Soundcard not detected in XP

Hi all,

I own an Acer Aspire 5920g which came with Vista Home Premium pre-installed. Eventually I got rid of Vista and installed XP Pro using advice (and drivers) found/ referenced in these very forums.

Everything has worked very well except the soundcard. Device Manager shows the following under "Sound, Video and Game Controllers":

Audio Codecs
Legacy Audio Drivers
Legacy Video Capture Devices
Media Control Devices
Video Codecs

Under "Other Devices":
PCI Device
PCI Memory Controller

Both of those have yellow exclamation marks next to them.

I have tried a couple of different packages (Belarc and Everest Home Edition) to see if they can detect the soundcard but no joy there either. I have also uninstalled and re-installed various drivers for the soundcard thinking that this might solve it with no luck.

I know the damn thing isn't blown as I've also used a Ubuntu live CD and was able to get sound playback using that, so it seems something very specifically Windows-related.

I am at the end of my tether with this and becoming increasingly annoyed at the system beep whenever I get a new mail Is there anything else anyone suggests I can do short of reinstalling Windows (the reason I don't want to do this is that it will involve downtime at work as the IT department need to install their invasive AV crap on the machine).

Thanks in advance

 

have you installed the microsoft uaa driver ?
it´s needed to get the soundcard working under winxp.

 

under vista did it use Realtek drivers? you can try the .exe file from Realtek and see if that gets your sound card going. (or you can use the .zip file if you have a little more knowledge)

 

Vista did use Reaktek drivers - I have tried a couple of different versions of them under XP with no luck.

I have no idea whether the MS UAA driver is installed - anyone have an idea of how I check this?

Thanks for the replies

 

the best way is just to install the UAA driver, even if it has been previously installed