Took my Gateway desktop running XP Pro out of retirement & ran into a boot problem. Did a repair install (fixed that issue). Installed SP2 with no issues then installed SP3 with still good boot. Updated IE6.0 to 7.0 then installed all critical patches (other than IE8.0) No issues other than no sound & .Net framework was also missing. Thanks to Ben, I was finally able to install .Net Framework 3.5 & finished installing all critical updates (cannot update to optional 4)as well as Microsoft Bus Driver thru hot fix e-mailed to me from M$. Multimedia Audio Controller installed. Sounds & Audio devices still show no audio devices installed. Audio device is Realtek AC'97 (Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R1-23); repeated tries to download & install it fail, get about 99% thru & PC shuts down & reboots. Get the following error message in Event Viewer: ".NetRuntime Optimization Services reached limit of transient errors. Will shut down. Last error returned from service Manager 0x80029c4a. Event 1111". Device Manager gives me the following: Service Status: This device is not configured correctly (Code:1). Dev. MGr. shows an ! now & ethernet controller has a ? but I doubt that has anything to do with the lack of sound.
VEN NO.: PCI\VEN8086&DEV_24D5&SUBSYS_2019107B&REV_02\3&267A616A&0&FD
I was told that rolling back to SP2 & intalling drivers there might resolve the issue. Any thoughts?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Bob
Also tried new speakers (getting frustrated here). Multiple AV & AS scans show no problems. Any other ideas?
VEN NO.: PCI\VEN8086&DEV_24D5&SUBSYS_2019107B&REV_02\3&267A616A&0&FD
I was told that rolling back to SP2 & intalling drivers there might resolve the issue. Any thoughts?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Bob
Also tried new speakers (getting frustrated here). Multiple AV & AS scans show no problems. Any other ideas?