Need XP sound drivers for a computer originally designed for Vista

I

Industrial One

Got a new comp with Vista pre-installed. Uninstalled Vista. Installed
XP on another partition. No sound on new comp.

Mobo details:

[ Motherboard ]

Motherboard Properties:
Manufacturer Acer
Product F672CR
Version R01-A3

Chipset Properties:
Motherboard Chipset SiS 672
Memory Timings 5-5-5-15 (CL-RCD-RP-
RAS)

Tried finding drivers for my product below.

http://snipurl.com/226oj

Video drivers worked great, but the 25 MB Realtek Audio driver failed.
It appeared to install correctly but there was still no sound device
detected in the device manager.

What's a guy to do?

Thanks in advance.
 
S

sgopus

I looked in your list, couldn't find your pc with the info you gave, need
more detail.
ie is this a decktop, if so whats the model name?

Also with Realtek sound, there are usually two audio drivers, rather large
files, make sure you installed them both
 
I

Industrial One

I looked in your list, couldn't find your pc with the info you gave, need
more detail.
ie is this a decktop, if so whats the model name?

Yes, it's a desktop. See the desktop interface info below
Also with Realtek sound, there are usually two audio drivers, rather large
files, make sure you installed them both

I only see one for Windows XP on that list. If it consists of 2 audio
drivers, I think they're included in that huge pack. I could be wrong.

DMI:
DMI BIOS Vendor Phoenix
Technologies, LTD
DMI BIOS Version R01-A3
DMI System Manufacturer Acer
DMI System Product Aspire M1610
DMI System Version R01-A3
DMI System Serial Number PTSA00X0267390D4492701
DMI System UUID
001C2533-10212007-09270912-20000000
DMI Motherboard Manufacturer Acer
DMI Motherboard Product F672CR
DMI Motherboard Version R01-A3
DMI Motherboard Serial Number 04QR73933899
DMI Chassis Manufacturer Acer
DMI Total / Free Memory Sockets 2 / 0

That better?
 
S

smlunatick

XP drivers herehttp://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/desktop/aspire_m1610.html#driver










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It is more likely that the Realtec HD sound card drivers will not
install correctly. Look for the Microsoft Universal Audio
Architecture (UAA) driver and install this first.
 
I

Industrial One

My desktop model is AM1610-B1210A.

XP drivers herehttp://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/desktop/aspire_m1610.html#driver

AUDIO.ZIP, failed. Even with the .NET Framework installed.

It is more likely that the Realtec HD sound card drivers will not
install correctly. Look for the Microsoft Universal Audio
Architecture (UAA) driver and install this first.

I could only find 2 seperate, outdated versions, Jan and September
2006 respectively. Neither of 'em changed anything. Is there a place
where I could find a more up-to-date version?

I also tried visitting DriversPlanet.com (http://www.driversplanet.com/
device.php?id=121814) and the SoundMax package failed too.
 
S

sgopus

Then I guess you may have to go back to VISTA, as you may not be able to get
drivers for your hardware, guess it would have been better to have checked
this out before you removed vista.
 
I

Industrial One

Then I guess you may have to go back to VISTA, as you may not be able to get
drivers for your hardware, guess it would have been better to have checked
this out before you removed vista.

I'm not going back to that piece of shit. A driver is software that
lets the OS know the piece of hardware present and how it works...
there MUST be one for XP. I dunno why the hell they fail to install.
 
B

Big Al

Industrial said:
I'm not going back to that piece of shit. A driver is software that
lets the OS know the piece of hardware present and how it works...
there MUST be one for XP. I dunno why the hell they fail to install.

Do you have good specs on the card? With Vista running were you able to
get specifics on the hardware? I take it that Vista drivers worked
right? If not then at least load it to get the details on the driver /
hardware. It might lead you to better results. Good luck.
 
I

Industrial One

Do you have good specs on the card? With Vista running were you able to
get specifics on the hardware? I take it that Vista drivers worked
right? If not then at least load it to get the details on the driver /
hardware. It might lead you to better results. Good luck.

Sound worked fine on Vista. I believe I conducted a summarized report
while I still had access to Vista, but dunno where it is ATM. I can't
access Vista now, I removed it.
 
S

smlunatick

Sound worked fine on Vista. I believe I conducted a summarized report
while I still had access to Vista, but dunno where it is ATM. I can't
access Vista now, I removed it.

Not every hardware manufacturer will create drivers of both XP and
Vista. With MS pushing Vista, the manuafcturer will concentrate on
Vista drivers.
 
I

Industrial One

Update: I installed Ubuntu like Holz suggested. No sound, still. And I
don't see "Sound" under administritive preferences so I assume it
didn't detect the soundcard. Weirdly, I can now log into the Vista
partition but I get the same error message as I did when I installed
XP: "BadDirectDriver#####, make sure you installed proper drivers or
select another one."

I'm utterly confused now. Sound worked fine on Vista, I installed XP
(didn't really uninstall Vista but couldn't boot to it anymore) and no
sound on XP. I install Ubuntu and that somehow fixes the hal.dll
corruptibility problem with the Vista bootup and now I have the same
problem on Vista... a completely seperate partition that I didn't
touch.

M$ is seriously ****ed up.
 
I

Industrial One

****in' A! Problem solved, no thanks to you mofos. Apparently, SOMEHOW
my BIOS was reset when I reinstalled XP on both the partitions which
disabled sound. I re-enabled it and sound finally worked.
 

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