After a clean Win7 Pro instal, I began having audio crackling and drop outs. OK, I need to update my audio driver. Sure enough, I ran the device manager and then checked my mother board's web site and there was indeed an newer driver available. However, during the install, I BSODd.
Upon restart after the BSOD, all appeared to be normal, as if the driver did indeed install. Then, the next time I re-booted, my machine was showing I had no audio driver installed at all.
I went back to my mother board's web site, re-downloaded the latest driver and attempted to install again. This time, however, I cannon get the driver to install. I keep getting BSODs.
I have, at this point, rolled back to a restore point when I was on the initial audio driver and, yep, crackle and drop outs abound.
I guess my question is, how do I completely purge the old drivers completely so I can be assured I'm not conflicting? I have tried going into the control panel and uninstalling that way but, that method is leaving stuff behind. I'd like to completely purge so I can start with a fresh driver. I've read about "driver sweepers" but the general consensus on this site is they may do more harm than good.
My mother board is an Intel® DP67BG Extreme Series with an onboard Realtek digital (optical) audio chip.
I'm getting the drivers for it here.
Any help would be appreciated.
Upon restart after the BSOD, all appeared to be normal, as if the driver did indeed install. Then, the next time I re-booted, my machine was showing I had no audio driver installed at all.
I went back to my mother board's web site, re-downloaded the latest driver and attempted to install again. This time, however, I cannon get the driver to install. I keep getting BSODs.
I have, at this point, rolled back to a restore point when I was on the initial audio driver and, yep, crackle and drop outs abound.
I guess my question is, how do I completely purge the old drivers completely so I can be assured I'm not conflicting? I have tried going into the control panel and uninstalling that way but, that method is leaving stuff behind. I'd like to completely purge so I can start with a fresh driver. I've read about "driver sweepers" but the general consensus on this site is they may do more harm than good.
My mother board is an Intel® DP67BG Extreme Series with an onboard Realtek digital (optical) audio chip.
I'm getting the drivers for it here.
Any help would be appreciated.
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Dell XPS 400
- OS
- Windows 7 X64 Professional
- CPU
- Intel® Pentium D Dual Core 3.6GHZ
- Motherboard
- DELL Dimension 9150 MotherBoard DXP051 XPS400 FJ030
- Memory
- 4GB DDR2 PC2-5300
- Graphics Card(s)
- GeForce GT 440 (Fermi) 2GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16
- Sound Card
- ASUS XONAR DG 5.1 Channels PCI Interface Xonar DG
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2 X 23" Apple Cinema Display
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 X 1200p
- Hard Drives
- 250GB Intel® 510 Series SSD SATA 6G (w/TRIM) [500MB/s Reads]
1.0TB Western Digital Caviar Black SATA 6G 7200rpm 64MB Cache
- PSU
- 375 Watt Dell
- Case
- Dell XPS 400 BTX Case
- Cooling
- Dell XPS 400 Air Cooling
- Keyboard
- Logitech Illuminated Keyboard
- Mouse
- Logitech M705 Marathon
- Internet Speed
- +/- 9929 Kbps
- Other Info
- This machine was given to me when my dad bought a new computer. I keep throwing upgrades at it and it keeps on ticking. Think I've done everything to it that can be done outside a PSU upgrade so I can run an even BETTER GPU.
