Realtek HD Audio on Foxconn 865 motherboard?

[PriusGeek]

Grrrr. The Realtek audio function on my Foxconn 865 motherboard is
refusing to work after I changed from my beta copy of Vista to the
retail version of Ultimate. It was working before with the beta
drivers I downloaded from Realtek, but nothing seems to work with any
version I use now.

I tried the 1.62 and 1.64 driver versions downloaded from both Realtek
and Foxconn, but neither worked. I tried the old beta drivers and they
don't work either.

There are two failure modes, both result in Vista not installing any
audio devices at all:

1. Everything installs OK using the installer, I reboot and the
hardware manager sees a multimedia device with no drivers installed.
2. If I disable the sound chip in the BIOS, boot, install the drivers,
reboot, enable the sound chip, and boot again, the Realtek device is
recognized in device manager, but it says it can't start with a "code
10.

Any advice about this? I tried this with both an upgrade install and
a complete wipe and load from scratch with the same results.....

 

[dean-dean]

Have you tried, in Device Manger, to update the driver using the "Browse my
computer for driver software" button? The Realtek installation should have
put the driver and inf files in this folder:

C:\Program Files\Realtek\InstallShield

 

[Gray D. McCord]

I tried several variations, but will try this one as well. I was able to at
least get sound by installing the Realtek AC97 drivers, which seem to work
just fine. I wonder why the HD drivers are DOA?

 

[dean-dean]

Well, having just Googled FOXCONN 865 motherboards, without knowing the
details of yours in particular, it appears that the AC97 driver for the
onboard sound might be the correct one. I'm not seeing High Definition
audio mentioned. If this is the case, then the Realtek Vista driver for
AC97 (dated 2007/3/12) is here:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...=23&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

 

[Gray D. McCord]

Sure, that's the one I installed that works. However, if I go to the
Foxconn site and grab the Realtek driver they provide, its the HD version
and it just doesn't work at all. The system never recognizes the sound
function. The odd part was that this was working just fine with the RC2
version of Vista that I just upgraded.

God Bless Microsoft.