Sound Driver

Post by **corpse** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:45 am

A friend with a HP media center pc did a reinstall with the xp pro media center disk, not the hp recovery partition because he deleted the recovery partition. In device manager, it shows only the a pci device is uninstalled. Cannot get this to install.

Sound is onboard and it seems that there is no sound. Would a onboard sound device show as a pci device? I would have thouight it would show up under the sounds, video, and game controller part.

Post by **FragaGeddon** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:53 am

You should be able to get the sound driver off hp's site.

Post by **obsidian** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:50 pm

If Windows doesn't know what it is, it may get tossed in as a PCI device or under unrecognized devices. I believe some onboard deviced are routed through the PCI controller, which is why they show up as a PCI device.

Did your friend make recovery discs prior to formatting, BTW?

Post by **Doombrain** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:30 pm

also, most media centres have to use media centre drivers so check the HP site for them.

Post by **corpse** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:07 pm

All I could find on the hp site were updates to drivers for this model. No actual drivers themselves. No recovery disks.

Post by **corpse** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:40 am

It is an HP media center pc m1170n.

If anyone can help me find these souind drivers it would be great.

I have talked to HP and they can't or won't help. They are sending a recovety disk but will take about a week.

Post by **obsidian** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:14 pm

Have you tried the Realtek driver update? It could very possibly be the full installation.

Also, try this

Post by **corpse** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:34 pm

I have tried the update from the hp site and its not the full installation. Trying yoiur link now.