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Greatestone

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October 25th, 2004 05:00

PowerEdge 400SC Audio driver installation trouble

Hi.... I was able to install the sound driver (SoundMax) fine the first time I installed Windows XP (I used the Windows 200 driver, I assumed it was pretty much the same), but now I am trying to resinstall it after a cleanup, and for some reason, it keeps giving an error message when the driver files are trying to install (after having unzipped) saying "Driver not found.... please reboot the computer..."  I also tried downloading the most current driver from the Dell site, 65249.exe, and it does the same thing.  Am I missing a simple setting somewhere?  The onboard sound did work on this 400sc, 2.26 ghz P4.  Thanks!

jsharper

5 Posts

October 26th, 2004 05:00

As Win XP is not supported by Dell on the 400SC, and neither is the onboard sound, you may not get a positive response from Dell. However, try downloading the "Analog Devices ADI 198x Integrated Audio" WinXP sound driver for the Dimension 2400. It worked great for me.

I got the same error you are getting when I used an older version of the SoundMax installer for the AD1980 chip from intel.com listed under their D875PBZ motherboard (supposedly similar to the 400sc motherboard).

Greatestone

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November 2nd, 2004 23:00

Hmmm, I tried what you said with high hopes, but still the exact same error... any other suggestions?  Could it have to do with something where I used to use a soundblaster card with it, now i took that out, so maybe I crossed up a wire somewhere?

jsharper

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November 3rd, 2004 13:00

Sorry, I dunno what to suggest. No, I can't think of anything on the hardware side that you could do to cause this.

Hmm, wait, are you sure the onboard audio is enabled in the bios/cmos setup? Also, under Device Manager do you see the sound card as an unknown device or under the sound controllers section? If the latter, try deleting it from there and rebooting to get it to redetect? (and don't install any drivers if prompted after reboot.. just run the soundmax installer)

speedstep

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November 7th, 2004 00:00

Disable the onboard sound and get a CMI8738 PCI based sound card for $10 and be done with it.  XP SP2 supports these out of the box. Prior to sp2 you need to install a driver then update from windows update. The CMI8738 chip is dolby labs and WHQL certified. Its inexpensive and works just fine. Retail versions of the card are about $16 - $60 because they include WINDVD. The Hercules sounde muse is one of these.

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=L-8738-6C

http://www.cmedia.com.tw/product/doc8738.htm

http://www.saveateagle.com/l-8738-6c.html

 

 

 

 

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