Missing Multimedia Audio and SM Bus Controllers

**S_e_archin_g** · June 26th, 2004, 06:53 PM

Alright...it's crazy that so many poeple are having this problem. I have the remnants of what used to be an HP Pavilion mx70. It's my grandparents computer and before I arrived they had some problems and...it looks to me like someone charged them to take out the old board and put it in a new box. The audio is built into the board and I did try the steps suggested to the other HP owner but when I got to the end of the install for the ADI 188x well it told me that "the drivers weren't found" and that I should reboot and try again..so I did...and got the same message. Any help?

**NooNoo** · June 27th, 2004, 10:58 AM

Welcome to Windrivers searching

I think you should confirm that the motherboard in the machine is the original motherboard or not. this should tell you and its free.

Post what it finds under chipset, system, mainboard and bios please.

**I-Hate-Computers** · July 4th, 2004, 03:38 AM

I suck at everything. I'm bald, short, fat, and haven't been layed in over a year now. Please Help me.

**I-Hate-Computers** · July 4th, 2004, 03:45 AM

I tried the Sound driver you said from that website, as a matter of fact, i tried all the drivers from that website. I hate my life

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I have an HP Pavilion 772n and thats all i know about it. If i have too, i wil download every driver on every website till i know which one works.

Please help me. I'm short, fat, bald, and worse yet, I havent been layed in over a year now. And that wasn't a pleasent site either.

K a little exagerated on the pitty side, but still. I have tried it all and i need help. please reply.

Mountain Dew Will One Day Take The World Over. Twice.

**confus-ed** · July 4th, 2004, 06:58 AM

So welcome to windrivers forums I-Hate-Computers ..now there's a name I can definately relate to

For anyone else looking for HP Pavillion 772n 'stuff' its here @ hp which I thought I'd mention , as I'm confus-ed

as to which drivers on this thread you might have tried

Its also important to realise that hp model numbers can be different by country , so what you get as a match for a model 'here' (I'm in the uk) might be different from 'there' (generally we use American stuff when we aren't sure where you are from)- you MUST make sure you are looking for the right thing

**confus-ed** · July 4th, 2004, 07:06 AM

Originally Posted by confus-ed

.. which I thought I'd mention , as I'm confus-ed

as to which drivers on this thread you might have tried

..

& for a wotpp 'protest' point : - Can I once again register my 'displeasure' at all this 'tacking on' ..

(whether I can or not I shall !

)

Please folks - one thread per poster & issue - else it all gets most confus-ed, which means confus-ed-ness, which is great for me when I'm feeling confus-ed, but not lucid, but I think generally in the technical bits of the forums, I'm suppos-ed to be lucid & NOT confus-ed - Is that sufficiently confus-ing ?

**metz** · July 4th, 2004, 10:05 AM

Im having the very same problem as the first thread here had, i cant install the same SM Bus controller, and sound drivers as its on board. Its a HP pavillion 453.uk

Belarc Details

Sytem Model -
HP Pavilion 05 DA149A-ABU 453 3030211RE101TANGO

Main Circuit Board b
Board: Hewlett-Packard HP System Board HP P/N

Can anyone help me out at all?

**GrandDad** · July 4th, 2004, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by metz

Im having the very same problem as the first thread here had, i cant install the same SM Bus controller, and sound drivers as its on board. Its a HP pavillion 453.uk

Belarc Details

Sytem Model -
HP Pavilion 05 DA149A-ABU 453 3030211RE101TANGO

Main Circuit Board b
Board: Hewlett-Packard HP System Board HP P/N

Can anyone help me out at all?

Welcome to WD metz .

Did you try any of the links given and looked for your model ?

**GrandDad** · July 4th, 2004, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by hapsan

Hi Munky_Head,

I'm having the exact same problem that you described. I followed the link to the MSI onboard sound page and tried to install the ADI188x drivers but they didn't work. Are these the drivers you used? If not could you tell me which did work for you. Thanks!

Sorry you were missed and Welcome to WD .

This is why they ask to start your own thread so your not missed or lost in the crowd .

Anyway were you able to solve your problem ?

**metz** · July 4th, 2004, 01:17 PM

Yes I looked on these website's and could not find my systems details on there. but Im not very good at all this. I looked again just incase but cant see the drivers I need:- my details:-

Belarc Details

Sytem Model -
HP Pavilion 05 DA149A-ABU 453 3030211RE101TANGO

Main Circuit Board b
Board: Hewlett-Packard HP System Board HP P/N

Can anyone help me out at all?

**NooNoo** · July 5th, 2004, 05:44 AM

Metz you have the pavilion 453uk.

You just need to install the the inf driver here stupidly, hp doesn't supply it.

You didn't say which windows you have, but this one is for all windows versions

**jroztocil** · October 14th, 2004, 02:10 AM

Originally Posted by Munky_Head

I have an HP Pavillion 772n. Recently I had to get a new hard drive. I do not have the bundled software or the system recovery disk from HP. I installed Windows XP Pro on it. I now have two conflicts in the device manager. I am missing the Multimedia Audio Controller and the SM Bus Controller. Obviously I have no sound. I have been searching everywhere for the drivers. The chipset on my computer is Intel 845e. I believe that the motherboard is a Micro-Star MS-6579. The sound card is on board. Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Munky_Head

HP Pavilion 772n
mobo: MSI MS-6579, BIOS v3.04 5/10/2002
Video: GeForce4 MX420 (HP)
orginal NVidia Driver version: 28.32 (6.13.10.2832)
XP Home (OEM, of course)
modem: Lucent WinModem (ltmndmnt.sys LT v8.20)
network: reported as RealTek RTL8139 Family (XP driver)
chip is actually RTL 8101L
P4 2.26GHz - mb should support at least 2.8G per manual posted at:

http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/OEM/HP/ms-6579.zip

sound: according to device manager it is an Avance Logic, Inc. Avance AC97, ALCXWDM.SYS, v5.10.3830

I'll only have it another day or so so if you have questions...

**Snap Shot** · November 24th, 2007, 09:55 AM

Hello All,
I just wanted to post my findings for anyone looking for the same problem to find and hopefully fix their problem.
I installed a new hard drive in my Emachines M6805 and reloaded WinXp pro. When done I had no Standby and naturally no Hibernate. I checked all the easy stuff and I had the ACPI compliant device in my device manage with the current Driver.
My fix was easy. I updated the CPU driver. I had the original disk from Emachines. If you can't find it online drop me an e-mail and I'll send it to you.
I will get a link put on my website when I get my system back running 100%.
Drivers will be at: www.snapshot911.com/emachines
I had to load about 6 drivers so I will put all of them on there. I know they are on emachines website so I am just making it a little easier for all you people out there needing help.

Emachines M6805
512 Ram
Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+
ACPI compliant system
80G WD hard Drive
Internal WiFi
Realtek AC'97 Audio

Hope this helps someone. Took me a few hours to figure it out

**Platypus** · November 25th, 2007, 06:30 AM

Welcome to WinDrivers Snap Shot & thanks for taking the time to post your experience. CPU driver is an easy one to overlook.

**Jerry A** · January 26th, 2008, 09:38 PM

I have the HP Pivilion 772n and lost the HD in it so I lost the recovery and could not get the audio to work. I contacted HP support and they gave me the link to a site who had it, and IT WORKED. Here is what they gave me...
ftp://202.65.194.212/pc/audio/WDM_403.exe if you cut & paste this address into your address bar it will download the (updated) driver you need.

Jerry A.