Apparently faulty sound driver

[Bennykill709]

I just recieved a brand new Gigabyte motherboard (model: GA-81945P) with a 3.2GHZ Pentium 4, and a GeForce 6600. The Graphics Card was installed successfully, and is thus not a part of the problem. It is the sound driver from the CD that came with the motherboard. I went through the install wizard, and watched it install the drivers, and restarted my computer when it asked me to... however, it did not work. So I went to device manager and looked under the Sound and Video Game Controllers, only to find an Unknown device. Sure enough, it recognized it as a Realtek device, but the Drivers were not apparently installed.

So I pressed update drivers and it went to the Driver update wizard, found a driver, and I began installing that. It went throught the installation, and as it was about to finish, I get a blue screen that reads as follows:

***stop: 0x0000001E (0xC0000005,0xBAE872BD,0x00000000,0x00000038) KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

***Address BAE872BD base at BAE83000, Date Stamp 423d6b - RtkHDAud.sys

Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump completed. Please consult your administrator or technical group... etc.

I'm assuming that this RtkHDAud.sys has an error in it. If anyone knows a way to fix it, or knows how I can download a non-faulty RtkHDAud.sys, please tell. Your Help will be much appreciated.

 

[ski]

Did you check the sound card manuf's site for a driver for your sound card?

 

[PurdueTNT]

If nothing else. restart the machine and uninstall the sound card from device manager and then let it find the device during the next restart

 

[Bennykill709]

Thats another problem, my system isnt finding the device at all, no matter how many times I restart. I thought maybe it was because its an on board device, not an actual sound card that I can physically install. And yes, today I did download drivers from the Website. They were newer versions, and I installed them, but they did the same thing as before. Im beginning to think that its a problem with the Motherboard, rather than the drivers.

I may decide to go and buy a seperate sound card from best buy or Circuit City or something. If anyone has any other suggestions that I havent thought of yet, then tell me. I would also like to know how much a Sound Card would be at your local electronics store. I'm not looking for anything so great it would blow someones ears off. I'm just looking for something that will give me at least 16 bit sound.

 

[felixc]

Is the local sound chip enabled in the BIOS?

 

[Bennykill709]

Hmm.... I didn't think the Sound chip was included in the BIOS... Where should I look?

 

[rvnguy]

Bennykill709,

It should be under the "integrated devices" or something similar.

On that board I think there is also a LAN (NIC) onboard. Should be covered in the manual. Normally under one of the selection in the "advanced settings"

Post back with what happens.

Hope this helps

BTW Excellent catch felixc.

rvnguy
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