You have got to be kidding me, what is going on here?

I have a F3JP w/vista. I decided upgrade my audio driver last night (bad move). Through my course of troubleshooting it quickly came back the nightmare I had the first time around 6 -7 months ago. I believe I found the steps on how to resolve this issue here, I did a search on this forum and I can no longer find the thread.


These are the steps I have tried -
uninstalled
reinstalled (more times than I can count)
tried installing driver from recovery cd
uninstalled codec packs I had downloaded


And now for the most frustrating part - windows CAN find the driver, but it gives me a timeout message every time. Something along the lines of realtek driver failed to install , and I can't remember the last part - something about it exceeding timeout length? Device manager shows High Definition audio on Bus (at work, don't have exact name.)

I really would like to avoid running the recovery disk if I could. And no, it is not a hardware issue - I have this system setup as a dual boot and the audio works fine in XP.

 

No suggestions?

 

Suggestion: install driver cleaner pro.

Uninstall driver.

Reboot in safe mode.

Start driver cleaner pro, add the filter(s) for your audio card manufacturer, run the cleanup.

Reboot, install driver.


Suggestion 2: System restore point before the bad driver installation. (Control Panel / Backup and Restore Center)

 

I'll give that a shot when I get home tonight. Thank you.

 

you can not use the standard audio driver without the uaa update. the uaa update will not work for an array of reasons. you are not the only one who had trouble with it. point is do not upgrade your audio driver.

 

right click on the setup file and choose run as administrator and override everything

 

I'd try my suggestion first.

 

System restore is the Best way to go if you can find restore points.

 

Installing drivers in safemode FTW, thanks for the help guys!