Another Vaio Sound Problem

[Kazper]

Greetings!

I've seen this problem dozens of times over the past couple of weeks and have tried every solution posted, but nothing seems to work for me, so I'm posting the question with my specific hardware listed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a Sony Vaio PCV-RS 430G with an integrated ADI SoundMax AD1981B. My mother board is an Asus P4SD-VX with an Intel chipset (82801EB(M)ICH5).

The sound works fine under Windows XP, but I want to run Windows 2000 Server. The sound card shows up in the device manager with a "?" and when I try to install using, what I'm pretty sure are the right drivers, I get an error at the end of the install stating "Driver not found! Reboot your system, and run this setup again."

I've done that in normal and safe mode, but get the same thing. All Sony has for download are XP drivers, but when I try that I get an error stating the drivers are ONLY for XP and the setup exits without installing anything.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

[hudsonsmith]

Welcome to windrivers kazper. Do you have the intel chipset software installed? http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Detail_Desc.asp?agr=N&ProductID=816&DwnldID=7484 If you are getting a ? next to the sound card in device manager, then it is the intel audio controller that is not being identified. The adi codec will not appear in device manager.

We've been around the block on this with another sony having the same board. http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=61876 He was able to get the driver from the cd for another asus board, but he didn't say which one. Either PM him, or give this one a try http://www.asus.com/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=15&l3_id=19&m_id=2&f_name=1985WDM_3630.zip~zaqwedc

[Kazper]

Thanks for the suggestions, but no go. I've tried pretty much everything under the sun. I've even installed Win 2000 Pro, and get the same problem there.

The only thing I can think of, off hand, is that I need to enable an "audio service" somewhere. I remember needing to do this many years ago with Win NT.

However, when I look in the "Services" item under "Administrative Tools" I can't find anything to do with sound or audio. Am I missing something?

Thanks again!