Realtek ac'97 problems

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I have a new computer that crashes when running a game (catz 4) and the crash seems to be related to the onboard sound (Realtek ac'97). I found a knowledge base article that referenced random sound related crashes to obsolete drivers for the ac'97 and the solution was to upgrade the drivers via Windows Update. Unfortunately Windows Update does not put the required update (833846) into the update list when I run it, even though my installed drivers are older than the drivers that would be installed by the update.

I have found more current drivers for this device in a couple of places and installed them with no success

Does anybody know anyway to manually choose a specific windows update and get it to download and install. I would really like to try installing 833846 and seeing if that fixes the problem

thanks in advance

 

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I have a new computer that crashes when running a game (catz 4) and the

crash seems to be related to the onboard sound (Realtek ac'97). I found a
knowledge base article that referenced random sound related crashes to
obsolete drivers for the ac'97 and the solution was to upgrade the drivers
via Windows Update. Unfortunately Windows Update does not put the required
update (833846) into the update list when I run it, even though my installed
drivers are older than the drivers that would be installed by the update.

I have found more current drivers for this device in a couple of places

and installed them with no success.

Does anybody know anyway to manually choose a specific windows update and

get it to download and install. I would really like to try installing
833846 and seeing if that fixes the problem.

 

[roger]

Hi Hooligan,

To save downloaded updates
To set Windows Update for downloading the updates for later
installation instead of installing now:
Go to Windows Update
Click on Personalize Windows Update (left column)
Click "Display the link to the Windows Update Catalog under See Also
Click Save Settings button.

When you're ready to download:
Go to Windows Update
Click Windows Update Catalog (left column)
Click on Find updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems (or,
Find driver updates for hardware devices)
Select your OS & click the Search button
Select what you want; Critical or Recommended
Select the downloads you want and go to the download basket.



Good luck