P35-DS3R on-board audio problems!

manveruppd · 9 Feb 2008 at 15:31

Hi guys,

I'm using a Turtle Beach Montego card which I bought on MM for my sound, so I've always had the on-board audio switched off ("Azalia codec" set to disabled in the BIOS setup if I'm not mistaken). However, when I go into device manager, I see a yellow exclamation mark with "Audio Device on High Definition Audio Bus" next to it! Not only that, but Windows seems to have automatically installed a driver called cmudax3.sys for it, which is causing my system to BSOD when I run a particular game. I uninstalled the driver, rebooted, went into BIOS and CONFIRMED that "Azalia codec" was indeed set to "disabled" (IT WAS!!!), but when I booted back into Windows I got the Found New Hardware wizard prompting me to find drivers for ""Audio Device on High Definition Audio Bus" again!

I don't know why this is happening and it's driving me mad! Why the hell is this showing up when it's DISABLED THROUGH THE BIOS FFS??? Someone please help me nuke it the hell off my system!

ns400r · 9 Feb 2008 at 17:52

It is asking for the Microsoft UAA drivers.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/835221

manveruppd · 9 Feb 2008 at 21:24

I'm afraid I already installed that, and it's STILL showing up in Device Manager!

Anyway, the point is that I've disabled the thing in the BIOS - why is it appearing at all??

BUFF · 9 Feb 2008 at 21:36

can you not uninstall it in Device Manager?

manveruppd · 9 Feb 2008 at 22:06

It shows up again!

The problem is I suspect it's NOT my on-board sound at all, but some other device that I don't have drivers for - and I reinstalled every single piece of software that came with my pc just to be sure!

ns400r · 11 Feb 2008 at 01:52

Don't have an ATI 2xxx video card do you?

manveruppd · 11 Feb 2008 at 02:23

3850... do they have problems with the Montego? Or, worse, with the DS3? :confused:

manveruppd · 11 Feb 2008 at 02:29

Oh, btw, I should mention that I temporarily removed my Montego sound card because its driver was mucking things up, and re-enabled the on-board sound and installed the latest drivers for it... but that mystery-device STILL shows up on Device Manager, so whatever it is it's DEFINITELY not a sound card of any description!

ns400r · 11 Feb 2008 at 10:19

It is part of the video card.
Look on the ATI site for drivers.

If the link works, - http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/hdmiaudio-xp

manveruppd · 11 Feb 2008 at 10:26

That link says it's just for 29xx cards, are you sure mine falls in that category? I've already got the latest catalysts, shouldn't this be part of them?

manveruppd · 11 Feb 2008 at 13:52

Freaking hell, it worked! Thanks mate!

Don't know why Ati didn't bundle it with the Catalyst package though... :/

Now just to solve the BSODs caused by my Montego and the horrible microphone feedback I get... :rolleyes: