Soundmax Drivers

[hodsocks]

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I have just installed an ASUS K8N-VM motherboard and am having problems installing the audio drivers. Whenever I try to install the Soundmax drivers downloaded from the ASUS website they get most of the way through installation and then throw up an error message "Drivers not found. Reboot and try again", needless to say I have tried this several times.
All of the other drivers installed as normal, I downloaded the drivers because the driver disc with the motherboard could not be read, despite trying it on 3 machines, this is a problem I have found before with ASUS driver discs.
I have checked the sound chip and its an ADI chip, looking at their website just points me back to the ASUS website for drivers.
I have carried out a repair install of XP and loaded SP2 but still no drivers working.
Looking in Device manager again the sound is being identified as a PCI card rather than a multimedia device that I would normally expect to see.
I have also disabled the sound in the BIOS and re-enabled it but still no improvement.
Has anyone any suggestions as to how I can get the sound to work?

 

[halcyon]

I know you've prolly done this, you sound experienced, yet I'll ask for my own edification. Did you install the chipset drivers before or after installing SP2? ...and I imagine you did both of those before installing the SoundMax drivers?