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Gru...@oldman.com

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Jul 27, 2012, 7:34:51 AM7/27/12
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I am fixing an older Dell desktop (Dimension 2400), and need a few
drivers for it. I have found all except the audio driver R105155.EXE.
Every try I make to download same via Google gives me everything but
the driver. A big mess.

All I want is that dang driver for this machine. That's all. Dell
did not supply it for the Service Tag involved. Dell says the
R105155.exe driver is not available.

Can anyone point me to a download site to get it?
Thanks

Grumpy

VanguardLH

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Jul 27, 2012, 10:18:54 AM7/27/12
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Grumpy wrote:

> I am fixing an older Dell desktop (Dimension 2400), and need a few
> drivers for it. I have found all except the audio driver R105155.EXE.
> Every try I make to download same via Google gives me everything but
> the driver. A big mess.
>
> All I want is that dang driver for this machine. That's all. Dell
> did not supply it for the Service Tag involved. Dell says the
> R105155.exe driver is not available.

Note: You never mention WHICH operating system you are using on the
computer. When looking at Dell's audio drivers, I selected Windows XP
since it was the only OS listed as supported for those models.

You sure you are working on a Dimension 2400? There are 3 audio drivers
listed by Dell and none of them are the R105155 you mentioned. For the
Analog Devices ADI 198x integrated audio controller, they list the
R94481 driver file.

Their Dimension 1100/B110 lists the R105155 download file. It also says
it is for the integrated Analog Devices ADI 198x audio chip. I don't
know why they would have a different audio driver file for the 1100
versus the 2400 since they list the same audio controller in both
models; however, the 198x means a family of models where x is variable.

Did you get some bastardized hardware configuration where a Dimension
1100 was scavanged to repair a 2400 and that's why you're trying to use
an audio driver for the 1100 in the 2400?

From search results, it looks like "ADI 198x" is associated to the
SoundMax audio card. Searching at download.com on "analog devices adi
198x" turned up:

http://download.cnet.com/Audio-Analog-Devices-ADI-198x-Integrated-HD-Audio-Driver-Version-A01/3000-2110_4-168812.html
http://download.cnet.com/SoundMAX-Integrated-Digital-HD-Audio/3000-2110_4-174215.html

Gru...@oldman.com

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Jul 27, 2012, 2:19:23 PM7/27/12
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:18:54 -0500, VanguardLH <V...@nguard.LH> wrote:

\
>Note: You never mention WHICH operating system you are using on the
>computer. When looking at Dell's audio drivers, I selected Windows XP
>since it was the only OS listed as supported for those models.

I'll answer a few of your questions. Sorry I omitted that I was
using XP SP3 - I was in a XP group so I got careless.

>
>You sure you are working on a Dimension 2400? There are 3 audio drivers
>listed by Dell and none of them are the R105155 you mentioned. For the
>Analog Devices ADI 198x integrated audio controller, they list the
>R94481 driver file.

I agree. And the other drivers all worked on this machine. The video
and the Ethernet.

>
>Their Dimension 1100/B110 lists the R105155 download file. It also says
>it is for the integrated Analog Devices ADI 198x audio chip. I don't
>know why they would have a different audio driver file for the 1100
>versus the 2400 since they list the same audio controller in both
>models; however, the 198x means a family of models where x is variable.
>

I don't know either. If I could just download the R105155.exe driver
I would try it - it's just that Google blasts me with ads every time
I try to download the thing.


>Did you get some bastardized hardware configuration where a Dimension
>1100 was scavanged to repair a 2400 and that's why you're trying to use
>an audio driver for the 1100 in the 2400?
>
>From search results, it looks like "ADI 198x" is associated to the
>SoundMax audio card. Searching at download.com on "analog devices adi
>198x" turned up:
>
>http://download.cnet.com/Audio-Analog-Devices-ADI-198x-Integrated-HD-Audio-Driver-Version-A01/3000-2110_4-168812.html
>http://download.cnet.com/SoundMAX-Integrated-Digital-HD-Audio/3000-2110_4-174215.html


I'll see if these work. Can u point me to a download site for the
R105155.exe driver anyway?

Thanks
Grumpy

Gru...@oldman.com

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Jul 27, 2012, 2:25:04 PM7/27/12
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:18:54 -0500, VanguardLH <V...@nguard.LH> wrote:

>You sure you are working on a Dimension 2400? There are 3 audio drivers
>listed by Dell and none of them are the R105155 you mentioned. For the
>Analog Devices ADI 198x integrated audio controller, they list the
>R94481 driver file.

The BIOS and the desktop case both say Dimension 2400. This has a P4
2.66GHz CPU Service Tag JL88H41.

