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Realtek/Intel NIC transfer speed

I have just purchased a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 motherboard, and it has dual Realtek RTL8111D gigabit LAN ports. I also have an Intel PRO/1000 MT PCI gigabit network card lying around from an old …
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How to get headphones and speakers working at the same time?

I have a Gigabyte P55-UD3 motherboard which comes with a Realtek sound card and audio header for the front panel. My headset is permanently connected to the front panel (mic in, headphones in) and I …
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How would you diagnose an integrated network card that doesn’t show up on the device list?

I've been setting up a server based around a Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R motherboard (G33, PCH9R with integrated Realtek 811B network device. I've enabled it in the BIOS, but it doesn't show up in the …
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Is the Realtek network driver on Windows Update fixed yet?

Months ago i was experiencing problems with my networking, and was hoping the updated Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20) driver available from Microsoft on …
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Realtek HD Audio 5.1 on Windows 7

I have problem with Realtek 5.1 driver for Windows 7 x64. I've installed newest drivers for Realtek HD Audio, but 5.1 still doesn't work, the only thing that works is front stereo. However, when I …
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How to work around Realtek HD Audion Manager’s “Defaut Device” setting?

I've got my headphones plugged into the back panel of my mobo, and SPDIF audio out. Realtek HD Audio Manager will only let me to select 1 Default Device - that means every time i need to swap between …
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Output media player sound to skype partner in Windows7

Hello everybody! I am having trouble setting up Windows 7 sound settings so that I can output the music I am listening, to the people I am talking with. Be it through Sykpe, TeamSpeak or other VoIP …
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Realtek NIC running at 100Mb/s rather than 1000Mb/s

Hi, My Realtek NIC in my Windows Home Server (essentially w2k3) box refuses to run at 1000Mb/s even if I change the driver settings from Auto Negotion to 1000Mb/s full duplex. I've installed the …
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Windows XP machine is not making ‘event’ sounds

My neighbour has a machine running XP that no longer makes Windows 'event' sounds, such as the Startup/Shutdown sounds. I've checked all the obvious things. If I go in to edit the sound scheme, I …
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How to diagnose local NIC (wired) losing packets?

My onboard Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family Gigabit Ethernet is losing packets (about 8% when pinging any other device on the LAN). There are no events in the Windows event logs relating to TCPIP/ICMP …
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Ubuntu - Get audio over optical cable

Is it possible to play audio over optical cables in Ubuntu? I've got a motherboard with Realtek ALC888 onboard audio. Ubuntu can play music/sounds just fine to my headphones or over analog cables …
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VLC blues - is there a solution?

When using the VLC media player to play DVDs both video and audio pause several times per second. This makes VLC unusable for playing DVDs. Windows Media Player works without any problems. Is …
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Realtek drivers on Linux

I just bought a Lenovo X200 and it has a Realtek wireless card. I have installed Ubuntu 9.04 on it. There are a number of suggestions online about how to get the wireless drivers for the realtek card …