I should have capitalized "Audio". This should get you there;

http://www.d-a-l.com/dan/Audio.zip

(It's 30+ MB)

Hello Dan,

Thanks, just before I push the button this, what does it do exactly. I don't really like running things without knowing roughly why or what to expect

thanks

Hello Dan,

Ok I installed it anyway - Blue screened the machine. But on reboot it came up Ok.

I now see the Realtek as the audio driver, but still no sound. Running the AVRack says there is no sound hardware.

My gut feeling is it relates to the Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator not being recognized. Why is the puzzle.

I have reinstalled that and it seems to go well. But it is not loading on boot. I suspect there is some conflict somewhere and something is blocking this from running.

Is theer a way that you know of to list and compare these system devices to see if something is running on the same whatever to cause a conflict ?

thanks for your ongoing help.
Garth

"Thanks, just before I push the button this, what does it do exactly. I don't really like running things without knowing roughly why or what to expect"

When installing a driver "package", all it does is place the new driver files in C:/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32 (and other applicable locations if required, ie; 16 bit drivers etc), and put the associated drivername.inf in C:/WINDOWS/INF directories. The "drivername".inf file contains the filenames and locations of the "new" files so on a restart, windows looks for the .inf file, gets the required information, locates and loads the driver files. If a driver doesn't work, you simply "Roll-Back" the drivers to the previous ones. You're left with a few files on your system, but that's about all.

Now, since you're getting blue screens every time you update your (sound) drivers, something else is wrong (as you've seen/found with this "Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator").

If you would, run Everest. Once it's finished loading and running, click on the Report Wizard in the Menu Bar. Save all hardware (only) related pages (the default) to a TEXT file in a location of your choice. (It will default the location to C:\Program Files\Lavalys\EVEREST Home Edition\Reports, unless you redirect it.)

Compress (zip) the text file and attach that zip document to your next posting. (When posting, click on Advanced, and just below the posting box you'll see "Additional Options", and within that, "Attach Files". Click on "Manage Attachments" and follow the prompts. Browse to the file and choose UPLOAD.)

If the zip file is larger than 2.86MB, post that it is and we'll make different arrangements to get that info to me.

I should mention that reciently my audio device driver went cold kinda your case except a virus was affecting mine mabee do a virus scan as well. I deleted the virus and installed drivers again it all works gud now. gud luck