re-installing sound drivers

[cloakster]

i want to re-install my on-board sound drivers to hopefully take away the crackling in the sound that i get. i wanted to know if its hard to do that and if someone could walk me through it.

thx in advance

cloaker

[sackynut]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

if you have a nforce 4 mobo go to nvidia.com and just get the new audio drivers, or if you have any nvidia mobo, if not find it on google.com. like intel.com, or maybe ati.com.

[cloakster]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

i know where to get the drivers from but i want to know how to re-install them

[sackynut]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

okay, depening on the type of driver, you can either just double click the EXE and install them, overriding the old ones. Or go to you control panel>add remove programs and uninstall the audio drivers, under Nvidia Drviers or something of the sort. Then restart, open the EXE and install, then reboot again and you should be good.

[cloakster]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

k thx i have Realtek AC97 on-board audio on a MSI RS480M2-IL

also in add/remove programs i have Realtek AC97 audio , would that be the driver?

[Talus]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

That would be it. Remove that first and reboot

Then when the computer boots up again, hit the 'cancel' button when it tries to install new drivers.

Then double click on the .exe file (e.g. WDM_A380.exe) for the new drivers you downloaded and reboot when it's done.

[cloakster]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

k thx a lot for helping me

[cloakster]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

also when u install the driver will the install wizard help u and is there anything i will need to do other than the stuff u do to install a game. i dont know much about computers, so i dont wanna end up being stuck at something.

[Talus]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

Yeah, there should be an install wizard. But there really shouldn't be any options that you have to choose from or anything. It will probably ask you to reboot when it's done, but that's about it.

[cloakster]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

so thats all u sure? i just really wanna know everything i can about this before i do it

[Talus]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

That's it.

Installing drivers is pretty much as simple as that.

[cloakster]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

k thx

[cloakster]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

so theres no setup that u have to do manually and is there anything technical that i will need to know?

[MonkMachine]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

No mate you'll be fine.

[sackynut]

Re: re-installing sound drivers

no real harm can come from it anyways, theres always the uninstall option, and if worse comes to worse, system restore. But youll be fine.