Having trouble with a driver for SIS 7012 integrated sound on SIS 741 mobo

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I performed a clean install of Windows XP Home on a "Northgate" (Lan Plus) system built on an SIS 741 motherboard. This company is out of business, so I can't get drivers from the OEM. I went to SIS & used their driver utility & it identified the Northbridge as 741, Southbridge as 963/963L with SIS Mirage Graphics.

It ID'd the Audio as SIS 7012 Audio Controller. I downloaded & extracted the driver & ran setup & it throws an error early in the installation. I've downloaded & extracted the driver twice, in case the initial download was corrupt.

The integrated SIS 900-based PCI Fast Ethernet is bad, so I installed a PCI NIC that is working fine. I guess it's possible that the integrated sound has failed along with the NIC. I didn't check to see if the sound was working before the clean install of XP

I ran Belarc Advisor before the clean install & Belarc identifies the audio as Realtek AC'97.

Any sage advice gurus?

~Dave

Well, I should have waited to post I guess

I downloaded the Realtek AC'97 driver from Realtek.com & that worked fine.

Issue is resolved.