Audio driver failure after installing new hard drive

[joelanderson47]

Ok, here's how I got the sound to work on the MX6421 with XP Media Center. Download the driver and extract it to the Cabs folder (it'll do this automatically). Run the Setup.exe which is in c:\cabs\D00377-002-001 folder. This will not get the sound to work but will get windows to at least see the driver later down. Here is the link to the driver...

http/support.gateway.com/support/drivers/getFile.asp?id=20489&uid=177779200

Go to Device Manager (see above posts on how to get there), click on the "multimedia audio controller", click "reinstall driver", click "no, not this time" on the wizard that comes up, check the "install from a list..." and click Next. Click "don't search..." and click Next. Scroll down to "Sound, Video, and Game controllers" and double click on it. Click on Conexant in the left pane and click on "conexant ac-link audio" in the right panel and click Next. You'll get a message saying "installing this driver is not recommended...", click Yes. It may ask to locate a file, if so browse to the c:\cabs folder referenced above. And that's it, sound should now work.

after i do all you say it comes back and says the driver (that i got from gateway and is the same driver as you set a link to) is not compatible with this device it says please make sure it is compatible with 64 bit machine.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.!!!! thansk

Joel

 

[frenchysp1]

This worked for me on a reinstallaton of xp media ctr ed. found on another thread:

For the Conexant Ac-Link Audio Drivers/Realtek problem, here is the solution:

1. Install Realtek Audio driver: http/www.download3k.com/Realtek-AC-97-Dr...M_A404.exe.html
2. Reboot
3. Download and try to install (it will fail) the Conexant AC '97 audio driver. Here is the one from Gateway http/support.gateway.com/support/drivers...p;uid=194540439
(the Gateway AC '97 driver decompresses into the c:\cabs directory (make a note of that.)
4. Go to device manager, find the Realtek AC '97 audio item under “Sound, video, and game controllers”. Right click on it and select UPDATE DRIVER.
5. Select NO if it asks to connect to Windows Update, click NEXT.
6. Select “Install from a list of specific location” and click NEXT.
7. Select “Don’t search. I will choose the driver to install” and click NEXT.
8. UN-select “Show compatible Hardware”. Now, CONEXANT should show up under manufacturer because you tried to install the driver earlier.
9. Click on CONEXANT on the left, then select “Conexant AC-Link Audio” on the right and click NEXT.
The driver will install. It may ask you for the location of some files a couple of times, keep pointing it at the c:\cabs directory.
10. You may hear sound right away (I jumped!), if not reboot and you should hear the glorious windows music!