Audio drivers help

[manta222]

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

 

[Paul]

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/...ex?cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&softwareitem=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.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte/msg/5cb7db74ebf4ad7a?dmode=source

It is not much of an answer, but it may give you some things to
play with.

Paul

 

[Mick Murphy]

If HP hasn't a driver for it, that is about it.
Try below for peace of mind, you never know!
Click Start>Right-click My Computer>Properties>Hardware>Device Manager.

Right-click on the (?) Sound there>Properties> see if it can find a suitable
Driver on the Net.

If not, go with your other idea; grab an AOpen, etc PCI Sound Card for about
$20

 

[manta222]

Thanks Mick,
I figured it might be the best way to go but its good to have someone
confirm my suspisions. I will keep an eye on the thread because it seems more
people are experiencing the same problem. There is no options to search for
drivers online. The only drivers in the sound section is legacy audio
drivers. If I try to update them it searches the pc or slected files but
finds nothing even though i have downloaded about 20 different audio drivers
to choose from. HP are not helpfull in the slightest.

 

[Mick Murphy]

I've always found Audio drivers a pain to find, when they are onboard. If it
was an XP reinstall it would be simple. They would be at HP, or you would
have a CD for the Motherboard Drivers.
Normally in Device manager, you can click a radio button to allow net search
this one time, instead of looking in the computer HD, or CD RoM

 

[manta222]

One lst go and eureka. This forum has a number of solutions but only one
worked for me and it was by tepprawo

http://forums.firingsquad.com/firingsquad/board/message?board.id=software&thread.id=4373
If anybody else has this issue don't give in just try a few of the solutions
until one works for you.