I recently installed Windows XP Home Edition SP2 over Vista Basic, and being the stupid person I am, I forgot to find drivers for my sound card. Thing is, there isn't any. When I go to add hardware and click "Scan for hardware changes", the device will first flash for a few seconds as a PCI device, then a Microsoft UAA High Definition Audio device. I've tried updating to SP3 to fix this issue, downloading the individual fixes for it from Microsoft, and done a ton of googling and yahooing for the right solution. Downloading the drivers from a manufacturer's website (which I am 90% sure is realtek) did nothing to help.

I downloaded a 'hotfix' from M$ as well on both the pages for the UAA to no avail. This is really driving me crazy, and I can't find a fix for it at all. Is buying a external sound card viable, and if so, what kind will do? And if it helps, I'm on a netbook without a CD drive, so any discs that need to be used will need to be mounted as ISO's.

Please help, and thanks so much.

what model brand pc is it. also high def audio device is realtech so it shoudl be fine.

3rd link down after accepting

http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloads/...&GetDown=false

Even after installing and restarting, it's the same thing.

I'm happy to report that after many googling attempts for the modified driver for SP3, I found it.

Thank arceus for uploading services.

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