You use the XP driver with Server 2003 but there are a few things to work through:
1. Enable (auto startup) Windows Audio Service. (This should be already enabled in 2003 Standard edition). For other versions:
Go to Start/Run and type Services.msc followed by enter. The Services window will appear. Scroll down until you find "Windows Audio". Double click on Windows Audio and change the startup type to Automatic, then Apply, Start, OK.
2. Download and install the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 KB901105 update from this Microsoft page:
By the way, I copied & pasted something you wrote last week and put it in my troubleshooting list. I meant to ask you if this was all right but forgot ... was sure you wouldn't mind anyway. This is how I wrote it:
"If it doesn't find a driver, then try this tip from bacillus: Get the audio driver then manually decompress it to an empty folder.
In Device Manager for the unknown device, right click it>properties>driver and hit the update driver button. Point the wizard to the folder you had decompressed the audio driver to."
zoghal
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i need to this driver so much
tnx
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You use the XP driver with Server 2003 but there are a few things to work through:
1. Enable (auto startup) Windows Audio Service. (This should be already enabled in 2003 Standard edition). For other versions:
Go to Start/Run and type Services.msc followed by enter. The Services window will appear. Scroll down until you find "Windows Audio". Double click on Windows Audio and change the startup type to Automatic, then Apply, Start, OK.
2. Download and install the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 KB901105 update from this Microsoft page:
link
3. Restart.
4. Install the Sigmatel audio driver for Windows XP:
link
If you still have trouble installing it use WinXP compatibility mode.
5. Adjust hardware acceleration:
Click on Start/Run and type dxdiag and click OK. Go to the Sound tab and move the slider on "Hardware Sound Acceleration Level" to Full Acceleration.
>> This is the site where I got the raw information for these instructions:
link
This is a very long article. If anyone wants to read it scroll halfway down, slightly more than halfway, until you get to the 2 posts titled
# SOLUTION 2/13/2006 11:18 AM kovacsAtTiLa
and
# re: SOLUTION 2/13/2006 11:48 AM kovacsAtTiLa
These 2 posts and several that followed plus some from other sites were the basis for these instructions. I hope this works for you.
Jim
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Jim Coates
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Thanks. A couple of folks have said it works.
By the way, I copied & pasted something you wrote last week and put it in my troubleshooting list. I meant to ask you if this was all right but forgot ... was sure you wouldn't mind anyway. This is how I wrote it:
"If it doesn't find a driver, then try this tip from bacillus: Get the audio driver then manually decompress it to an empty folder.
In Device Manager for the unknown device, right click it>properties>driver and hit the update driver button. Point the wizard to the folder you had decompressed the audio driver to."
Okay?
Jim
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