Pcv-RS 421V Reformatted

Hey, i need some help... aight heres what happened...my comp is a pcv-rs 421v sony vaio, in which i reformateed because i had to much garbage and it seemed like the quickest thing to do at the time to fix that. well ne wayz sony didnt supply me with a xp cd so i just installed windows 2000 on it. but now i cant find any drivers for my soundcard. sony only provides the driver for xp, and any other site i found saying it had the driver i need ive downloaded (they are only updates, not the actual driver) so i was wondering if someone out there could gimmie a hand and help me find what i need. thanx

Welcome to windrivers needhelp. Have you tried the xp driver? Otherwise, give this a try: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scri...9&DwnldID=6816

yes ive tried the xp driver, says i need xp as opperating system. and ive also tryed that link you gave me also, i get an error message saying "No driver found, please reboot your system and run setup again" which i have also done. anything else? plz help

i have everest home edition if you need any information from that

Well, Sony says you have an ADI codec. The question is which one. The intel driver supposedly worked on AD1885, AD1980, AD1981A or AD1981B. See if everest will tell you what you've got. Should be under PCI Devices.

under pci devices it says i have "intel 82801eb ich5 - ac'97 audio controller" is that what you are looking for?


also under multimedia/audio codecs it does not say anthing about adi

No, that's not it. In addition to the audio controller you've also got an ac'97 audio codec. Its an ADI Soundmax, but Sony doesn't say which one. It might also be listed as Analog Devices.

Complicating things is that Soundmax doesn't release drivers. So, if Sony doesn't have one for W2K, you need to find one for a similar motherboard with the same codec.

Does Everest identify the make and model of your motherboard?

yeah its an asus p4sd-vx

Its an oem board. No specs or drivers on asus web site.

Were you able to find any reference to ADI Soundmax or Analog Devices in Everest?

Hudson, I did a little digging, that asus is an 865G Springdale, you did get the right drivers. There is something else going amiss here.

Any suggestions? im kinda broke on cash and would like a free solution (no go buy win xp again, or something like that haha)

It could be that the sound has been disabled in the bios setup.
Or sony had a special board made with a different sound chip. Have you contacted sony to get the xp cd by the way?


here is the asus version of the drivers download those and try them

Nope, same problem....should i check my bios?

Yup!

yeah its all enabled :/
bah u think my sound card might not be compatable with win2k ?

No, I think your onboard sound maybe faulty. Try installing the drivers in safe mode.

Sony will supply you a new xp disk - have you contacted them?

not yet because im trying to do a free fix, in other words im a cheap *** lol

welp, safe mode did nothing :/
those files that u told me to download in the past, i never found an actual driver file in any of them....just thought u should know that
im gettin frustrated, would it be worth it to just buy a new soundcard so i dont have to put xp back on? cause im not a big fan of xp in the first place.

The driver is run from the setup file. If you didn't run setup.exe, it would not install.

try these drivers from asus You will need to unzip them and then run the setup. I found these while researching sound for a similar problem on a very similar motherboard... Make sure that the sound drivers you have previously run do not appear in add/remove programs... if they do uninstall them and reboot.

yeah i have prevously downloaded that file and did same thing, i did just look in add/remove programs and it did have previously installed stuff. but after i removed it and rebooted same problem happened. :/ i mean this a brand new computer, i bought it last christmas..... and it was working perfect.

well i took a long shot, and used my brothers driver cd that came with his new ausis mother board......i actually worked, even though its a completely different board and what not. thanx for all the help guyz i appreciate it

Glad you sorted it.

I've tried everything to try to get this to work, I refuse to install XP on this Sony pcv-rs320. If you still have those files from your brother's computer..... send em to me, I'm willing to try them. [email protected]

just get the memont all this can be work