realtek "hd audio driver failure!! [Error Code: 0xc0000005] " fixed!

I just dropped a Foxconn G31MXP-K into a dell that had a fried motherboard. I got Vista installed back on it, and started the restoring process. I got all the drivers installed on the machine except the very evil audio driver. After fighting with the horrid error code "hd audio driver failure!! [Error Code: 0xc0000005]," I have finally got the answer, and it's soo easy. I searched everywhere, and there are a lot of fixes for XP, but this is for VISTA. simply go to the control panel, into the programs and features, and here's the hard part... Delete the realtek audio software. Don't flip out on me yet, odly enough, removing it leaves the control software on the computer and does fix the audio.
Here's the breakdown of why, or atleast the best I can figure... The software package does infact install the driver, but it also installs some of the software not intended for Vista 32b edition. So, as it gets to the end of the install, it throws the great error. Now some of you might have noticed the 0xC0000005 code that is sometimes associated with the evil BSoD. Well, in fact it is the same, but it's not really a hardware issue. So by uninstalling the software through the programs and features, you effectively delete the bad parts of the software that are screwing up the driver install on Vista. So it's rather easy, but I hope to save someone else a little trouble.

Best of luck.
Tony H.
H & H Services

 

Cool. Good to know. Thanks for posting. Hopefully this will help someone and will result in fewer heads being pounded in to walls, and fewer handfuls of hair being ripped from these same heads.
LOL