesterday for some reason and it's been fine using HDMI from my Asus PG279Q for years. Checked settings to find I had lost audio control from sys tray. Could not see Nvidia control panel either ?? then couldn't find realtek drivers ?? WTF ?? reinstalled all drivers .. still no sound. Swapped monitors as well to count out monitor faults (none found). Plugged in an optical cable to mobo spdif and ran it into amp .. no sound! .. installed older 2.81 realtek driver and managed to get sound from youtube videos but if I try to play mp3's then it would just come up with no audio device connected to play this or codec error. Did a windows repair and I now have audio on every type of file (mps, flac, WMA etc) along with movies(via optical out only). But I still cannot find any options for controlling anything more than volume .. can anybody give me advice on where to go from here please to get back HDMI sound from my monitor and to get back surround sound (at least 5.1) from my mobo optical out

Win 10 x64
Mobo Asus Maximus viii Extreme (latest bios update)
GPU Asus ROG 1080ti (latest driver)
Monitor Asus ROG PG279Q
Realtek driver 2.81

Oh .. forgot to say .. I do have Asus Sonic suite installed .. it refuses to start on system start and if I manually try and start it there is the error "no compatible audio device connected" ???

 

[djisas]

Hi all, we I had no sound yesterday for some reason and it's been fine using HDMI from my Asus PG279Q for years. Checked settings to find I had lost audio control from sys tray. Could not see Nvidia control panel either ?? then couldn't find realtek drivers ?? WTF ?? reinstalled all drivers .. still no sound. Swapped monitors as well to count out monitor faults (none found). Plugged in an optical cable to mobo spdif and ran it into amp .. no sound! .. installed older 2.81 realtek driver and managed to get sound from youtube videos but if I try to play mp3's then it would just come up with no audio device connected to play this or codec error. Did a windows repair and I now have audio on every type of file (mps, flac, WMA etc) along with movies(via optical out only). But I still cannot find any options for controlling anything more than volume .. can anybody give me advice on where to go from here please to get back HDMI sound from my monitor and to get back surround sound (at least 5.1) from my mobo optical out

Win 10 x64
Mobo Asus Maximus viii Extreme (latest bios update)
GPU Asus ROG 1080ti (latest driver)
Monitor Asus ROG PG279Q
Realtek driver 2.81

Oh .. forgot to say .. I do have Asus Sonic suite installed .. it refuses to start on system start and if I manually try and start it there is the error "no compatible audio device connected" ???

It may very well be that your mobo's starting to fail...
Maybe you should consider buying a cheap, even used dedicated soundcard...
I just bought a creative 7.1 SC from ebay, it's leagues above onboard audio...

 

[timbo2410]

That's just it .. I've never, ever used the mobo soundcard at all. I used to have a Asus Essence Stx ii .. but I started having conflict issues with several games and ended up just using HDMI audio via my monitor. Something weird has happened for me to lose the ability to adjust audio and for the loss of HDMI audio as well .. all very weird ... I just dont know what to check from here to problem solve ..