DS3 onboard sound issues

africanshox · 10 Oct 2006 at 08:54

Tried installing the onboard sound drivers and the system always prompts me that microsoft bus driver should be loaded before installing Realtek HD audio driver..this is despite having downloaded the latest one from the Gigabyte site

anyone know what im doing wrong?

africanshox · 11 Oct 2006 at 12:44

anyone? i really need help on this

ilh · 11 Oct 2006 at 17:39

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/...rboard&ProductID=2314&ProductName=GA-965P-DS3

In the Audio section it has 2 downloads, I believe the bus driver it's on about is the first download as it says next to it, install it first, then the 1 below it.

africanshox · 11 Oct 2006 at 19:15

i have done exactly that and the systems has rebooted after instaling the drivers however it seems that i still can find any audio devices

FatRakoon · 12 Oct 2006 at 13:35

I assume you have it enabled in the BIOS ?

FWIW, I have found this board to be the most useless pile of junk for trying to get any of my Cards running on it properly, so, I am stuck with the awful onboard junk that I dont rate at all highly

hyper_piper45 · 12 Oct 2006 at 13:46

I had the same problem, this is the solution i found.

Nevermind, problem solved. for anyone else with problems see below.

1 After Downloading the latest HD Audio Driver, run setup.exe and then reboot (setup.exe will install kb888111xpsp2.exe patch for windows xp SP2 automatically)

2 restart your machine

3 if your audio still not work, Right click at My computer, select manage, at left panel select "Device manager",

4 go to "System Device", you'll see yellow mark on the device named "PCI Device", right click at the "PCI Device", select update driver

5 select your Realtek HD audio driver path and go to Directoty "WDM" such as c:\driver\audio\HDAudio\WDM and then click open

6 Windows will install Microsoft UAA Driver , and install your HD Audio driver automatically

7 reboot your machine again

8 enjoy your cool music

FatRakoon · 12 Oct 2006 at 15:10

For me, its not the MS UUA Driver thats the problem. I also have to use this driver with the P5GD1 Motherboard, and so its nothing new for me.

What is the issue, is simply that the onboard sound, while fairly good quality, is also struggling when I am doing any disk accessing. This could be the disk controlers problem as I have found that the whoel system is a pile of rubbish and poor slow, but everythign I have gone through checks out as fine, from the drivers to the DMA & other BIOS settings, its just a fowl PC overall.

But then, even other soundcards that I have, simply dont play nicely either, so WTF is going on?

To be honest, I dont rate this motherboard at all. The other Intel boards that I have also have this issue to be honest though... They are fowl compared to AMD Boards I have.