hello All, much like everyone else I'm having some problems with my sound card. I recently reformatted my primary HD and lost my drivers. I was able to get a realtek AC 97 driver bundle for my PCI audio card, but when I tried to install the driver, it needed to restart as part of the process at which point, Windows recognized the card after the reinstallation but insisted that the driver needed to be installed and would immediately restart without prompting upon completing installation of the driver and then repeat that same procedure after every restart.
Edit: I got the drivers I tried to install from
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false
My AIDA32 Report is here
Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2.07 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7V8X-X REV 1.xx
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1003 02/13/2003
Drives Memory Modules c,d
963.01 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
183.00 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
_NEC DVD_RW ND-1300A [CD-ROM drive]
GE2344H DOH747L SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
OPTORITE CD-RW CW5202 [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
Century Nikoichi USB Device [Hard drive] (600.17 GB) -- drive 3
Maxtor 6Y120P0 [Hard drive] (122.94 GB) -- drive 1, s/n Y3KD8SFE, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy
ST3160023AS [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 2, s/n 3JS0MQLT, rev 3.05, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD800BB-00DKA0 [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAHL2543367, rev 77.07W77, SMART Status: Healthy 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'DDR 1' has 512 MB
Slot 'DDR 2' has 512 MB
Slot 'DDR 3' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 80.02 GB 42.64 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 1) 122.94 GB 30.10 GB free
g: (FAT32 on drive 3) 600.02 GB 83.15 GB free
h: (NTFS on drive 2) 160.04 GB 27.11 GB free
Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
Inanis Machina 11/8/2006 8:59:42 PM (admin)
local system accounts
Administrator never (admin)
Guest never
HelpAssistant never
SophosSAUWYRM0 11/8/2006 9:05:09 PM
SUPPORT_388945a0 never
DISABLED Marks a disabled account; LOCKED OUT Marks a locked account
Microsoft Office Document Image Writer Driver on Microsoft Document Imaging Writer Port:
Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 [Display adapter]
Default Monitor (3x)
FRG 14.9 [Monitor] (14.9"vis, April 2002)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
SCSI/RAID Host Controller
Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller (3x)
VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller Multimedia Audio Controller
Standard Game Port
Communications Other Devices
SoftV92 Data Fax Modem
1394 Net Adapter
3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 PCI For Complete PC Management NIC (3C905C-TX)
primary Auto IP Address: 150.209.144.53 / 24
Gateway: 150.209.144.1
Dhcp Server: 150.209.88.21
Physical Address: 00:01:02:35:C2:39
VIA Compatable Fast Ethernet Adapter
Dhcp Server: none responded
Physical Address: 00:0C:6E:2E:62:36
Networking Dns Servers: 150.209.88.21
150.209.4.21
24.30.200.19
VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
USB Mass Storage Device
USB Root Hub (4x)
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Sophos Anti-Virus Version Sophos Anti-Virus
Realtime File Scanning On