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tacohead   08-07-2008 at 12:51:58 PM

I dual booted xp32 bit onto my vista 64bit rig and I have no sound at all. By that I mean it's not even showing up in device managers, when I installed vista it was basically just auto detected and I installed the drivers but with xp it's not showing any signs of sound even being plugged in, any ideas?

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Zoron   08-07-2008 at 09:06:46 PM
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Install drivers... Vista had drivers built in... XP probably doesn't.

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tacohead   08-31-2008 at 09:56:35 PM
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I installed the drivers the same way I did with vista, used the cd that came with mobo. Xp has drivers installed but It's got no sound device at all, everything is greyed out. I even downloaded some newer drivers and still no luck.

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Zoron   09-01-2008 at 01:54:57 AM
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What type of sound card or codec?

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tacohead   09-02-2008 at 09:00:16 PM
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I have onboard sound, not sure how I can check codec though. I'm using a ga ep35-ds3r here's a link to it and the drivers http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support [...] uctID=2743
Those are the latest (1.97) and the cd has some old 1.86. No luck with either of them on xp 32bit sp3 but they both work with vista 64bit.

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Sloop   09-03-2008 at 04:54:32 PM
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SP3 does not recognize the onboard audio device. I had the exact same problem with that board. No matter what I tried nothing worked. I just settled for going back to SP2 and it worked fine.

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tacohead   09-04-2008 at 07:34:26 AM
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Sloop wrote :

SP3 does not recognize the onboard audio device. I had the exact same problem with that board. No matter what I tried nothing worked. I just settled for going back to SP2 and it worked fine.



Ahhh ok, is it possible to downgrade to sp2 without having to reinstall xp?

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