manta222 wrote:
> Unfortunatly Vista was not up to scratch so I went back to XP I have
> everything but my audio drivers. I have a HP pavillion Desktop and Hp have no
> drivers for Win XP. I have tried a few methods given to me and the latest is
> to install realtek hd audio driver but an error comes up saying bus driver
> needs to be installed first.
> The audio is on board but xp tells me there is no audio device.
> Does anybody have any sugestions? If all else fails would it be better for
> me to buy a audio card and install that or would i get the same error?
> Thanks
The "bus driver" is called UAA from Microsoft. Before SP3, a user
might look for KB888111, as it had a release of UAA on it. Also,
various web sites have copies of UAA for download. HP.com, for example,
has a version. This version is even bigger than the first one I got.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/g...tem=ob-45977-2
With SP3 installed, apparently there can still be some issues. I
cannot really tell, from the procedure offered, what is the
underlying problem. Whether it is the version of UAA in SP3 that
is a problem, or not. The procedure I found, suggests a particular
order of removal of what you've done so far, followed by just
using the RealTek installer. The ReakTek installer has, in
the past, had a minimal set of files from KB888111. The real
KB888111 has about 25 languages supported in the download, making
it 25 times bigger than the basic files. The thing RealTek bundles
with their installer, might be just the English version of the files.
http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.co...a?dmode=source
It is not much of an answer, but it may give you some things to
play with.
Paul