Realtek AC 97 drivers, no sound

[IcyLava]

Well, I don't think any drivers are compatible with it for some reason. I'll settle for that. Thank you to everyone who tried to help me with this! It's an oooold dino anyway. Now, I have heard about "external audio cards"; would any of that be of help to me? If anybody can comment about that, I'd be willing to add it on there. Thanks again everyone to tried helping me!
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I did download some Realtek AC 97 drivers for an ooooold laptop I updated to Windows 7. Looks like the mic works on the laptop, but there is no sound at all from the speaker. In audio settings, Windows tells me, "In line not ready". Windows seems to think those are the right drivers though, I just can't get any sound. I have looked in many places for these drivers, most are defunct...But I did find some. Thing is I still can't get sound. If anyone knows of any sure fire way to get them working again, I'd be grateful. They worked on Windows XP..haven't worked on VISTA or 7. 32 bit operating system. Hp Pavillion ZE4560us. I don't expect too much out of the old laptop, seeing as it only supports modern firefox, but sound working would be nice.
Thanks to anyone who responds. Any information extra that's needed...I can give it.

 

[AddRAM]

Post a snip of Device Manager.

 

[IcyLava]

Alright. It's booting a little slowly today. I'll show you when I can.

 

[IcyLava]

Kk. I've just got to upload these pictures.

 

[IcyLava]

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[IcyLava]

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[erpster4]

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those drivers (5.10.0.5890) are SO outdated for Windows 7 that they're really for use under Win2000/XP only.

you need to obtain Windows 7 based Realtek AC97 audio drivers from the Realtek web site [look for "Vista/Win7 (32/64 bits) Driver only (ZIP file)" on the downloads page].
The latest version for Vista/Win7 is 6.0.1.6305 (released 9/7/2009). uninstall the old AC97 audio drivers first, reboot and then install the new audio drivers [and click Continue Anyway or click YES or OK to accept unsigned drivers if necessary].

 

[IcyLava]

Ohh, thank you erpster! ..Yeah, I suppose those must be too old... Those should work better. I'll have to try those tomorrow, and I'll post back.

 

[IcyLava]

The driver installs but it tells me "device unable to start", error 10. It seems like the drivers themselves would work...but something is wrong, I suppose. The sound worked fine before I jumped to vista to 7. Hasn't worked since XP.

 

[IcyLava]

Alright...on a restart, Windows says that "there's a problem with the driver"

 

[IcyLava]

And the other message I get if I try to install the modern 2009 realtek drivers...(Just for more info, I did get this error with any driver I tried.)

 

[IcyLava]

The driver is indeed installed though...just device cannot start error 10...Windows says, "Device mot digitally signed" in driver detaild

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

Hi IcyLava,

could you please update your computer specs so that we can assist you further and they seem to be a bit incorrect, for example you say that you have a PC/Desktop but we can see in Device Manager that you have an entry called Battery.

Thanks!

 

[IcyLava]

Yes, you're right. I've fixed them so that they reflect the lappie's specs.

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

Yes, you're right. I've fixed them so that they reflect the lappie's specs.

Well I had hoped it would have helped us here to better solve your issue but it seems that your laptop is older than 10 years resulting in that HP deletes everything related to the product

 

[IcyLava]

Yes, you're right. I've fixed them so that they reflect the lappie's specs.

Well I had hoped it would have helped us here to better solve your issue but it seems that your laptop is older than 10 years resulting in that HP deletes everything related to the product

Well...*this* is pretty accurate. Idk how much that would help though :/

 

[BorisTheAnimal]

Yes, you're right. I've fixed them so that they reflect the lappie's specs.

Well I had hoped it would have helped us here to better solve your issue but it seems that your laptop is older than 10 years resulting in that HP deletes everything related to the product

Well...*this* is pretty accurate. Idk how much that would help though :/

Yeah I was more thinking about receiving drivers and stuff like that.

For example usually you would only get the AC 97 drivers from HP. rather than going directly to Realtek.

Did some searching and found that in XP the laptop used something called "Conexant audio", have you checked if there would be something similar for W7?

 

[IcyLava]

Well...

Alright...on a restart, Windows says that "there's a problem with the driver"

Well...now that you say that I looked it up../there is *a* conexant driver for it. Which is weird because windows always thought it had a realtek ac 97...I have found entries for that too. The newest driver is 2003 for the conexant. I will try that anyway. Never know I guess. Is it actually possible Windows was wrong?

 

[IcyLava]

Alright...on a restart, Windows says that "there's a problem with the driver"

Nooe...it must inseed have realtek drivers. I'm not sure why both would appear. The installer displays none of the hardware I have (when it asks me just which one I have) just blank box there. Idk why this is so dofficult for it.

 

[IcyLava]

I really appreciate everyone trying to help me with this! I don't think anything is compatible with its audio drivers now, because I don't know, it just doesn't seem to work with anything. I have heard about external audio cards, would any of that help here? I don't know anything about that