Driver for SIS 7012 Audio Device

G'day. Help needed please.
I think I'm looking for a SIS 7012 driver. Uncertainty is because the Device Manager says it should be a C-Media AC97 (but Everest says it's SIS). I have downloaded C-Media drivers and Realtek AC97 drivers with no result. I then read that XP Pro SP2 (which I have) sometimes mistakes audio devices for C-Media. So I then tried SIS 7012 drivers and still no good. They all give a Code 10 error and a yellow ! on teh Device Manager. The C-Media drivers come back every time I reboot.

Sound, Video and Game Controllers are:
Audio Codecs
C-Media AC97 Audio Device
Legacy Audio Drivers
Legacy Video Capture Devices
Media Control Devices
Mpu-401 Compatible MIDI Device
Standard Game Port
Video Codecs


Sounds and Audio Devices Properties are:
Volume - all greyed out
Audio - Sound Playback and Recording - Modem #0 Line Playback
Music Playback - MPU-401
Hardware - much like Device Manager list, including C-Media AC97

I uninstalled C-Media drivers before installing other drivers (which I saved in folders on the desktop).

BIOS says: "AC97 Audio.....Enabled". All very confusing.

PC details are:

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Celeron, 2633 MHz (26 x 101)
Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-8SG800 (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset SiS 648
System Memory 512 MB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award Modular (04/30/03)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 (Microsoft Corporation) (64 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Monitor HP D8901 [17" CRT] (MY02500485)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter SiS 7012 Audio Device

 

Thanks Halo. This is weird. :confused It still didn't work after following your suggestion (thankyou)... but with a lot more messing around, it's now working.:celebrate
I had actualy gone to that site and downloaded and installed the audio drivers - but not the chipset. So I did both this time, but same result. Tried several times and in various ways.

Eventually I came across a Realtek folder - already on the computer, similar to the one I downloaded yesterday, so I though, what the hey, I'll give that a go (I used the install file this time - I had been forcing it to accept drivers from folders before this). Guess what!! (Yes, it worked - after I realised I had to go to Sound and Video Devices and tell it where to look - I was able to get a CD to play before that).
I then rebooted to make sure it would stick, and when I did it opened the Found New Hardware Wizard. So I pointed it to the Realtek folder I downloaded yesterday, and away it went again. It seems to have stuck this time.

So what's it all about, Alfie? (singing smilie - can't find one - Mimsy used one the other day)

The changes now are that the Realtek AC'97 Audio Device is listed in teh Device Manager (where the C-Media was before), and now Realtek appears in many listings in Everest, as shown below. Interesting thing is that it is still listing SIS 7012 as the Audio Adapter. Why? Why? Why? Do they just do that to make it tricky?:confused Or has some Realtek thing been installed that both transforms teh SIS device into a realtek device, and then tells you that it's neither of these, but it's a C-Media device. :confused

I suspect this also has something to do with the BIOS saying AC97....Enabled. Where does it get the AC97 from? Why doesn't it say SIS7012??? That's the integrated device, according to everything it says...

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Celeron, 2633 MHz (26 x 101)
Motherboard Name Gigabyte GA-8SG800 (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset SiS 648
System Memory 512 MB (PC2700 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award Modular (04/30/03)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port Printer Port (LPT1)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 (Microsoft Corporation) (64 MB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Monitor HP D8901 [17" CRT] (MY02500485)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter SiS 7012 Audio Device



Windows Audio

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Device Identifier Device Description
midi-in.0 0001 0067 MPU-401
midi-out.0 0001 0066 MPU-401
midi-out.1 0001 0066 Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth
mixer.0 0001 0068 Realtek AC97 Audio
wave-in.0 0001 0065 Realtek AC97 Audio
wave-in.1 0001 0050 Modem #0 Line Record
wave-in.2 0001 0050 Modem #0 Handset Record
wave-out.0 0001 0064 Realtek AC97 Audio
wave-out.1 0001 0051 Modem #0 Line Playback
wave-out.2 0001 0051 Modem #0 Handset Playback


PCI / PnP Audio

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Device Description Type
SiS 7012 Audio Device PCI

 

Emergency double post. Sorry.
I just checked my other XP Pro computer (I found the one I'm working on at the moment - hard rubbish throwout - I think I can see why they threw it out), and it's set up the same way, except that it has ATI where this one has SIS.
I think the real question now is, how would you know that you need a Realtek driver, instead of SIS or ATI? You can't tell until after you've installed it. Maybe that AC97 in the BIOS is teh clue???:confused

 

Thanks Halo. I think this is a case of 'dopey me'. After reading your previous post and purporting to follow your directions, I think I accidentally used the SIS audio drivers that I had downloaded earlier, instead of teh one you pointed to. I already had that one downloaded as well, but I think I got the two mixed up (they didn't have labels saying - you got this one from here and this other one from here.. and I was doing that at about 2 am, so that's my excuse). I've just spent half an hour trying to retrace my steps so I could figure out what went wrong. I think, in the end, if I had followed your instructions properly, I would have got it fixed straight away. "My bad." :-o
Thanks again for your help, and explanation.