installation of onboard sound card

[Guest tural]

I have a problem installing Realtek High Definition Audio drivers.

When installing the most recent driver from Realtek website

(WDM_R178.exe), the driver installation stops with an error message:

Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure !! When I look at the device

manager, it says that the drivers are not installed. What can be done in the

case of 64 bit platforms.

My system is win xp pro 64 bit, on board realtek hd audio system. Couldu

please help me ?

[Guest Theo]

Re: installation of onboard sound card

 

Are you sure you have the 64-bit driver and are you sure

it's the right on for you motherboard?

 

You should be so kind as to tell us exactly what your

hardware is; i.e., exactly what motherboard, or computer

system, make and model do you have?

 

 

tural wrote:

> I have a problem installing Realtek High Definition Audio drivers.

> When installing the most recent driver from Realtek website

> (WDM_R178.exe), the driver installation stops with an error message:

> Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure !! When I look at the device

> manager, it says that the drivers are not installed. What can be done in the

> case of 64 bit platforms.

> My system is win xp pro 64 bit, on board realtek hd audio system. Couldu

> please help me ?

>

[Guest Carlos]

RE: installation of onboard sound card

 

Hi,

Most of the times, don't know why, my downloads from Realtek result in

corrupted exe's.

Try downloading the zip version.

If everything is Ok, you will get no errors when unzipping the file and you

will be sure that you don't have corruption in the installation files.

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

The other thing to take into account is you are sure that you need the HD

drivers or the "regular" AC97 ones.

Read your motherboard manual and see what chipset you have in there.

Carlos

 

 

"tural" wrote:

> I have a problem installing Realtek High Definition Audio drivers.

> When installing the most recent driver from Realtek website

> (WDM_R178.exe), the driver installation stops with an error message:

> Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure !! When I look at the device

> manager, it says that the drivers are not installed. What can be done in the

> case of 64 bit platforms.

> My system is win xp pro 64 bit, on board realtek hd audio system. Couldu

> please help me ?

>

[Guest Tony Sperling]

Re: installation of onboard sound card

 

If it is a HD sound chip, then you may need a special KB update for XP of a

number I cannot remember - this should be written in your documentation, or

I can try and look it up later! Carlos, may know about that one?

 

 

Tony. . .

 

 

"tural" <tural@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:1D6D0D9C-8322-4C81-9F4B-61A213755287@microsoft.com...

> I have a problem installing Realtek High Definition Audio drivers.

> When installing the most recent driver from Realtek website

> (WDM_R178.exe), the driver installation stops with an error message:

> Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure !! When I look at the device

> manager, it says that the drivers are not installed. What can be done in

the

> case of 64 bit platforms.

> My system is win xp pro 64 bit, on board realtek hd audio system. Couldu

> please help me ?

>

[Guest Carlos]

Re: installation of onboard sound card

 

Tony,

This is the only KB I could find related to HD audio.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/937077/en-us

Carlos

 

"Tony Sperling" wrote:

> If it is a HD sound chip, then you may need a special KB update for XP of a

> number I cannot remember - this should be written in your documentation, or

> I can try and look it up later! Carlos, may know about that one?

>

>

> Tony. . .

>

>

> "tural" <tural@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:1D6D0D9C-8322-4C81-9F4B-61A213755287@microsoft.com...

> > I have a problem installing Realtek High Definition Audio drivers.

> > When installing the most recent driver from Realtek website

> > (WDM_R178.exe), the driver installation stops with an error message:

> > Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure !! When I look at the device

> > manager, it says that the drivers are not installed. What can be done in

> the

> > case of 64 bit platforms.

> > My system is win xp pro 64 bit, on board realtek hd audio system. Couldu

> > please help me ?

> >

>

>

>

[Guest Tony Sperling]

Re: installation of onboard sound card

 

Unfortunately, my HD sound chip is on that 'other' machine, which I cannot

access, I found this bit of text on the system CD:

 

***

Due to an engineering error, the HD Audio bus driver that shipped in

Server 2003 SP1 and Windows XP x64 Edition contains what is

called ¡§time bomb¡¨ functionality that prevents the use of the

binary after a certain date. That date was August 1st 2005 and users may

find their audio device stop working after that date.

 

If the following conditions are true, the computer Intel High

Definition audio functionality unexpectedly quits working:¡E

The computer is running either Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

 

¡E The computer has an Intel High Definition audio device.

 

 

CAUSE

This problem occurs because of a problem in the Intel High

Definition audio driver that

is included with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional x64

Edition.

 

 

The Download Center URLs will be as follows:

 

WS03

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D0934D06-15B3-4A65-8C52-746BEB24E86C&displaylang=en

 

WS03 x64

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0E850506-50EE-4458-902F-F9FC59201B04&displaylang=en

 

WinXP x64

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DAB139F1-065C-41E8-A148-9D79BD9D24F9&displaylang=en

 

The reason this happened has been addressed for future OS releases.

 

***

 

I have not the faintest idea if this applies in this situation or on this

particular hardware, it was just something I remembered (half way).

 

 

Tony. . .

 

 

 

"Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:29764E05-A7C7-4A90-A6E2-5D5C71535AC3@microsoft.com...

> Tony,

> This is the only KB I could find related to HD audio.

> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/937077/en-us

> Carlos

>

> "Tony Sperling" wrote:

>

> > If it is a HD sound chip, then you may need a special KB update for XP

of a

> > number I cannot remember - this should be written in your documentation,

or

> > I can try and look it up later! Carlos, may know about that one?

> >

> >

> > Tony. . .

> >

> >

> > "tural" <tural@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> > news:1D6D0D9C-8322-4C81-9F4B-61A213755287@microsoft.com...

> > > I have a problem installing Realtek High Definition Audio drivers.

> > > When installing the most recent driver from Realtek website

> > > (WDM_R178.exe), the driver installation stops with an error message:

> > > Install Realtek HD Audio Driver Failure !! When I look at the device

> > > manager, it says that the drivers are not installed. What can be done

in

> > the

> > > case of 64 bit platforms.

> > > My system is win xp pro 64 bit, on board realtek hd audio system.

Couldu

> > > please help me ?

> > >

> >

> >

> >