Date: 09/24/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: software

I recently formatted my harddisk and reinstalled Windows on my PC. Everything is running just fine, only the audio driver is giving me headaches.

The device manager tells me the "audioncontroller for multimedia" is missing. I have a SiS 7012 audio device and got drivers for it without a problem from the 'net. I tried three different sources, beginning of course with sis.com, but it just won't install. Windows tells me it doesn't find the correct software and when I install it manually from the file, the setup is interrupted by two failure messages:

"-536870397" and then "Fail to install audio driver for Windows XP. Setup will exit."

I already surfed around for answers and got told to install the chipset drivers for my motherboard first. They worked like a charm. But the audiodriver still won't install. Anyone got any ideas?

Crossposted to tech_support and computerhelp

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