Sound Drivers for Vaio PCG-F580

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I have an old Sony Vaio F580 which I am giving to my daughter. It was
originally running Windows 98 but I reformatted the computer and
installed Windows ME. It took me a while to find the video drivers
but the NeoMagic drivers from their site worked fine.

However I still can not get the modem and the sound card to work. I
can live without the modem. However the sound card is probably one of
the most important elements as my daughter will be using the computer
for playing games and using educational CD-ROMs all of which require
sound.

I went to the Yamaha site and downloaded both of their sound drivers
for the PCI DS-XG ( http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/pr [...] loads.html
) and I have tried installing both drivers. Each time I reboot the
system recognises the card and asks for the drivers and can't find
them.

I am really stuck as I can not use the computer without the sound
drivers and I can not get them to work.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you in advance for any assistance you may provide.

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I got my drivers from the Sony site. The 98 and ME should be
identical drivers. My old Vaio is going strong and has a better
screen than my new Thinkpad.

Jim





On 23 May 2004 03:16:04 -0700, google@erb.com (Derek Erb) wrote:

>I have an old Sony Vaio F580 which I am giving to my daughter. It was
>originally running Windows 98 but I reformatted the computer and
>installed Windows ME. It took me a while to find the video drivers
>but the NeoMagic drivers from their site worked fine.
>
>However I still can not get the modem and the sound card to work. I
>can live without the modem. However the sound card is probably one of
>the most important elements as my daughter will be using the computer
>for playing games and using educational CD-ROMs all of which require
>sound.
>
>I went to the Yamaha site and downloaded both of their sound drivers
>for the PCI DS-XG ( http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/pr [...] loads.html
> ) and I have tried installing both drivers. Each time I reboot the
>system recognises the card and asks for the drivers and can't find
>them.
>
>I am really stuck as I can not use the computer without the sound
>drivers and I can not get them to work.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Thank you in advance for any assistance you may provide.

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Derek Erb wrote:
> "Quaoar" <quaoar@tenthplanet.net> wrote in message
> news:<dYKdnSpLVoZ6KS3dRVn-hA@comcast.com>...
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> I should have prefaced my message with the fact that I have been
> working with computers for over 25 years now...
>
>> What format was the downloaded driver?
>
> It's an EXEcutable file which one can see by going to the link I
> included in my original message.
>
>> If it was an exe file, did you
>> execute the exe file, and if executed, did it install the driver or
>> did it just create a c:\soundriver folder? ("Soundriver" could be
>> anything).
>
> It appeared to install the driver as it went through a complete
> Install shield type installation process. It also must have changed
> at least something in the registry as immediately after running the
> installation program and rebooting the computer starts asking where
> the driver is for the sound card.
>
>> If it did created such a folder, did you open it and review any
>> readme.txt, etc, file that has additional instructions?
>
> It created a Yamaha directory in Program Files where I hoped to find
> the driver. It only put a couple of files in there none of which are
> executables, INF files, PDF files, text files or READMEs of any sort.
> The only useful file in the directory is UNINST.INF which is used to
> uninstall the driver which never completely appeared to install in the
> first place.
>
>> Many times,
>> installing the driver is from a setup.exe application; somtimes it is
>> from right-clicking a driver.inf file and selecting Install,
>> sometimes it is from the add-hardware manager that requires browsing
>> to the c:\soundriver folder where the manager highlights the
>> driver.inf file.
>
> True.
>
> I had used file - search and looked for all .INF files on the disk.
> As I had only recently reformatted the drive it didn't find thousands.
> None of the INF files found contained the necessary driver and I kept
> trying to point the Device Setup Wizard to each of the INF files just
> in case.
>
> Either I do not have the right driver for the right card OR the driver
> is not installing correctly OR I am just not doing something right.
>
> Has anyone else run in to this sort of problem with this model? Does
> anyone else have sound with this model?
>
> When it was running under Windows 98 the sound worked perfectly.
> However I now have some hardware which requires at least Windows ME
> (802.11b PCMCIA card) and can't go backwards.
>
> Help!!!

Yamaha YMF-744b -
http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/drivers/76/76639.htm

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