winXPx64 - sound driver question.

[Padilla]

Hello, thank you for taking the time to view my post 🙂 . Installed
(Build 3790 Service Pack 1, v,1433) Last night. On a compaq R3370US Laptop.
Under the manufacturers specifications it says "Digital Audio" my soundcard.
"real descriptive" I know.. I popped in my driver recovery cd (hoping) these 32-bit Drivers would work.Nope. And The driver manufacturer is "Soundmax".

I havent pinpointed the model number. I am wondering if there is any resources someone
could point me to ? relate to my situation, tell me how you fixed it ?

planetamd64 is down due to a powersurge and have forum data loss :roll:
64bitstuff is just starting out, and doesnt seem to have much : tried a soundmax on their site. Doesnt work. Please Help?



::Useful Information For Geforce Users Maybe::
I noticed performance (after install) while dragging windows, was horribly slow.
Went to nvidias website, and grabbed the 64-bit extension drivers, no change.

Scrolled through microsofts drivers that were already loaded onto my system from the disk, I selected "Geforce 4 MX440 (microsoft corporation)" Restarted.
bam! nice.

It was my first choice since my laptop has a Geforce 4 Go Graphics GPU. Let me know what you guys think.

 

[Padilla]

Could someone please answer ??

 

[n0cmonkey]

Look in the XP 64 driver thread.
Email compaq and ask them for the drivers.

 

[mastertech01]

Soundmax has the worst support I think of all the sound card manufacturers for drivers. They specifically state that they do not develop drivers for onboard sound, and that you must see the manufacturer of the motherboard.

There are some Soundmax drivers released from certain manufacturers but its hit and miss, and less compatible with the RC1 and RC2 XP because of the driver decoration requirement.

I ended up having to switch to SB Live 5.1 to get sound for my system. NONE of the Soundmax drivers around the net would work on the ASUS NCCH-DL