ac97 drivers on vista 64

Gerard · 23 Mar 2007 at 11:27

Seriously how the hell are you meant to install these? Every time i try to install them a red box pops up teling me that windows can't verify the publisher, i click install anyway and roughly 10 seconds later it comes up again saying the same thing. I musta clicked install anyway maybe 30 times this morning and same thing every time.

I disabled uac and turned off the driver notification thing and it still pops up. :confused:

smsmasters · 23 Mar 2007 at 11:28

Gerard said:
Seriously how the hell are you meant to install these? Every time i try to istal them a red box pops up teling me that windows can't verify the publisher, i click install anyway and roughly 10 seconds later it comes up again saying the same thing. I musta clicked install anyway maybe 30 times this morning and same thing every time.

I disabled uac and turned off the driver notification thing and it still pops up.

Press F8 on bootup and select disable unsigned driver checks or something like that...

Gerard · 23 Mar 2007 at 11:36

Done that as well same thing, that bloody box appears even though it shouldn't be, this is really getting on my nerves. Why is it so hard to install a damn sound driver??

Fr0dders · 23 Mar 2007 at 11:52

are you on X64 or x86 ?

Gerard · 23 Mar 2007 at 11:57

vista 64

Fr0dders · 23 Mar 2007 at 11:59

try this

from a command prompt

bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS

then reboot.

Gerard · 23 Mar 2007 at 12:03

Still doing it even with that :confused:

Fr0dders · 23 Mar 2007 at 12:07

try and load some beta drivers for your graphics card

ie unsigned ones

and see if the problem is the fact the drivers are unsigned or if its those drivers dont work.

something daft already!! · 23 Mar 2007 at 12:27

I have the same sound card and *had* the same issue, click yes, wait a while, click yes, wait a while, click yes, wait a while etc etc. I found by uninstalling older dirvers, rebooting with no audio driver installed then reinstalling the drivers, worked fine. Are you using the latest ones from the site? 12th of march I think is the date. Downloaded them night before last and did the business.

No need to disable anything, my Vista runs as it was first installed, UAC on and unassigned driver support off. There *should* be no reason why these dont install and work

Fr0dders · 23 Mar 2007 at 12:30

i thought it might be crap drivers

Gerard · 23 Mar 2007 at 12:38

Ended up going to shuttles website and downloaded some drivers which are meant to work with the sn25p, "via envy" something or other. Ive now got sound working, albeit basic sound. Im not able to use my spdif for example

something daft already!! · 23 Mar 2007 at 12:49

Gerard said:
Ended up going to shuttles website and downloaded some drivers which are meant to work with the sn25p, "via envy" something or other. Ive now got sound working, albeit basic sound. Im not able to use my spdif for example

Before realtek released their driver, I used Via 64 bit version. This worked with S/Pdif. You need to go into sound options, select speakers and click the "custom" tab and tick the box for s/pdif. Its somewhere on those tabs. You may have better luck with the VIA ones. DO you know the number of your chip? Its very very small and the writing is very hard to read, but it should be something like cm658, this may help identify which driver to use

Gerard · 23 Mar 2007 at 13:21

Theres a few via chips i can see on the mobo, can't really see anything that matches those numbers though, and seeing as its a shuttle i can only see so much of the mobo.

Suppose i could just try different driver revisions, what driver revision was it you used?

something daft already!! · 23 Mar 2007 at 14:17

Gerard said:
Theres a few via chips i can see on the mobo, can't really see anything that matches those numbers though, and seeing as its a shuttle i can only see so much of the mobo.

Suppose i could just try different driver revisions, what driver revision was it you used?

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=2&CatID=2450&SubCatID=104

These are for 64 bit xp and not Vista, but they were all I could get at first and gave me sound output through s/pdif. I would recomend the realtek ones, if you can get them working. Good luck!