HP Pavilion 532W

**powersj** · March 7th, 2004, 01:13 PM

I am working on an HP Pavilion 532W. I loaded a fresh copy of Windows XP on the machine. Everything seems to be working OK except for sound.

In device manager I have yellow exclamation points on "SM Bus Controller" and "Multimedia Audio Controller". The mobo is a TriGem Imperial with built in AC97 audio.

I have searched HP's web site, but, cannot find any driver files.

Can anybody direct me to a possible source for drivers?

On a side note: The machine seems to restart at random. I've read on HP's web site about heat issues related to this problem.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

**NooNoo** · March 7th, 2004, 03:02 PM

Originally Posted by powersj

I am working on an HP Pavilion 532W. I loaded a fresh copy of Windows XP on the machine. Everything seems to be working OK except for sound.

In device manager I have yellow exclamation points on "SM Bus Controller" and "Multimedia Audio Controller". The mobo is a TriGem Imperial with built in AC97 audio.

I have searched HP's web site, but, cannot find any driver files.

Can anybody direct me to a possible source for drivers?

On a side note: The machine seems to restart at random. I've read on HP's web site about heat issues related to this problem.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

Welcome to windrivers powersJ!

according to my research this is what you need the AD1886 sound chip was made by realtek.

**EagelEyes** · May 17th, 2007, 08:54 PM

ok i have a problem that has bein bugging me for a while i just recently bought a HP Pavilion 532w for my gurl friends mom and i upgraded it with windows xp because it had a problem and ever since thne i have no got sound it is really starting to get annoying because i cant find drivers that will fix it so please help me someoen u have no idea how annoying this is

***DonJ*** · May 18th, 2007, 09:10 AM

Motherboard Specifications, TriGem 129504 (Imperial):
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...os=228&lang=en

Onboard Audio Configuration: AC'97 Down
AC'97 Codec Device: AD1886

Looks like NooNoo's link above should be able to help you out. Make sure you check out the Readme file.

fyi, there is also a BIOS Update for GL_VE Motherboards, HP Pavilion 532w Desktop PC (US/CAN) here, Release Date: 2003-10-20, Version: 3.24:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...os=228&lang=en