sound drivers going funny with winXP!

[Dragontail]

I have a 2.4ghz p4 on a gigabyte GA-8SR533P mobo based on a SiS 645 chipset. The PC is custom built. Im dual booting XP pro and win98.

Recently, i had trouble with the sound driver. The sound driver, Realtek Avance ac97 was fine, until, for no reason, it failed. The Found new hardware window came up one day when i booted up into XP telling me that a new Sound controller had been found. Opening Sounds and Audio devices in the control panel told me that no audio device was detected.

somehow, after many hours, i manged to reinstall the drivers off my cdrom provided with the mobo - only to find out the next time i booted up my PC that the drivers had failed again! In add/remove prog. it says the Avance ac97 audio drivers had been intsalled! But there is no sound drivers according to winXP! Out of interest, in 98, i have also expreinced no sound.

Im quite deperate and any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Do you have each OS on a seperate partition?

 

[Dragontail]

yep

 

[LiLithTecH]

Did you try the latest drivers from REALTEK?

Realtek ALC650 audio driver v3.45

The CORRECT installation proceedure.

For Win2000/WinME/WinXP (WDM driver)
Set up Driver/Application for first time:

Step 1: Before installing the Realtek AC'97 Drivers & Applications, press the
[Cancel] button if Windows detects the PCI Multimedia Audio device.

Step 2: Insert the ?Realtek AC'97 Drivers & Applications? CD into the CD-ROM
drive and run the setup.exe program to finish the installation.

Step 3: Click on [Next/OK/Go] to continue the procedure. If the Windows pop-ups a
?Digital Signature Not Found? message, press [Yes] to continue the
installation.

Step 4: Finally, select restarting the system and press [Finish] to complete the
installation.
The system will reload the drivers and do some adjustments in the INF file if
so required.

Update Driver/Application:
Step 1: Follow Step 2, 3, 4 described above in [Setup for first time] to complete the
procedures.

Remove Driver/Application:
Step 1: Go to Start\Settings\Control Panel.
Step 2: Select [Add/Remove Programs] icon.
Step 3: Select ?Realtek AC'97 Drivers and Applications? and press
[Change/Remove] button.
Step 4: Click on [Next/OK/Go] to finish the uninstallation.
Step 5: At the end of the procedure, select restarting the system and press [Finish] to
complete the uninstallation.

For Win98 Gold (First Edition)/Win98SE
Set up Driver/Application for first time:

Update Driver/Application:
The same procedures in Win2000/WinME/WinXP.
Remove Driver/Application:

The same procedure in Win2000/WinME/WinXP.

 

[Dragontail]

The drivers from the internet solved the problem. i think it was a driver fault with winXP. thanks for ur help!