Have you tried the audio troubleshooting steps on the Gigabyte support page?
Do you have Windows Service Pack 2 installed?
If yes, post the exact model that you have of the 945, there are 9 model versions and revisions.
A troubleshooting example for the GA-945GCM-S2 (if that is what you have) is located
here.
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