Hello there,
Home for the Xmas, I set about the task of fixing up the computer my parents bought several months ago and which has been plagued with problems since the off. I decided to replace Vista with XP, as I think (and want to be sure) that the issues are not with the hardware but with this buggy beta product.
Upon installing XP however, I discovered that the drivers CD that came with the computer was for Vista only! I've spent a lot of time in the past few days trying to find out what the relevant drivers are and install them, but the audio is a major problem. As yet, XP still doesn't recognise that there is an audio card in the machine. When I try to play an MP3 file in WMP, I get Error ID 0xC00D11BA. This worked fine previously under Vista.
In Device Manager, under Other Devices, there is an exclamation marked PCI Device. Location is given as PCI bus 0, device 20, function 2.
From somewhere or other (I can't remember which site or application I'm afraid) I discovered that the sound card is 'ALC Azalia 260,883,888,888s'. This is Realtek and onboard I think, but I can find very little info about this online.
Also, I found there is a BIOS update from 3.13 to 3.14 available - I don't know if this would make a difference, and anyway maybe installing it would violate the warranty (which still has 3 months left to run), and I can't do it if it does.
Here's the description of the system from Belarc. Under multimedia, it says 'none detected':
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3, v.3264 (build 2600)
FUJITSU SIEMENS MS-7275-VB 1.2
System Serial Number: YSDN183708
Chassis Serial Number: YSDN183708
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
3.00 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Board: FUJITSU SIEMENS MS-7275-VB 1.2
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. V3.13 01/26/2007
Drives Memory Modules c,d
147.45 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
133.98 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
HUAWEI Mass Storage USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7170A [CD-ROM drive]
ST3160812AS [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 0 896 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 1024 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 118.12 GB 112.57 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 29.33 GB 21.41 GB free
Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
Administrator 26/12/2007 20:49:56 (admin)
local system accounts
Guest never
HelpAssistant never
SUPPORT_388945a0 never
Marks a disabled account; Marks a locked account None detected
Controllers Display
ATI IDE Controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller] (2x)
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 Series [Display adapter]
Fujitsu Siemens L19-4 [Monitor] (19.1"vis, s/n YESH002392, November 2006)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (5x) None detected
Communications Other Devices
HUAWEI Mobile Connect - 3G Modem
Motorola SM56 Data Fax Modem
1394 Net Adapter
Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC
Dhcp Server: none responded
Physical Address: 00:19
B:56:0A:3C
Networking Dns Servers: 213.233.128.1
213.233.128.19
VIA OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
HID-compliant consumer control device
HID-compliant device
USB Human Interface Device (2x)
HID Keyboard Device
Logitech USB First/Pilot Mouse+
USB Composite Device (2x)
USB Mass Storage Device
USB Root Hub (6x)
So, does anyone know which driver I need and where I can download it?
Also, I've had a few issues related to the video drivers during this process (I'm using the ATI Catalyst latest chipset drivers), and am thinking of just reinstalling Windows again when I get this last piece of the jigsaw - in this case, should I reinstall in this order?
XP (SP2)
SP3
.NET 2 (was having lots of errors before I installed this)
DivX
Chipset drivers
Thanks for reading through this, any help appreciated!
The person in question also said they had the Audio Adapter ATI SB450 - High Definition Audio Controller on their system, which I've found no mention of on mine, so that presumably is why it didn't suit. Anyone any ideas?
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