After win 8 pro install, cannot use sound volumn on keyboard on Asus U56

look for updates,download updates and install.
reboot .you can also in device manager look for drivers on the internet
or on your pc.

Windows 8 has updated drivers as much as you would get from Asus built into win 8.

Go to devise MGR, if windows 8 did not load drivers, you will see a flag.

See what hardware did not load a driver and then use the win 7 driver.

You don't do anything to make a win 7 driver work, if the driver is newer, and signed it will install, if it's older then the driver windows installed, it won't install. If you see a flag and windows did not install a driver, then try the win 7 driver, or go to the MFG of the hardware and see if there is a win 8 driver.

You can also run windows update, if win update see's a newer driver out it might pick it up and give you a install option.


Now, your chipset, and most hardware has windows 8 drivers out.

The drivers are the biggest problem, the biggest problem for you is the BIOS was not set for windows 8.

So you could find even with the best drivers, win 8 slower or has bugs more then win 7 will have.

Me, I would bench test all the hardware with win 7, then with win 8 and see which one is better.

Can be a lot of things, can be your hard drive.

Your PC is not set to run win 8, yes people put it on older machines, but some don't realize it's not running properly.

Windows 8 has a call for a CPU that has- PAE, NX, and SSE2 features, if the CPU does not have these you will have problems.

Most all motherboards that now support win 8, have had BIOS updates for the kernel of win 8. Only the newest one's out are set to support win 8, but they had BIOS made for it.

Your system has no BIOS updates at all.

There is a utility that will check your CPU to see if win 8 will run on the system, but you need have the OS working, like win 7.

Read this page, and try and run this utility. It would be best for you to reinstall win 7 and run it.

The only reason win 8 will work better is if it is on a system that was made to run it.


Here is the link to read and the test.

http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-check-if-your-processor-cpu-supports-windows-8/

Hello try the asus homepage here:

http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=M2N-MX&p=1&s=24

The vista drivers should work, when you install windows 7 again.
The files has to be unziped, before you install the driver.
But that does not mean the drivers will work on win 8.

Here are the other models of the mainboard:

http://support.asus.com/Download/ModelList.aspx?SLanguage=en&keyword=M2N-MX&type=1

Consider to buy a new mainboard, that supports win 8.

A new mainboard cost around 100 dollars, and the cpu aswell.
You maybe have to buy new ram, because all new mainboards have ddr3 ram.

Good luck

Try installing the drivers instead. Choose OS. Download by choosing Global. Unzip and run setup.
This might not work if you upgraded to Win 7 or 8.
http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=P5VDC-X&p=1&os=

It's a commom problem when you upgrade to a new OS, Win 8. You have to find the Win 8 drivers. Is that the only thing? In Device Manager, search for hardware changes, locate Win 8 drivers at ASUS website.

You can sometimes you can use Win 7 drivers for the audio, found on the HP website: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?os=4062&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=3837660#N231 ,for your onexant High-Definition SmartAudio 221 . That said, you may have to change the compatibility of the driver to WINdows 8, you did not say 32 or 64, and install it to your audio device. Have you notices other devices in Device Manager that are not working properly? I had a similar situation, Audio, Modem, Card Reader, when I upgraded an old (2005) Gateway MX6421 to Win 7 pro N 64 I had to locate the drivers, (from a HP site), change a few lines of code in the drivers and change compatibility to Win 7.

There have been quite a few issues with Windows 7 compatabilty with software from prior versions. You have VIA P4M890 and VT8327 chipsets, Via Unichrome Pro graphics and Realtek ALC660 sound. Asus does not show support for Windows 7 and your board byt, in some instances, Vista will work. Tjis is Asus's link:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5VD2MX_SE/#download
You can try your sound here:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/
The Unichrome Pro doesn't show anY support passed Win XP. You do have a PCIe x 16 slot so, if you can't live without Windows 7, a graphics card with windows 7 support is an option. With the Radeon HD cards, you can get sound and audio.

Cnet shows a driver compatible with 2000. Here's a link to the page. Best of luck.
Greg

http://download.cnet.com/ASUS-Xonar-D2-Audio-Device/3000-2110_4-209112.html

Hello,

Yes you will need to re install the audio driver. If you do not
have the original cd for the motherboard, here is a link to the
Audio Driver that you will need.

Download Link:
http://www.driverstock.com/ASUS-P5S800-VM-driver-download/6-9-10176-81148/index.html

Let me no if i can be of anymore assistance.