Need Audio driver for Emachines T3304

[Ubiquitous_One]

My girlfriend is using an Emachines PC - Model T3304 - and for some reason, WinXP has lost the driver for the audio chip..

It has an NForce 410 chipset.... but I can't seem to find the specific audio driver this board needs. Emachines.com website only lists the BIOS flash and Video driver for this system - but it comes with Intgrated AC97 audio so I'm stymied as to why there is no inclusion of audio drivers.

Can ANYONE offer assistance?

CPU: AMD Sempron™ 3300+ Processor (64-bit)
(2GHz, , 128KB L2 cache)
Operating System: Genuine Microsoft® Windows® XP Home (SP2)
Chipset: NVIDIA® nForce™® 410
Memory: 256MB DDR (1 × 256MB), 400MHz (PC3200)
Expandable to 2GB
Hard Drive: 100GB (7200rpm, 2MB cache)
Optical Drive: 48x CD-RW/DVD combo drive
Media Reader: 8-in-1 digital media manager (Secure Digital™ (SD), smart media, micro drive, memory stick, memory stick pro, compact flash, mulitimedia card, USB 2.0)
Video: NVIDIA® GeForce® 6100 GPU
up to 128MB of shared video memory
PCI-Express® (PCI-E x16) slot available
Sound: 6-channel (5.1) AC'97 audio
Network: 10/100Mbps integrated Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 port)
Modem: 56K ITU V.92-ready fax/modem (RJ-11 port)
Peripherals: Standard multifunction keyboard, 2-button wheel mouse, amplified stereo speakers
Ports/Other: 5 USB 2.0 (4 in back, 1 in media reader), 1 VGA external connector, 1 serial port, 1 parallel port, 2 PS/2 ports (keyboard and mouse)

In the Device Mangler, it says there is no driver for the audio chip, and to reinstall driver - however the system cannot find its own, which was clearly there a few days ago - the system mysteriously lost sound at that time and hasn't worked since.

Any help would be appreciated .... I'm kinda upset that Emachines doesn't have more comprehensive support, but I suppose one gets what one pays for.

The system is using Avast! antivirus, and had 5 or 6 active Trojans on the box when I got a hold of it - apparently their McAfee subscription ran out a while back and they never replaced or purchased it. Ugh!

-uo

[pip22]

This is the realtek ac97 soundchip driver which is worth a try:
http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/ac97.html

[Ubiquitous_One]

Honestly - without cracking it open and seeing if I can SEE the chip - I have no way to know.

I ran a program called "Unknown Device Identifyer" - and it labled the audio chip as Nvidia specifically.

Can I find out specifically which audio this chip this thing has without cracking it open?

[bookworm]

Originally Posted by Ubiquitous_One

Honestly - without cracking it open and seeing if I can SEE the chip - I have no way to know.

I ran a program called "Unknown Device Identifyer" - and it labled the audio chip as Nvidia specifically.

Can I find out specifically which audio this chip this thing has without cracking it open?

The model T3304 uses the Realtk ALC655 audio driver, the link pip22 gave is the correct driver.The reference to nVidia is the audio chipset not the driver, confusing I Know.

Hope this helps

[Ubiquitous_One]

Awesome - thanks a bunch, will definitely try that!

Will keep you posted.....

-uo

[Ubiquitous_One]

Success!!!

That was the driver - Thanks so much to pip22 and Barbara!!!

You guys rock!!

-uo

[Deckard]

2 years later someone else was also helped. ty Pip.

edit: oh yea, after restarting and trying running itunes again, my old driver wasnt up to the task anymore, there's now way more volume (could have been a setting i screwed up long ago). and it all sounds much better.