AV-710 driver install

[GR22]

I recieved some good suggestions the other day, but to no avail. I'm trying to install a chaintech sound card. Windows sees and recognizes the card. I click on the new hardware wizard to load drivers. I've tried several drivers including letting windows go to the update site. I got the v143 drivers from via per suggestions and tried them last. It seems it doesn't matter what drivers I try to load, each time I get a message "data is invalid" at the end of the driver install. When I run setup from the driver download package, I get a message "driver failed to load" (or something like that). I suspect there's something going on in windows that's preventing me from loading drivers for this card. I've never had this card working at all, at this point. I did try disabling the onboard sound in BIOS, but it didn't make any difference. I recall that when I first build this system a few years ago, I tried to instal my SBL-Value, but could not get that working so just gave up on it. I'm planning on a new system in late summer and I'm close to just giving up on this and waiting for a fresh windows install.

Any last thoughts?

Thanks

 

[Baked]

Either you didn't disable the onboard sound or your WinXP is messed up. I've installed AV-710 on a number of systems, including mine, using VIA 143D driver w/o a problem. You have to run the setup file inside the driver folder.

 

[GR22]

I did run setup from within the driver folder. When I do so, at the end of the install I get the message "Envy 24F driver may not install correct!" After this and after reboot, windows recognizes the card, but when I use the windows installer and point to the 143d drivers, after that install I get the message "data is invalid". I've also tried disabling the onboard sound from within BIOS. It didn't make any difference. It's interesting to me that whatever I do and what ever drivers I try, I keep getting those same 2 messages.

 

[Gurck]

Try uninstalling the drivers, rebooting to safe mode without networkding, and installing the 1.43 drivers while in safe mode - that's how I had to do it. You say you had problems installing a SB card a few years ago - have you reinstalled windows since then? I wouldn't bother with fiddling with onboard sound in bios, just disable it in device manager.

 

[GR22]

I uninstalled using the uninstaller in the driver package, rebooted, disabled on board sound, and installed 143d drivers from safe mode. Still get the same driver may not install correct message. Upon windows detecting the card on boot up, I get the same data is invalid message when trying to install drivers from the found new hardware wizard.

I haven't reinstalled windows since the origional build 2+ years ago, except to install security updates and SP2.

In device manager, there are several entries under sound video and game controllers:
- Audio Codecs
- Legacy Audio Drivers
- Legacy Video Capture Devices
- Media Control devices
- MPU-401 Compatable MIDI devices
- Standard Game Port
- Video Codecs
Which one disables the onboard sound?

Finally, I just noticed the AV-710 card currently shows up under Other in device manager as a Multimedia Video Controller. Does windows think this is a video card and is therefore rejecting the sound card drivers?

 

[erikistired]

onboard sound is disabled in the bios.

 

[Gurck]

After 2+ years without a reinstall, you're probably getting all sorts of bugs & glitches with windows, I start getting them after ~6 months, though granted I use my pc a lot. If you're up to it, a reinstall would probably help out in many ways, the sound card being just one. If not, have you tried a different pci slot? Probably grasping at straws, but it wouldn't take much time or effort to give it a shot. Is the PC a prebuilt? They often have modifications made to the windows install they ship with, seemingly just to stymie people attempting upgrades/maintenance.

 

[GR22]

I built this one myself. I'm planning on building a new machine late summer, early fall. I guess I may wait until then. I use this machine for gaming, but it's a family machine too, so there's a ton of software on it. There's a lot to install if I start fresh. I'm starting to think you're right, though. Alot's gone onto this machine in the last 2 years. One thing I've thought about is having 2 hard drives, one just for me and gaming. Both have an operating system, but I can keep one "clean". How hard would it be to set up 2 drives? In other words, can I easily designate which drive to boot to at start up if there are 2?

 

[Gurck]

It shouldn't be hard to switch the boot sequence in the bios to go between two drives for booting. If nothing else, a clean install on the second drive could tell you whether it's your windows install or not. It may just be the card.