Don't know which Sound Driver to install

[2k_dummy]

 ECS K7S5A is your motherboard. Look in belarc again and see if the chipset is identified as SIS7012 or SIS7018.

[street1 (RIP)]

I personally use Everest to ID my hardware, not Belarc.

Everest download is---->Here


Off Topic P-Wood uses Belarc though.

[2k_dummy]

Looking back at the first post, it is the SIS7012. Go here http://www.sis.com/download/ and follow the drop down menus, then click go.

[DKsupern00b]

Eh, got this error when I tried:

UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices
-536870397

[2k_dummy]

The file should be in .zip format. Did you unzip it.

[DKsupern00b]

Lol yeah, it happend during installation.

[2k_dummy]

Looks like you tried to update the driver instead on installing it. Go to the directory where you unzipped it and look for its setup or installation file.

[DKsupern00b]

It happened during the installation that launched when I clicked SETUP.exe

[2k_dummy]

Did you remove those extraneous drivers that you had downloaded? If not, do so, then try this. Go into device manager and remove the sound card. Reboot. If windows detects the sound card and offers to install drivers, cancel out. After the computer finishes booting, try the setup again.

[DKsupern00b]

It didn't work. Maybe we should take that error message I keep getting literal?

"UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices"

I guess it wants me to update the Driver for Plug and Play devices, =/
if it's even something you can do, how do I update a Driver for PnP Devices?

[street1 (RIP)]

Very dark room must have light.

I think you need to go to start/run

and type:  sfc /scannow something isn't right here.

Read the below site and have your XP disk ready.

http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

[DKsupern00b]

Allright, copied that I386 folder from my Windows CD and went to the Register Editor to change that folder thing like the site said I should and ran the sfc /scannow. However it gave no results, after the scan was completed it simply closed down and I take it as there were no errors and that all my files were intact.

There is a slight chance some of the old Drivers might still be installed, but only partially 'cus it's not showing up in my Add or Remove Programs. One of the Drivers I tried to install gave me a short message after running the .exe file saying it would be installed and be done in a few mins. After that however nothing happened, no matter how long I waited or how many times I tried. Is  it even possible for a Driver to only be "partially" installed and then not show up in the Add or Remove Programs?

Also haven't anyone else expereinced the "UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices" error before?

[street1 (RIP)]

So, you tried this driver?--->Here


If you already tried it maybe you got a bad download.Try again.

[DKsupern00b]

In ur forum, postin' mah errors...

It's not working, it gives me the same error over and over again. And the readme ain't helping much either, I think it's missing some parts...

"To install Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/Win2000/WinXP drivers, please run SETUP.EXE in this directory;
To uninstall Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/Win2000/WinXP drivers, please run Control_Panel->
Add/Remove_Program->SiS Audio Driver"

Isn't it supposed to say WHICH directory after that semicolon?
Anyways I tried to run the SETUP.EXE from Add or Remove Prgrams, it did nothing but give me the godforsaken error again.

Why do you keep ignoring the error I talk about by the way, or is it just that you don't tell me about it and still make solutions based on it without telling me?

Whenever I run setup it gets to arund 25% and I recieve theese, one after the other.



Pretty, aren't they?