audio driver
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audio driver
my friend has formatted her pc 2 days ago, evidently she lost her audio driver. now i guided her through finding out what chip she has so as to download a suitable driver ( we used aida32). it turned out she's got the same chip as mine (VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio controller Driver ), but when i sent my dirver it wouldn't work, we have tried a bunch of via drivers and none worked, i don't know what the other things i should look at are, but here's some of her system info:
Motherboard ID 12/24/2001-VT8366-VT8233-6A6LVF09C-00
Motherboard Name FIC AN11 (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 1 ACR, 3 DIMM, Audio)
Motherboard Chipset VIA VT8366A Apollo KT266A
AUDIO: VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio controller Driver
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Have you tried to obtain the driver via the Device Manager?
When you say it wouldn't work did you get any error messages? or wha happened?
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no we didn't try to obtain it by device manager. yes she got an error message saying" no audio hardware is available or the hardware isn't responding. i don't believe it's a hardware problem for that happened only after the format.
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hey i had the same probs when i formatted ( i am not hijacking this log as i have fixed it along time ago and am giving her/him the info in which i used )
i also had a via chip and tried all sorts , in the end i used to drivers , one was the via 4 in 1 and the ac97 audio drivers, i still have them both so if you need them i can send them to you via email if you want?
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hey chou, thanks for your time, but they didn't work 
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but well, i just uninstalled my audio driver and got a different error message from hers :S
the sound driver works only on msn messenger audio conversation, but not on other IM programs. at windows media player she gets this error message: cannot play back the audio stream: no audio hardware is available, or the hardware is not responding
on real player she gets: cannot open the audio device, another application may be using it
can this probably indicate anything?
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yea said same thing on mine, as for them error messages these are what it means
CAUSE
This issue may occur if either of the following conditions is true:
• Your computer does not have a sound card, or your sound card is not working correctly.
• Another program is currently using your sound card, so it is not available for Windows Media Player to use.
Note This cause is specific to Microsoft Windows NT-based or Microsoft Windows 95-based computers.
• The hardware acceleration is set to too high.
hm il have a look now for different drivers for you
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btw can i just ask a few questions,
im presuming she is using xp??
and her soundcard is legacy VIA AC 97 (WDM) ??
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I am having the exact same problem as leen14, and I have the exact same motherboard and audiocard, and the same problem = the audio codecs from that you all mention do not work.
What can I do?
How did you finally fix it leen14?
It's been a month now without any audio and it's getting a little bit boring...
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Have you tried the driver posted by chou?