Grumpy

Gru...@oldman.com

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Jul 27, 2012, 4:03:52 PM7/27/12
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:18:54 -0500, VanguardLH <V...@nguard.LH> wrote:


>From search results, it looks like "ADI 198x" is associated to the
>SoundMax audio card. Searching at download.com on "analog devices adi
>198x" turned up:
>
>http://download.cnet.com/Audio-Analog-Devices-ADI-198x-Integrated-HD-Audio-Driver-Version-A01/3000-2110_4-168812.html
>http://download.cnet.com/SoundMAX-Integrated-Digital-HD-Audio/3000-2110_4-174215.html


Neither did anything for me. The second gave me a driver which would
not install.
Thanks anyway
Grumpy

VanguardLH

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Jul 27, 2012, 7:38:17 PM7/27/12
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"Grumpy" wrote:

> VanguardLH wrote:
>
>> From search results, it looks like "ADI 198x" is associated to the
>> SoundMax audio card. Searching at download.com on "analog devices
>> adi 198x" turned up:
>>
>> http://download.cnet.com/Audio-Analog-Devices-ADI-198x-Integrated-HD-Audio-Driver-Version-A01/3000-2110_4-168812.html
>> http://download.cnet.com/SoundMAX-Integrated-Digital-HD-Audio/3000-2110_4-174215.html
>
> Neither did anything for me. The second gave me a driver which would
> not install. Thanks anyway Grumpy

From some posts in the Dell forums, the R105155 was giving users a lots
of problems. For awhile, Dell pointed to a missing page so users got
error messages about "page not found". Then they provided a page with
the pointer but the file wasn't there. I didn't follow through the
discussions to see if those users complaining about trying to get this
file could actually get it. I do recall one poster mentioning that it
wouldn't install (but don't remember the error the poster noted).

VanguardLH

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Jul 27, 2012, 7:39:43 PM7/27/12
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"Grumpy" wrote:

> I'll see if these work. Can u point me to a download site for the
> R105155.exe driver anyway?

I did a Google on R105155 and saw the Dimension 1100 model mentioned.
So I went to Dell's support site and search on that model and the
R105155 was listed as one of its audio drivers. So go to Dell and look
at the drivers available for the 1100 model.

Gru...@oldman.com

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Jul 27, 2012, 7:44:01 PM7/27/12
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:38:17 -0500, VanguardLH <V...@nguard.LH> wrote:


>From some posts in the Dell forums, the R105155 was giving users a lots
>of problems. For awhile, Dell pointed to a missing page so users got
>error messages about "page not found". Then they provided a page with
>the pointer but the file wasn't there. I didn't follow through the
>discussions to see if those users complaining about trying to get this
>file could actually get it. I do recall one poster mentioning that it
>wouldn't install (but don't remember the error the poster noted).


Missing pages? Gee this driver is an audio driver. How would 'pages'
be involved?

Grumpy

VanguardLH

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Jul 27, 2012, 7:44:51 PM7/27/12
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"Grumpy" wrote:

> VanguardLH wrote:
>
>> You sure you are working on a Dimension 2400? There are 3 audio
>> drivers listed by Dell and none of them are the R105155 you
>> mentioned. For the Analog Devices ADI 198x integrated audio
>> controller, they list the R94481 driver file.
>
> The BIOS and the desktop case both say Dimension 2400. This has a P4
> 2.66GHz CPU Service Tag JL88H41.

But how did you ever come up with needing the R105155 since it is not
listed as an audio driver for the 2400 model?

By the way, when I search at Dell using the JL88H41 tag, it shows a web
page with only 3 categories (5 files) of which none are audio drivers.
I had to click on the "All files" tab to see 10 categories with 71
files and which did have 3 files under the audio category.

Have you opened the box to look inside to see if the audio controller
isn't disabled using a jumper and some other audio card was inserted in
a slot? Is the audio enabled in the BIOS? Does the audio controller
show up in Device Manager (devmgmt.msc)?

Gru...@oldman.com

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Jul 28, 2012, 5:10:20 AM7/28/12
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:44:51 -0500, VanguardLH <V...@nguard.LH> wrote:

>But how did you ever come up with needing the R105155 since it is not
>listed as an audio driver for the 2400 model?

Thought you'd never ask :<)

Actually I used Driveragent to do a scan on the 2400 - it revealed
said driver needed. I couldn't download it because I have exhausted
all the machines I can use (10) Driveragent for (on past machines, now
long gone).

Grumpy

Gru...@oldman.com

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Jul 28, 2012, 5:28:41 AM7/28/12
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:44:51 -0500, VanguardLH <V...@nguard.LH> wrote:

>But how did you ever come up with needing the R105155 since it is not
>listed as an audio driver for the 2400 model?

Gru...@oldman.com

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Jul 28, 2012, 5:57:12 AM7/28/12
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:39:43 -0500, VanguardLH <V...@nguard.LH> wrote:

>I did a Google on R105155 and saw the Dimension 1100 model mentioned.
>So I went to Dell's support site and search on that model and the
>R105155 was listed as one of its audio drivers. So go to Dell and look
>at the drivers available for the 1100 model.


I downloaded and installed the R105155.exe audio driver for the Dell
1100, and it works just fine on this 2400. So far anyway.

Thanks a meg.

Grumpy

VanguardLH

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Jul 28, 2012, 10:27:28 AM7/28/12
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Well, from where do YOU download files from Internet sites?

Gru...@oldman.com

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Jul 29, 2012, 5:27:44 AM7/29/12
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On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:27:28 -0500, VanguardLH <V...@nguard.LH> wrote:

>Well, from where do YOU download files from Internet sites?


I stand corrected. From Web Pages of course.

Grumpy
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