Please Help! HP Pavilion zd8000 Audio Driver  

Hey all!
Had my zd8000 on OS XP until oct 22. now that i've upgraded i've lost my audio driver, windows update has tried to install it but it wont. I've extracted the contents, manually installed them myself... rebooted and it just wont work.

This is not a hardware issue =D

Info on my driver
PCI\VEN_10B9&DEV_5451&SUBSYS_0024103C&REV_02
PCI\VEN_10B9&DEV_5451&SUBSYS_0024103C
PCI\VEN_10B9&DEV_5451&CC_040100
PCI\VEN_10B9&DEV_5451&CC_0401

Now I was reading on this and many many people have having the same issue... Given this driver info a person on these forums "baarod" came up with this:

"This is the most ridiculous example of OEM re-branding ever. Seems that HP, who claims to be the manufacturer of this machine, bought the chipset from ALi, AKA Acer Labs, Inc. and to prevent any Acer (a competitor in the laptop market) branding, had Conexant license the part so they could then buy it from them. Note the PCI Database listing compared to your vendor and device codes: PCI Vendor and Device Lists

So HERE is the real driver: a bit of rebranded ALi code with a Conexant inf...
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/561353/X8...pt-7738356.cab"


now he seemed to figure it all out but that link is dead. I've tried getting a hold of him to no avail.

I'm dieing without sound! if you have any knowledge you could shed on me I would greatly appreciate it!

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I'm having he same problem, zd8000 to Windows 7 = no audio

Thanks I'll check those out :)

having same issue i cant find a fix ive done everything google search and everything zd8000 64bit windows 7 does anyone have it working on 32bit windows 7?

Well, mine is working now. Had my friend look at it (has a computer degree) he basically said he did a clean install of Vista, installed the drivers, and then went back to W7.

Granted not everyone has access to Vista, but that's what he did.

lol i have a copy of everything so put 64 bit vista on the computer first than upgrade to 64bit windows 7? did you find any issue or is everything working right without having to login with f8 and disableing drive signatures? btw i have the hp zd8000