C-Media AC97 CODE 10

**simplesolution** · June 18th, 2007, 11:22 AM

Hello again, I have a Via Technologies chipset Via P4X266 (VT8753) mother board in a generic case specs are, P4 1.6gz, 1024 MB DDR-SDRAM it has onboard sound only,I have already installed the C-Media AC97 driver & have uninstalled it again as it did not change anything. In device manager it shows device installed but cannot start code 10 & I am overlooking something, & yes it is Monday morning here! Thank you in advance.

**NooNoo** · June 18th, 2007, 11:58 AM

Code 10 is lack of resources or lack of power... I suggest you turn off the parallel and serial ports in bios and try again. Where did you download the drivers?

**simplesolution** · June 18th, 2007, 12:22 PM

SoftwarePatch

**NooNoo** · June 18th, 2007, 01:18 PM

why on earth are you not downloading the drivers from the motherboard manufacturer? Or even the reference drivers from cmedia?

**simplesolution** · June 18th, 2007, 01:39 PM

Sorry for the short answer before I had a customer walk in. The driver past Microsofts testing, & that was the first resource I found in my initial search > I know I am suppose to always come to you first Noonoo, but you take the fun out of doing it myself! I will get back to you shortly & thanks.

**simplesolution** · June 18th, 2007, 03:02 PM

Ok disabling parallel & serial did not solve the problem, went to Via & attempted to download & Via says the Via AC97 audio is not found on the system so I went to C-MEDIA & downloaded the driver after uninstalling everything again with the same end results this has never happened to me before but could that one controller have gone bad or am I still missing something? The chipset is VIA P4X266 & device audio is VT8233/A AC97.

**NooNoo** · June 18th, 2007, 03:23 PM

You don't go to me first... you go to the motherboard manufacturer!!!

What is the motherboard make and model? If you don't know, there are several ways of finding out - downloading everest from majorgeeks is probably the easiest.

Each motherboard uses an ac97 codec, but the drivers they supply may be different for each implementation. Reference drivers often do not do all the bells and whistles that the board manufacturer has designed (and written the drivers for)