Audio Driver for P5S- MX SE

[crowO7]

I installed Windows 7 on my computer having the said motherboard. I have installed almost all drivers except the Multimedia Audio Controller and Video Controller..during my past tries on XP i just downloaded the drivers from the ASUS Teck site but unfortunately there are no Windows 7 drivers for the said motherboard..where can i look for them..

uhm, there's also a problem with the Audio driver, though i successfuly installed a AC 97' Audio Codec from Realtek there are no sounds coming out of my speakers so i uninstall it and still continuing to find the right driver for it.

PLEASE HELP

 

[stormy13]

crowO7, welcome to the Seven Forums.

According to the specs for your motherboard,

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. - Motherboards - ASUS P5S-MX SE

you need the Realtek HD driver, not the AC'97. You can find links to it here,

http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/3756-latest-realtek-hd-audio-driver-version.html

Assuming you're using the onboard SIS video, I would try the Windows 7 "SiS UniVGA5 graphics driver" directly from SiS,

http://www.sis.com/download/download_step1.php

which looks like it should work with yours.

 

[crowO7]

im gonna try your suggestion now.. THANK YOU for your help

 

[crowO7]

i've attached a print screen picture of the installation saying that it is complete but the audio icon on the lower right of the desktop does not agree with it

 

[stormy13]

Does it change after the requested restart?

 

[crowO7]

sadly not...nothing changed

 

[crowO7]

i've attached a picture. .in this picture ive restarted the computer after installing the driver using the ZIP file, and now ive tried installing the driver using the EXE file...but as the picture shows the there was an error, "No Driver was supported..." but ive checked the device manager and looked at the properties of the "unknown device(Audio controller)"..

PLEASE HELP up until now i still dont have the right driver for this hardware.

 

[stormy13]

Can you pleases post what it shows for the hardware IDs for the multimedia controller, just to confirm what it has.

Also what does it show under "display adapters", as from that screen shot Aero is quite clearly working and yet Device Manager is showing an unknown video controller as well.

 

[crowO7]

here are the requested pictures, as of now, im downloading the other EXE file from realteck which has around 83MB..
as for as display adapters, i have NVIDIA.

 

[Dwarf]

Following the instructions here http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73420-hardware-identification.html and using the values of 8086 for the vendor and 24D5 for the device reveals that you have SoundMAX audio on your motherboard.

 

[stormy13]

Following the instructions here http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73420-hardware-identification.html and using the values of 8086 for the vendor and 24D5 for the device reveals that you have SoundMAX audio on your motherboard.

Well isn't that nice. Asus lists it as Realtek HD and has drivers for it, and yet the IDs show it to be Soundmax. Now with that said using the IDs it looks like it is the Soundmax 1888 audio, which from what I can find at the moment there is not now and probably never will be a Windows 7 (or Vista for that matter) driver for it.

I did manage to find this Asus board,

http://www.asus.gr/product.aspx?P_ID=neVcvuSgEUZcO3rK&content=download

that has the same Soundmax audio on it, as well as a driver for it. I downloaded and checked the INF in it and it does have the same IDs as what crowO7 is showing in those screen shots. Short of getting a sound card that has Windows 7 support you can try it with the last XP driver from the above Asus link. Make sure to uninstall all the Realtek drivers first before installing.

It may also take compatibility mode,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html

or manually installing the driver,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/97061-driver-install-device-manager.html

to get it to install.

 

[crowO7]

our teacher taught that to us during one of his lectures. sadly there are no soundmax drivers in the internet which is compatible for my motherboard...as i recall, i can also use the HD Audio driver for my motherboard because before i reformatted my PC its driver was from the ASUSTek site and it is HD Audio Driver..

 

[crowO7]

I've try uninstalling the 97' AC driver..but im not sure if it is completely Uninstall..how can i be sure that i have successfully uninstall it..are there files to be deleted in the SYSTEM32 folder?

 

[crowO7]

an error occurred during installing the soundmax driver...

 

[crowO7]

Following the instructions here http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73420-hardware-identification.html and using the values of 8086 for the vendor and 24D5 for the device reveals that you have SoundMAX audio on your motherboard.

Well isn't that nice. Asus lists it as Realtek HD and has drivers for it, and yet the IDs show it to be Soundmax. Now with that said using the IDs it looks like it is the Soundmax 1888 audio, which from what I can find at the moment there is not now and probably never will be a Windows 7 (or Vista for that matter) driver for it.

I did manage to find this Asus board,

http://www.asus.gr/product.aspx?P_ID=neVcvuSgEUZcO3rK&content=download

that has the same Soundmax audio on it, as well as a driver for it. I downloaded and checked the INF in it and it does have the same IDs as what crowO7 is showing in those screen shots. Short of getting a sound card that has Windows 7 support you can try it with the last XP driver from the above Asus link. Make sure to uninstall all the Realtek drivers first before installing.

It may also take compatibility mode,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/316-compatibility-mode.html

or manually installing the driver,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/97061-driver-install-device-manager.html

to get it to install.

I am fond of manually installing drivers, but for this problem it always shows that there is no present software in the source folder i specified. .i've also tried compatibility mode but it did not solve my problem...so as of now i still don't have a working sound driver

 

[toshikijima]

here are the requested pictures, as of now, im downloading the other EXE file from realteck which has around 83MB..
as for as display adapters, i have NVIDIA.

Hi crow.. i just want to help...

according to your Hardware ID (PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24D5&SUBSYS_24D58086) in the picture, maybe your audio driver is:

"CMICHX.INF"

C-Media 9738 AC/97 Codec
%CMI9738.DeviceDesc%=AC97, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24D5&SUBSYS_24D58086

I found the driver in here: C-media CMI9739 Audio Driver UDA 039 or C-Media CMI973x/9761A Audio Driver (click on "Sound" section to download)

but i don't know if the driver is compatible with Win7..

 

[crowO7]

i've downloaded both files. the first one was installed but still a no for the driver. and the second one, an error occurred while i'm installing it, the error was like "no driver found..."

sadly i think im going back to windowsXP

 

[toshikijima]

How about the C-media drivers in this thread ..

The two previous driver version above:

UDA039_WDM.zip
DriverVer=11/04/2003,5.12.01.0039

cmedia973x.zip
DriverVer=08/26/2004,5.12.01.0046

version of the drivers mentioned by PeterBoard:

UDA051_build01_Logo51.3_Standard_.rar
DriverVer=06/22/2006,5.12.01.0051

"oem3.inf"
CMI97_5.12.01.0051.zip
DriverVer=06/22/2006,5.12.01.0051

Note: all versions of drivers have the same Hardware ID:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24D5&SUBSYS_24D58086

Strange thing.. when i look up your mobo specifications,
i'ts say your audio is "High Definition Audio, Realtek ALC662 6 -Channel CODEC"
then the Hardware ID should be like this for example:

HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_XXXX&SUBSYS_XXXXXXXX

(X: numbers & letters)

but according to your Hardware ID in Device Manager on the picture before is
"PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_24D5&SUBSYS_24D58086" = C-Media CMI9738 AC97.

If you're still stuck, maybe you should go back to Windows XP & see Hardware ID once again to ensure that the Hardware ID is the same as in Windows 7 ..
if not, then I don't know what causes it ..

 

[crowO7]

i dont know if this might help, well i reinstalled windows7 OS, then downloaded service pack 1..now when i troubleshoot my audio driver it says C-MEdia AC97'...should i go through with its installation or not?

 

[stormy13]

Based on what toshikijima posted above and with what Windows is now identifying it as, I would go with one of the C-media drivers that he linked too.