Windows 7/8 no sound (after ubuntu dual boot)

Question

So my brother has a Asus laptop(old) which came with Vista Ult. When Win 7 was released i installed it and everything worked fine (all the drivers). Then my brother tried dual booting it Win7 and Ubuntu (might have been 10.04 or something similar). After the install everything was working fine in Ubuntu, but when he rebooted into Win 7 there was no sound coming out of the speakers (earphones and headset were working fine). In the windows sound 'Playback' settings the speakers would show up set as default, the audio levels would jump when you played a video or sound file, but no actual sound came out of the speakers.

I tried updating drivers, clean(format HDD) Win 7 install with and without the original drivers just the automatic ones that windows picked up on, on separate occasions. After all my attempts sound through the speakers wasn't working in Windows. But when i would load Ubuntu live from USB and sound would work fine.

Later i tried installing Win 8 and the same thing happened, no sound. I even tried installing the original copy of Vista and all the drivers again and the same thing would happen, everything but the speakers would work.

Any ideas to get the speakers working in Windows?

More info 1
-I would would like to add that the bios is up to date and have tried resetting all the bios setting to manufacturer default.
-As i have 2 of the laptops(my brother and I) i have also tried swapping the HDD's and the same result.
-In safe mode the sound icon has an 'X' through it, 'No audio devices are installed'. The troubleshoot results are 'One or more audio service isn't running --- Not fixed'

More info 2
-I actually got the sound working once not sure which OS Win7 i think, by just swapping the OS between Vista and Win7 few times and installing the drivers... But then i tried to do a clean install and speakers stopped working again. I was never able to replicate the results again (not exactly sure what made it work).

Solution

I have exactly the same problem with my Samsung QX410. After reinstalling Windows, then logging into Fedora, then back into Windows I discovered again the problem which was the cause of reinstalling. Fortunately I found a solution at quora and it works for me: just turn the Windows to sleep and then wake it up (at least the procedure is faster than reinstall or shutdown).

Comments

[mohsen kamrani]

What is the result in safemode?

[Ramhound]

I can tell you that the installation of another operating isn't the cause of your sound device not working

[ganesh]

Can you confirm that the sound does not work if you do this sequence? 1) Boot Ubuntu - test sound. 2) Shut down (no reboot, no sleep, no hibernate. shutdown -p). 3) Boot windows and test.

[Overmind]

In theory, a linux distr can alter BIOS settings with inb and outb and changing the IRQ can affect the sound device, but this is not something that suppose to happen (it's very unlikely, although possible).

[crbon]

Here this the only thing close to what you are talking about oi62.tinypic.com/166lq4o.jpg And it was enabled/unlocked

[mohsen kamrani]

@user2924842: which os are using now?

[crbon]

I'm using Windows 8

[mohsen kamrani]

Try this, go into control panel, chose Personalization then clicked the speaker section and chose another set of audio options then tested it. (Maybe you need to update to win8.1)

[crbon]

I'll try that later on today. Here is the original audio driver readme file pastebin.com/CGbaTvVF There might be something useful there

[mohsen kamrani]

@crbon- Please report the results.

[crbon]

So i installed Windows 8.1 and updated everything. The driver that Windows applied to speakers doesn't work. Then i went ahead and downloaded the latest version from Realtek website. After reboot sound still doesn't work as before. I then tried removing that driver and installing the one from the Asus website(in comparability 'Vista') but still nothing.

[mohsen kamrani]

@crbon- Did you try what I said about the control panel?

[crbon]

@mok- What do you mean by choosing another set of audio options? As in like HDMI out and see if the TV plays sound? I tried changing the speaker settings in speaker control panel

[mohsen kamrani]

eightforums.com/attachments/sound-audio/…

[crbon]

Yep here is what I got after installing the original driver(outdated) i58.tinypic.com/104ooyo.png

[mohsen kamrani]

@crbon- and still not working?

[crbon]

@mok- Yeah still nothing.

[crbon]

I'm still looking for a solution... Hmm I've tried your suggestion, gave it about 5 minutes without battery power after each shutdown. Still nothing, I'll try again removing the drivers and installing new manually download drivers. I still believe that Ubuntu is the key... If you still have any ideas or suggestions let me know :) @agtoever

[Because I'm a noob.]

lmao, how does this even work. any ideas of whats causing the issue?

[Mahm00d]

After digging through many sites and ideas, this simple solution was what worked for me. Thanks a lot!

[Yibo Yang]

this also fixed my audio glitch like this one

[Mehrdad]

It's working! I couldn't find any other solution for it. Thanks.

[Cute Bear]

I don't know how many times I formatted my windows just for this one. I'll hang your photo on my wall sir. You have good day!