Dear Anyone.
Mods, feel free to move this, I'm a noob, didn't know where to put it (anatomical suggestions will be considered....!)
I've got Windows XP 64 bit. I used that because I've got 32-bit XP software I love using that HATES Windows 7 Emulation mode, it just smiles at you and crashes in that! Thing IS - I can't get my High Definition Audio Codec working.
Now on my old Windows hard drive it comes up as IDT High Definition Audio Codec, but it got automatically installed when I bought the computer and I don't have an installation disc, it would've been 32-bit anyway. On my Windows 7 disc, which the software hates, it says it's using Realtek. On my Windows XP 64 bit disc (3 separate discs, I just take 'em out of the tower and put 'em in again!) there's just an exclamation mark by it. I've tried no end of downloaded driver installation packages, mainly by Realtek cos I can't find many IDT ones to try, and it just tells me it can't find any hardware, or the hardware isn't working. I know the hardware's fine because it works like a dream on my Windows 7 drive, which I'm using right now!
At one point I had an installer that said I had to have at LEAST SP 1 installed on my XP 64 bit drive. So I found SP2 (remember the 'at least!) and installed that, tried to instally the High Definition Audio Codec again and it STILL said I had to have SP1 at least installed - it wasn't picking up that I'd just installed SP2. Yes, I'd restarted the computer.
That left me absolutely out of ideas. I've got a Foxconn 2ADA mobo with a sandybridge processor, if that helps anyone, and 6gig. of RAM, which was the main reason for 64 bit XP, so I could use it all.
If anyone's got any ideas how I could get noise out of my 64-bit XP drive, they'd have my eternal gratitude. Right now, I'm a disabled composer who can't compose - which, according to those who listen to my stuff, might well be a bonus but sure is frustrating to me personally!
Re. the SP1 thing - I couldn't find a copy of SP1, just SP2. Would SP1 have stuff in it that's missing from SP2, would that be the reason the installation software didn't recognise it? I've zero idea on that front, just vaguely guessing. Last question on the above.
The mobo's PCIe slots for soundcards. Would ANY PCIe soundcard be OK, or are there differences between 32-64 bit soundcards? I've tried googling 'Soundcards that work with XP 64-bit' and only get a short list of cards costing several hundreds of pounds (OUCH!!). But I've seen much more reasonably priced PCIe cards (like, £30) but have no idea if they'd work with 64 bit or not and the vendors don't seem too sure either.
Sorry for all the questions, just stumped.
Yours hopefully
Chris.
Mods, feel free to move this, I'm a noob, didn't know where to put it (anatomical suggestions will be considered....!)
I've got Windows XP 64 bit. I used that because I've got 32-bit XP software I love using that HATES Windows 7 Emulation mode, it just smiles at you and crashes in that! Thing IS - I can't get my High Definition Audio Codec working.
Now on my old Windows hard drive it comes up as IDT High Definition Audio Codec, but it got automatically installed when I bought the computer and I don't have an installation disc, it would've been 32-bit anyway. On my Windows 7 disc, which the software hates, it says it's using Realtek. On my Windows XP 64 bit disc (3 separate discs, I just take 'em out of the tower and put 'em in again!) there's just an exclamation mark by it. I've tried no end of downloaded driver installation packages, mainly by Realtek cos I can't find many IDT ones to try, and it just tells me it can't find any hardware, or the hardware isn't working. I know the hardware's fine because it works like a dream on my Windows 7 drive, which I'm using right now!
At one point I had an installer that said I had to have at LEAST SP 1 installed on my XP 64 bit drive. So I found SP2 (remember the 'at least!) and installed that, tried to instally the High Definition Audio Codec again and it STILL said I had to have SP1 at least installed - it wasn't picking up that I'd just installed SP2. Yes, I'd restarted the computer.
That left me absolutely out of ideas. I've got a Foxconn 2ADA mobo with a sandybridge processor, if that helps anyone, and 6gig. of RAM, which was the main reason for 64 bit XP, so I could use it all.
If anyone's got any ideas how I could get noise out of my 64-bit XP drive, they'd have my eternal gratitude. Right now, I'm a disabled composer who can't compose - which, according to those who listen to my stuff, might well be a bonus but sure is frustrating to me personally!
Re. the SP1 thing - I couldn't find a copy of SP1, just SP2. Would SP1 have stuff in it that's missing from SP2, would that be the reason the installation software didn't recognise it? I've zero idea on that front, just vaguely guessing. Last question on the above.
The mobo's PCIe slots for soundcards. Would ANY PCIe soundcard be OK, or are there differences between 32-64 bit soundcards? I've tried googling 'Soundcards that work with XP 64-bit' and only get a short list of cards costing several hundreds of pounds (OUCH!!). But I've seen much more reasonably priced PCIe cards (like, £30) but have no idea if they'd work with 64 bit or not and the vendors don't seem too sure either.
Sorry for all the questions, just stumped.
Yours hopefully
Chris.
Finding drivers for older hardware and operating systems is difficult, however it seems Microsoft keeps a large catalogue of driver software available online.
Updates for the IDT sound drivers for all versions of Windows can be found here.
The last IDT sound driver update for WinXP can be found here. This will download a CAB file.
There's a couple of ways to install the driver:
1. Double click the CAB file and see if WinXP will automatically install the driver.
If that doesn't work:
2.Try unzipping the CAB file using a file extraction tool like 7Zip.
Extract the file:
it will extract the files to a folder called "20421219_22625247a0c033591712eb36044a0185acd8280a"
Locate the x64 folder, then double click the stacsv64.exe file and see if the driver installs.
or if the above doesn't work
3. Open "device manager" from control panel and locate the sound hardware, it may have a question or exclamation mark indicating there is no driver installed. Right click on the sound hardware and select "properties" then select the "driver" tab then select "update driver".
Then select "browse my computer for driver software" then make sure you have the "include subfolders" box ticked and select "browse" and navigate to the folder where you unzipped the driver software and select the x64 folder and hopefully WinXP will install the driver.
After installing the driver you may need to restart the computer.
Updates for the IDT sound drivers for all versions of Windows can be found here.
The last IDT sound driver update for WinXP can be found here. This will download a CAB file.
There's a couple of ways to install the driver:
1. Double click the CAB file and see if WinXP will automatically install the driver.
If that doesn't work:
2.Try unzipping the CAB file using a file extraction tool like 7Zip.
Extract the file:
it will extract the files to a folder called "20421219_22625247a0c033591712eb36044a0185acd8280a"
Locate the x64 folder, then double click the stacsv64.exe file and see if the driver installs.
or if the above doesn't work
3. Open "device manager" from control panel and locate the sound hardware, it may have a question or exclamation mark indicating there is no driver installed. Right click on the sound hardware and select "properties" then select the "driver" tab then select "update driver".
Then select "browse my computer for driver software" then make sure you have the "include subfolders" box ticked and select "browse" and navigate to the folder where you unzipped the driver software and select the x64 folder and hopefully WinXP will install the driver.
After installing the driver you may need to restart the computer.
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