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by charshbarger

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I've been trying to reinstall a sound card driver, but cannot, no matter what I've tried (Windows update, Service pack 2 etc.) This has happened after upgrading from Windows 98SE to Windows XP Pro. I would have thought XP would have found all the drivers, but not this one. It's a Sis7012 driver. Can I get help with this?
thanks.

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by thechas

You most likely need an updated audio driver.

If your sure the sound chip is an SiS 7012, I recommend using the reference driver from SiS.

Start here:

http://www.sis.com/download/

Select Windows XP, Audio Driver, and SiS7012

Click on "GO", and you will be taken to the download.

The file is a ZIP archive. Extract the files to an easy to locate folder (C:\Drivers\SiS\).
Then look for a readme or other text or document file with the install instructions.

You may need to fully uninstall the existing driver before the new driver will install.

Chas

by sgt_shultz

last time this happened to me, things worked fine when i hooked up another set of (non-digital) speakers. did you try this with an ear bud?
are you getting bangs in device manager?
what other cards are in the system? maybe you have a pre-set pci slot or another pnp card set to a 'hard-coded' resources or some other interrupt conflict...

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