Via Audio Deck Driver Windows 8
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I'm using an ASROCK H61M-HVS with VIA HD onboard audio. Noticed that the default drivers windows installs for it are completely fucked. Enhancements don't work at all, and it keeps defaulting to headphones (front jack) even when you only have speakers plugged in.To fix;.
Right click your start button, click system, and then go to advanced system settings. Go to hardware tab and go to device installation settings. Click no, then click Never install device software, then click okay. Open Device Manager.
Go under the sound field, select VIA HD Audio, and uninstall the driver, then restart your computer. Go to - download the.diagcab file. (Windows 10 has removed the ability to blacklist updates without using this file). Go through the steps and choose to ignore the VIA HD Audio update that is queued up.Congratulations, your sound drivers now work properly.Update for Windows 10 Threshold - 15NOV15. Open device manager. Go under Sound, Video, and Game Controllers.
Open VIA HD Audio, click uninstall. Click action, scan for new hardware changes. Wait for VIA HD audio to show up again.
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Open VIA HD Audio, go to second tab. Rollback drivers.
Open wushowhide. Blacklist VIA HD Audio update. I could not get this to work for the life of me.
Worked on it for at least 45 minutes with rollbacks, uninstalls, reinstalls, etc.What DID work was changing the entire thing to High Definition Audio Device.Go into Device Manager Sound, Video, and Game ControllersSelect the VIA HD Audio entry, right click, select 'Update Driver Software'Choose 'Browse my computer for driver software'Choose 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'Select 'High Definition Audio Device', reboot and everything should work again if nothing else worked. Dude, thank you so much for sharing this!! I have an Asus G75VW laptop with the VIA HD chipset.
It experiences similar problems to what you describe: audio always coming out the speakers no matter what. This driver didn't fix that exactly, but the HD Vdeck application will run now (would not launch before) and I was able to mute the speakers, and my headphones work properly. I never used the speakers anyway, so this is a great improvement for me. Thank you!!!EDIT - Sorry to partially hijack your thread with an only-partially related issue. Here is an update for anyone who finds this while searching for help. I still ended up having problems with this driver, but your tip about uwshowhide.diagcab is money!!!My fix for G75VW laptop that seems to be (mostly) working:.
Uninstall VIA drivers, tell Windows to delete driver files too. Completely uninstalled EVERYTHING having to do with VIA audio. Manually deleted every driver file from everywhere. (Required booting to safe mode for a couple of files).
Reboot - Windows detects the audio as 'High Definition Audio Device'. Use wushowhide.diagcab to disable VIA Windows Update installation. If Windows Update already installed the VIA driver, manually roll it back using the device manager.The speakers don't sound quite right, I don't think the built-in sub-woofer is working, but the headphones sound great, and the laptop automatically switches between headphones and speakers when I plug/unplug the headphones.Come on, VIA - get us a real driver!!. My SOLUTIONI installed the latest Windows 8.1 drivers from year 2012.
No more disabling enhancements message and the equalizer works perfectly.Also I can unify output for speakers and headphones, which makes it less complicated to choose sound-output destination (using the VIA HD Audio Deck settings - use the advanced options with the screw driver symbol).The following things have to be considered:.look above point 2 (and following) of AFEVIS fix proposal. The settings influence the ability to install drivers at all and whether windows decides to update them on non-individual measures - you might need to rollback drivers in case windows eruates to have a newer better suited driver (which possibly doesn't work too). Possibly disabling Windows Update driver updates here prevents installation of newer defective drivers.AFEVIS mentioned the tool in point 6 to possibly successful ignore such drivers. In case this doesn't work you still have to rollback unwanted newer drivers.The driver names are:'VIA High Definition Audio' - working driver from 2012 (windows 8.1) 6.0.10.1200'VIA HD Audio' - enhancement error, standard after windows installation 6.0.11.800'VIA HD Audio(Win10)' - newer driver from Windows Update not working 6.0.11.1000'High Definition Audio' - the generic Microsoft HD driver has no equalizer 10.0.4.Uninstall non-working drivers (check to delete source too).
After the last driver the system will switch to the MS generic HD driver (the source of which you cannot delete), Then install the 8.1 driver and set to disable windows updates for drivers. Just signed up because the download link seems to be missing least for me and other links slightly confusing so to save others getting it from shady sources here is direct download link from VIATo get this link yourself go to the following pageand do the following1. Windows2.Windows 8/8.13.Audio4.VIA Vinyl HD Audio.easy as pie.Also big thanks to OP, I originally used this page 2 months ago but I just just reinstalled and I'd lost the driver package. Hopefully here it is to stay.
6.0.10.1200My device manager shows I am currently running VIA driver V.6.0.10.1200 not a Microsoft one?? in 'Sound Video & Game Controllers', and certainly when I installed the driver package I saw my audio devices all updating in the taskbar exactly same as it would in Win7 or 8.Are you sure that the VIA drivers are not for doing something like instructing the chipset / subsystem on how to operate, and that the VIA drivers are not for the chipset controller itself? I'd assume the via drivers either instruct or set perimeters (or something like this) for the windows drivers to work with their full features due to the fact I have both loaded.? I'm not very technical so I don't really know exactly how it all works.I do however know 100% that non-Windows 10 specific drivers are (at least in my circumstances) OK when attempting to load (some might fail. I don't know). You ask how do I know? Well because I am using my old as hell netgear WG111 usb wifi adapter with these exact drivers posted up in 2012 when Win10 was just a glint in old billy goat gates eyes These are made for Win7 and had to be installed manually as there were no native drivers and none on win update.
Via Hd Audio Deck Driver V.10.1200a Windows 8
So couple that with the fact I have version 6.0.10.1200 from of the VIA drivers showing right now in my device manager under 'sound video game controllers' well I'd safely say they load and work fine. (If you want a screenshot just let me know)Anyways, I do kinda need the vdeck installed and working since I commonly swap between having 5.1 and having 'independent headphones' so its nice to have it all 100%. And with those drivers you originally posted everything works beautifully.Once again, weather or not I need the drivers, thanks your your help mate.