Realtek Sound Card isn't recognized after Formatting.

Okay so here's what happened. I got mad at the pathetic slowness of my 6 year old emachines computer and decided to reformat. Well awhile ago I stumbled upon something called Windows XP Black Edition which although filled with trojans XD uses much less memory than regular windows Xp. So I followed the instructions and it basically works like a reformat.

First I reformatted with the standard disk that came with my computer, and then I reformatted with the Windows Black Edition Cd. Everything worked fine there were a couple of pathetic trojans I wiped out with AVG and HJT, but the biggest problem is that nothing recognizes my Sound Card.

So the only thing I really know about it seeing as I can't see the exact brand due to the lack of recoginition is that it is a Realtek Sound Card, and its at least 6 years old.

The only things I've tried are making sure the Windows audio service is started and I went to the realtek website and tried to install the driver there. That brings me to another problem.

When I try to install the driver it gets half way through, opens a seprate pop up box that says installing driver and then restarts the computer without installing anything. I also checked to see if it was just an extraction, but there were no files from it in C:\ or My Documents.

Help would be appreciated. Also in case your wondering Windows XP Black Edition runs like normal XP so there isn't anything I can't do.

 

Did you install any chipset drivers?

A little more info is needed.

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Ah Sorry about the lack of info, i didn't know how much you needed. XD

Anyways the only driver I've installed is the realtek one from the site, which didn't even work.

My Computer is an Emachines T2862.

As you can probably see from the report I've modded quite a bit, however I haven't modified any hardware recently.

 

Install your chipset.
INF Update Utility - Primarily for Intel® 800 Series Chipsets

Then give this driver a try:
http://majorgeeks.com/Realtek_AC97_Drivers_d4400.html[FONT=Arial,helvetica]
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Chipset installed fine, and restarted the computer.

The link you gave me was to the same driver off the realtek website, but I downloaded it just to make sure. I ran it, and like before, it stops half way through installing the driver and restarts the computer.

Also a side note, there is no volume control in the system tray. I don't know if that's because it doesn't recognized the hardware or because of something else. So just in case it is important I'm telling ya.

 

Ok Nevermind Fixed it on my own. I put in the recovery disc I had and checked to see what was on it and the chipset and driver install were sitting right in an audio folder. Everything works now. Thanks for your patience though.