No drivers for SoundMax AD1888.

[gabrielteixeira]

Hi everyone

I've been trying for a long time to install the drivers for the sound of my ASUS P5VD1-X, that uses the SoundMax AD1888 chipset with no success. I found many solutions for Windows Vista in the web, but no one worked for me. I'm using the build 6801 64 bit. BTW, the Asus site doesn't provides the drivers for Vista, only for XP, 32 or 64 bit. If anyone knows a hack to install XP drivers in the W7 64 bit I would be very glad to know.

Thanks in advance
Gabriel

 

[darkassain]

you cannot use the MS regular drivers??
that is the most ideal in these kinds of situations....

 

[gabrielteixeira]

Unfortunately it didn't work, that's why I'm looking for the drivers.

 

[echrada]

Have you read this post?

soundmax ad1888 drivers? - Vista Forums

 

[gabrielteixeira]

Yes, I read it and also didn´t work. Actually, the solution found by the user of that forum was purchase another sound card, and I´m not going to do this. I also tried the RealTek AC´97 driver but it only says "Windows x64 driver ( rtkvac64.sys ) not found". I think that most of these problems are related to the (very poor) x64 support of the sound chipset manufacturer. Next time I´ll be more carefull to select a better supported motherboard. This PC will be only for the Linux now (or the old x86 OS´s).

 

[gabrielteixeira]

Yes, I did it!

Well, after some work and lucky I got the sound working. I got the driver from here but this driver didn´t worked in the first time I installed it. In the second attempt it did work. What changed from the first to the second is because I installed the RealTek AC´97 drivers before and I launched the setup.exe in the compatibility mode with Windows XP. Anyway, this driver may break the boot-up, so I have boot in safety mode and remove it. That is annoying, but the sound working after almost 20 days of silence is good enought to me.

 

[NormCameron]

Yes, I did it!

Well, after some work and lucky I got the sound working. I got the driver from here but this driver didn´t worked in the first time I installed it. In the second attempt it did work. What changed from the first to the second is because I installed the RealTek AC´97 drivers before and I launched the setup.exe in the compatibility mode with Windows XP. Anyway, this driver may break the boot-up, so I have boot in safety mode and remove it. That is annoying, but the sound working after almost 20 days of silence is good enought to me.

Great and thanks for posting back with how you did it too. This is the info people need.

Norm

 

[gabrielteixeira]

Append to my last post.

When I boot up with this sound driver installed, I get a black screen, just after inserting the password and logging in. The solution was restart to the safety mode, remove the driver, boot up again and install back the driver. I know, that was annoying until today when I found that, when you get the black screen after the login, if you click around in the dark, it will show up a error message box (I can´t remember the message in it, I think it was something like "DSound UP not succeeded" or something like that). Click OK in the Message Box and the boot will resume normally. BTW, this error looks very bad since I can play Need for Speed Underground and music in the Windows Media Player normally, but the Flight Simulator X will be quiet . I still think that this driver is too buggy to be used in Windows 7, but it looks the best option to get, at least, some whispering from the PC. If anyone has a better solution, plz, tell me.

 

[Noel]

I had same problem with AD1888 but in 32 bit Win 7 (7000). Windows 7 installed driver for Soundmax and even updated it, but it didn't work at all. The problem was in driver number - 5.12.01.5290. I just replaced one file (smwdm.sys) from Asus Win XP driver pack for this card (5.12.01.3665) and rebooted the system. So I have sound now.

 

[kinaton]

I have tried all the suggestions here, and can't get sound on my machine at all... anyone have a working set of drivers please.

XP Drivers work in xp and vista.. but not windows 7 (Worse OS yet....)

Motherboard is asus k8v-mx

 

[gabrielteixeira]

I have tried all the suggestions here, and can't get sound on my machine at all... anyone have a working set of drivers please.

XP Drivers work in xp and vista.. but not windows 7 (Worse OS yet....)

Motherboard is asus k8v-mx

Do you get a error message when installing the driver or the driver installs without problems but you don't get the sound? Are you using the Windows 7 x64?

 

[kinaton]

Nope no error on install...

Do get "no IDC audio codec" or something along those lines.. can't remember...

 

[gabrielteixeira]

Nope no error on install...

Do get "no IDC audio codec" or something along those lines.. can't remember...

I'll be honest, the way I installed the driver on my machine (it is x64, I don't know your system yet), it doesn't work flawless at all. Flight Simulator X still have no sound and I noticed that GTA3 mutes and becomes very slow after some 1 or 2 hours of game play. Only Need for Speed Underground and the Windows Media Player have being playing correctly by now. May be this problem is affecting more you, and I don't know the extent yet. Also I don't know your build. Mine is 6801.

 

[oozair]

soundmax audio no sound

hi,iv got the same problem as Noel
i have a motherboard asus p4p800sx
windows 7 installed and updated the driver but there's no sound
am using soundmax integrated digital audio
when i test the tone,it says theres no sound
Plz help me
thxz

 

[gabrielteixeira]

What's your build and system (x64 or x86)?

 

[gxdata]

Soundmax 5.12.01.3665 works on Asus P4P800-SX

After seeing the hint in this thread, I tried every (32-bit) driver for SoundMax with my Asus computer (Asus P4P800-SX m/b, on which I can run Soundmax 5.12.01.3665 with Windows XP SP3 32-bit boot).

Under Win7 32-bit, I found the trick was to do this:

1. Remove all previous sound drivers (I had tried Realtech, other AC97, several SoundMax versions). Reboot.
2. Go to Windows Update, and disable automatic download and install (otherwise, your work may be undone by an automatic Windows Update of the carefully-installed driver).
3. Go to Asus website, search for the motherboard and download the SoundMax drivers for Windows XP - for me, the one originally used was version 5.12.01.3665 - don't use anything more recent.
4. Unpack the ZIP file, find the setup.exe, right-click and go to Properties and mark it as Window XP compatible. Then run the executable, reboot, etc.

Prior to doing all this, I had simply copied the smwdm.sys file (565Kb) into c:\windows\system32\drivers\ (overwriting whatever was there) and rebooted - but it didn't work for me.

Sound seems OK, so far - though on first run of SoundMax (UI) I did get a message about a missing codec. I haven't resolved that, but haven't seen that message for a while.

 

[bishy]

thanks!
i was just about to give up on windows seven due to not being able to get sound to work, but your method of changing the setup file to compatability mode works a treat! got sound fine now!
cheers!

Asus vintage AE1 Barebones
Athlon 64 3000+
2GB Ram
80GB sata harddrive

 

[peteris]

I have a Fujitsu Siemens motherboard with Soundmax AD 1888 audio on it and I am unable to find a working driver for it. I tried all suggested solutions above but none of them worked for me. I used 5.12.01.3665, started setup in XP compatibility mode, seemed quite OK, but then I got the message "Driver not found ! Reboot your system and run this setup again !" I tried 3 times, maybe that was not enough.
Any new idea ? Thanks

 

[sirdeeleon]

i had the same problem...

i install the drive using compatible win xp but when finish it said.
"Drive not Found try to restart and install again"...
i will try others drives.
thx..

 

[kodatel]

Is working now

Thank Noel, I have the asus P5p800 and the sound didn´t work, but I do your procedure, copy the old file, and work, everything is workning now

Thank again, because I lost so many time looking for the driver for AD188 for win7



PD, sorry for my English is so bad