Windows Media Center No Sound on Some Channels
by errr on Feb.01, 2010, under Microsoft
So my media center pc was having issues with sound. Some channels worked great, and others didnt work right at all. By this I mean that you could hear the laugh track perfect but couldnt hear the dialog at all. I am using an Asus P5Q SE/R motherboard, this board has a Realtech HD audio chipset. The sound seemed to work perfect in all the apps I tried.. VLC, Windows Media player, even the HDHomerun Quick TV app. I was stumped.. The device manager showed no unknown devices and reported all devices working correctly. As usual I went to google and tried to find a solution. I found nothing.. I decided there were not enough options in the windows control panel for my sound card so I thought I would see if Asus had a driver for this system They did… I downloaded the audio drivers from Asus here: http://support.asus.com/ you have to search for your motherboard then your OS, then go to the audio driver section. I grabbed the global file which was about 72MB worth of a zip file. Once the down load is complete you can right click the file and extract the files, browse into the directory and find the Setup file, and run through it.. Once the reboot is complete you just need to make sure the Realtech audio settings are correct for your speaker setup do the test from the audio app, and enjoy the sound not giving you problems in media center any more 
