E1505 - clean format - no audio

Question

I just bought a new E1505 with the standard audio. The first thing I did was format the hard drive, and get rid of the partition that dell sticks on these machines. I installed a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro, and everything seemed to be ok. I went online to Dell's support site, and started downloading and installing all of the drivers. Everything worked fine until I got to the audio drivers. When I try to install them, it first extracts the files out, then makes me restart. After restarting, it goes back to installing, but then immediately pops up the error 'This system does not support the driver you are trying to install.' When I go to the hardware manager, there is no audio hardware listed. Does anyone have any ideas?

bacillus · Answer

did you install the intel chipset driver?

deveshchauhan · Answer

go to the my computer -> properties->hardware->device manager..there u will find one yellow mark on 'pci device' ...right click on that and say update driver.....(if u dont have dell driver CD then download the drivers from dells support site).........after updating this driver u should not see yello mark..... once that is over install system disk drivers from CD, intel chipset drivers and then install the audio driver ............ i hope this will solve ur problem....

rpiIT2005 · Answer

Thanks, I got it. I'm actually the one who posted the PCI Device fix on another thread. But it's good to see people actually search before posting =).

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