Sound and ethernet drivers for MSI K8T Neo2-F motherboard?

[EvilHorace]

I've got a new mobo, cpu (AMD 64 3500+), memory and everything's fine EXCEPT that I'm presently unable to find/install correct, functional drivers for its onboard sound and ethernet.
The manual isn't specific on this and the cd-rom that came with my mobo doesn't have the correct drivers.
I went to MSIs site, found the board where it lists the correct devices:

Audio

* 8 channels software audio codec RealTek ALC850
* Compliance with AC97 v2.3 Spec.
* Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.

LAN

* Realtek® 8110S Dual layout
* Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip.
* Supports 10, 100Mb/s and 1000Mb/s

.yet I'm still unable to get drivers working for either. When I found and tryed to install the correct drivers for the RealTek sound, I got a warning:

"Warning, need Microsoft bus driver installed before installing sound drivers."

Anyone know exactly what THAT means? No other driver issues seen in device manager besides sound and ethernet controllers.

Everything else is A-OK.
The ethernet card isn't a big deal as my older PCI nic works but I would like sound w/o needing to buy another sound card (my old SB Live isn't ideal anymore, especially with Win XP).

Anyone here have a new MSI motherboard and run into this?

Here's the mobo (not where I bought it from):http://www.ncix.com/products/i...&manufacture=MicroStar

 

[Ike0069]

Well I just bought a MSI Neo2 Platinum 939. I had no sound, then I installed the drivers, and it worked great (until the MC/CPU died....but that's a different story).
Anyways, I know our boards are different, but the on board sound is the exact same.
Problem is that your board is Via chipset and mine is NF3. I guess this doesn't relly help you, but at least I'll bump it to the top.

 

[EvilHorace]

My book doesn't mention it but might I need to install the Via chipset 4 in 1 drivers for that to work?

I can get them from MSIs site here:
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/...ail.php?UID=608&kind=1