real problems with realtek

i need help very baddly. attempting to deal with this has given me ptsd. i'm totally out of ideas. my system win xp home sp3 gigabyte am2 socket m61p-s3 mobo 8800gts 320mb egva gpu 2 gigs ddr2 kingstan ram.fristly i've had the onboard audio working befor upgradeing to a new hard drive, a friend worked out this problem he said it turned out to be a problem with the pci. interface and somhow used the driver disk from my gpu to get things working somhow? i've tried a reinstall i've removed it from add/remove and even my registry i've tried disabling it in device manger uninstalling and reinstalling uaa "the version that comes with my motherboard driver disk.....i'm flattly out of ideas. and today some how my sony discman works but nolonger has sound? obviously nothing to do with my computer but i've never heard of such a thing...god has taken away the gift of music...pplleeeaassee take pitty on me all i see now is "install realtek HD audio driver failure" or realtek will install but does nothing and it always goes unrecognized in audio devices in the control pannel

 

I'm not sure I want to go up against God, but I'll give it a try. LOL

The original XP SP3 update didn't have provisions for Realtek HD. I'm not sure if that has been corrected.

Anyway, this fix seems to work for that. Before using it, I would recommend uninstalling both your Realtek audio driver and the MS UAA. Also, create a Restore Point because the fix deals with editing the registry.
Go to Start>Run and type in regedit

This patch is required before any of the HD device drivers are installed
1. On your PC change the CSDVersion registry key to XP SP2:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows\CSDVersion value=200
2. Restart your PC
3. Install KB888111xpsp2.exe http://couponmeister.com/blog/HD_Audio/kb888111xpsp2.exe
Install your audio driver.
4. Change the CSDVersion key back to XP SP3 again:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows\CSDVersion value=300
5. Restart your PC, finalize configuration of your PC, sysprep and capture.

 

it worked perfectly i've never felt this happy and stupid at the same time..it feels a bit odd but i'll manage....words can't possibly even touch upon the depth of my gratitude. thank you so much !! but you know many on going threads on this very site, still exploreing an answer to this very problem you really should share this with the rest of us realtek victoms i've flipped through countless bits of advice via google the last 1 and a half ...thanks again and again after that as well

 

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I love when these things work.


If there are still ongoing threads here that this fix works for, they must be old ones, from before I found it. Or abandoned ones. (probably both) I try to keep up with them. At least the Realtek ones.