Reinstall After HD fail.. Sound drivers are driving me mental
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dilemma i suppose.. anyways long story short using my computer (older
HP/COMPAQ celeron 2.6 w/512RAM) HD to back up data for my other
friend seemed like a good idea but the drive is a few years old and
after the jostling with it back and forth from comp to comp, when my
friends computer was up and running the HD began to fail, rather loud
clicking etc to the point the BIOS would not be passed.
I took a 6 Gig Drive from an old dinosaur and threw it in I have a 200
GB removable also but am using the smaller drive as the physically
installed boot drive, I proceeded to install a tweaked version of XP
and I installed the network drivers which were previously downloaded
from an accidental delete of them before. I then dl and installed
Everest utility ID'ing the hardware. The Video card was identified as
Intel Extreme Graphics 2 - 3D Accelerator and the drivers were easy to
find and download. The Everest ID tool lists the sound card as: Intel
82801EB ICH5 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-2/A-3]
I cannot find this driver or locate the driver on any rescource sites
driverguide.com etc..
There is a model number on a sticker on the top of the PC system
reading :
Hp Compaq 6530 SFF
The HP/COMPAQ web site is of no help as I can find no reference to
this model in the support section or in the download section all the
drivers I have downloaded 2 in all a Real Tek AC 97 and Audio Max AC
97 version and the drivers both seem to be recognized but I get a blue
screen crash at the end of the installation process be it from
updating hardware manually from system settings or auto install when
it boots. I use the computer quite a bit for Mp3s and all help would
be appreciated... I would do anything for this driver, and i mean
anything ;-)
Again Everest IDs it as: Intel 82801EB ICH5 - AC'97 Audio Controller
[A-2/A-3]
and was not wrong about the Video Card driver and the worst part is
the model number i do see on the HP/Compaq system physically in
sticker form is 6530 SFF cannot be found online... I am used to being
able to download full driver suites just by model number spank me and
call me spoiled i suppose.. Thanks again so much and remember i mean
ill do anything... LOL
proph3t
kony
Go into Device Manager and locate the audio device which
needs the driver, marked as having a problem still.
Right-click on it, choose "Properties", then click the
"Details" tab on the resulting window. On that page, the
top choice in the drop down menu is "Device Instance Id".
Look in the window pane below it, there is a text string
which includes info to identify it. Look at the part which
reads (astericks means wildcard, we don't know the numbers
they will be yet):
VEN_****&DEV_****&SUBSYS_********
Once you have the above numbers you can search for the whole
string, or individual parts like VEN_**** to identify the
vendor (brand). These numbers will also be in a compatible
driver's *.INF file to match the driver to the specific
device it is.
... or you might try this driver:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=316713&prodNameId=316715&swEnvOID=1093&swLang=13&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=hd-17950-2
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to.. did you use the vendor and model code to find the drivers?
Thanks so much it is a good bit of info to have to ID any more unknown
software
Help appreciated thanks!
proph3t
>
> Go into Device Manager and locate the audio device which
> needs the driver, marked as having a problem still.
>
> Right-click on it, choose "Properties", then click the
> "Details" tab on the resulting window. On that page, the
> top choice in the drop down menu is "Device Instance Id".
>
> Look in the window pane below it, there is a text string
> which includes info to identify it. Look at the part which
> reads (astericks means wildcard, we don't know the numbers
> they will be yet):
>
> VEN_****&DEV_****&SUBSYS_********
>
> Once you have the above numbers you can search for the whole
> string, or individual parts like VEN_**** to identify the
> vendor (brand). These numbers will also be in a compatible
> driver's *.INF file to match the driver to the specific
> device it is.
>
> ... or you might try this driver:http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription....
kony
<craig...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks so much for your help those were the proper drivers your linked
>to.. did you use the vendor and model code to find the drivers?
No, I do not know what the vendor and other codes were
without seeing what you would see in Device Manager. What I
did instead was look for some Compaq SFF systems using
Celeron 2.6GHz and 512MB memory, one of which was one called
D530 or something similar, so I looked at its driver files
and linked the audio driver.
Many of the Compaq systems made during the same period of
time used the same chipsets or very similar ones including
the audio codecs so I was not certain it was the right file
but through process of elimination the right one could be
found since there weren't many to try.
nobody >
Many PC vendors have yet another "number" that's used to track the
hardware/drivers installed as it left the factory.
Look for "Service Code" or other strings of characters around where you
found the model and serial.