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Unable to find sound drivers for home server

Poulsonator

Poulsonator

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This is driving me insane. Everything works perfectly except for the sound. I've grabbed the drivers from Foxconn's site:

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those didn't work (although none are specifically named to work for WHS, they only say 32 or 64 bit, so they don't not say it either. Um...)

I read as much as I could find about this specific problem, and found out that maybe the Realtek drivers would work:

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those didn't work either.

In the Device Manager, it shows up as 'Unknown device'. If you try to install a driver manually, it comes back saying 'Cannot Install this Hardware'. If you try to install a driver from an executable, the executable aborts saying the device isn't there.

I would normally just say 'OK, there's no WHS driver (although I've not seen anything saying Win2003/WHS doesn't work) so I'll find something third-party'.

Well, I tried that as well. I have a PPA 1455 external sound device. It worked beautifully, right out of the box, on a Win2003 Server machine at work. It doesn't even register on my WHS when plugged in (though the device lights up, so it's getting power).

An external hard drive works perfectly fine, though.

I simply don't get it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
You should be looking for drivers that support Server 2003, 32-bit. However, it's likely that XP, 32-bit drivers would work.

Any particular reason why you need sound for your WHS server? I don't even bother installing sound drivers on mine.
 
I agree.... Does your server talk to you? Sound is not needed. I just disable these type of devices as they are useless on a server anyway. No video, No keyboard, No mouse, and No sound. It just sits alone doing its server thing keeping me safe and storing my data.

pcgeek11
 
For the time being, my server is also attached to my TV. On occasion, I like to stream music from it or stream MLB.TV. Nothing fancy, but both require sound, and until I can get my real HTPC, this will have to do.

Unless I can't get sound working, which is looking more and more like a real possibility with WHS.
 
Yes, that service is enabled. I stopped and re-started just in case, but nada.

I had XP on this machine before installing WHS. Everything worked perfectly in XP. Then again, there are specific XP drivers. I just don't understand the other sound device issue, though. Why wouldn't it even show up the device manager (or work at all?)? Is it also tied to the motherboard sound problem?

Very frustrating.
 
as someone said above, try xp or server 2003 drivers. I know *most* xp drivers work on my w2k3 server, as there are no drivers for w2k3 for my server's motherboard.
 
Originally posted by: Poulsonator
That didn't help either, unfortunately.
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The only thing I have left would be to ask have you checked to see if you have put in all the other drivers? I can remember instances where it seemed like Windows had a built in drivers for some devices, yet until I put in the actual mobo's or chip makers drivers, not all the other devices would work.
I guess I am wondering if you put the nforce drivers in, or did windows just put in the defalut drivers?

btw I noticed the Foxconn site has old drivers, like from 2006 and 2005.
 
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