Msi x870e tomahawk wifi Realtek Audio Console wont load

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I have installed all the drivers for this board. I installed the realtek audio drivers as well via the website and it does not install the required realtek universal audio service that is required for the realtek audio console to work. I consistently get the can not connect to rpc service error when launching the console. I have even done a ddu uninstall of all the drivers and reinstalled them, I have even tried a manual driver install. nothing seems to work. I have audio but can't use the console.
 
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Can you try enabling this?
 
Like I said I dont have the service even showing up in the services.msc tab. This also does not show up in task manager. I have reinstalled the drivers from the website, done a repair and reset on the console and still wont work. I have even uninstalled the device in device manager and tried a manual install of the drivers. I have run the setup.exe file from support website driver download as admin and nothing. I have done a ddu uninstall of the drivers and then tried reinstalling them as well. I have audio, I just can not get the console to load and the service is missing entirely, If i try to register the service via dism after finding the repository it gives me error 5 access is denied.
 
I got it working by registering the service in powershell. Now i can load the console, but now i get the realtek audio console doesn't support for this machine error. i have installed drivers from msi website for my mag x870e tomahawk wifi board. this is getting really annoying and frustrating now.
 
Yeah it probably added a new sound device, something audio console doesn't like.
I can only suggest to manually flush out any sound driver from any device you have installed/connected. In settings/apps/installed apps the same, audio console included. In device manager you have to check for any sound device that's left, the nvidia sound device from the videocard never gave me any problems with audio console so you could leave that or simply disable if you have it.
It's also worth a try to disconnect your internet before rebooting, when windows loads it will detect your sound device but can't get any driver online for it to install. Then in windows you can install the realtek drivers for your board. then reconnect internet and download audio console from the ms store.
 
I had to register the rtkaudservice64.exe myself via powershell to get the service to show back up. i googled how to do it. I then had to manually install the realtek audio in device manager by doing have disk and finding the driver that i downloaded from msi website and it came up as realtek audio instead of generic usb audio. once i did all this the console opens and detects when peripherals are plugged into the audio jacks.
 
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