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Message: [QUOTE="Derek Harvey, post: 12299250"] Hi Folks, The computer (Medion Multimedia PC MD8833) has Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I have installed a newly-bought XP Pro in a separate partition as a dual boot setup. All in XP is now working after several trials and tribulations EXCEPT the sound. Realtek High Definition Audio is on the motherboard. Attempts to install drivers for it, from various sources including the CD supplied with the computer as 'XP Drivers', a file recommended by DriverDetective and one from Realtek site, fail towards the end of the installation process with a cryptic 'failed' message. One error code announced is 0xE0000227 Does anyone know what this means and what has generated it? I wonder if anyone else has encountered this sort of problem with sound in a dual boot? The Vista installation partition is Hidden and Vista has not been booted at all when I try these installations. The Installshield runs for quite a long time, extracting many files and it is almost at the end of a progress bar when it fails. This seems to imply that it thinks it is installing to the correct hardware?? It may be relevant that, if I go into Device Manager (where a yellow ! is shown against this item) and ask Windows to reinstall the driver, nothing at all happens when that button is clicked. Also 'uninstall' does not work - something says 'device may be needed to boot up' which is surely ridiculous!? Any ideas on how I proceed to get sound working? TIA Derek [/QUOTE]

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