Gary AC97 is chipset specific as well as OS specific. HP site should have a setup disk for that board, else look at chip set ei VIA or others and check there site. JHust found one for Giga-byte board and it's over 18 meg size. Easier maybe to go into bios and disable onboard and plug in a new audio card. Al G Tel-Tek Electronics wrote: > > I use AC97 on the new Computer, with the XP OS. I know I can install a > separate Sound card on that and disable the built in one. > > -Ed- > > Ed Gaidies > Tel-Tek Electronics > Ontario-Canada > > teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > -----Original Message----- > From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary McCartney > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:35 PM > To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [TechAssist] Re: HP Pavilion model 6745CE, need AC97 audio > driver -Win ME > > I tried getting the driver off a Win ME cd but that didn't seem to help. > Maybe the sound chip is actually defective or something. I think I will > install a separate sound card as long as I can disable the built in > sound. This is ridiculas, why don't HP support their product? They > didn't even have the Win 98 drivers on their site for this AC97 sound. > Unless maybe reinstalling ME over top of the original install might load > the driver properly..... > > Gary McCartney > > McCartney Electronics > Guelph Ontario Canada > Est. 1984 > email: gary (at) number63.ca > > Ed Gaidies wrote: > > > > Gary; > > I have the Win ME CD...would it be on the CD? > > > > -Ed- > > > > Ed Gaidies > > Tel-Tek Electronics. > > Ontario-Canada > > > > teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary McCartney > > Sent: November 12, 2003 4:32 PM > > To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [TechAssist] HP Pavilion model 6745CE, need AC97 audio driver > > -Win ME > > > > I have a HP Pavilion model 6745CE, and require the 82801AA AC97 audio > > driver for Win ME. I have done Google search and found some drivers on > > drivers guide.com but they are all for win 98 and don't work on ME. I > > have also removed the driver from the system and rebooted. It finds > the > > same one again and it has the yellow exclamation mark in the device > > manager. Tried to change the IRQ it uses from 9 to 10 and still same > > problem. > > > > Does anyone have the install discs for this computer that I could get > > the audio driver off of? > > > > Thanks. > > -- > > > > Gary McCartney > > > > McCartney Electronics > > Guelph Ontario Canada > > Est. 1984 > > email: gary (at) number63.ca > > > > > ************************************************************************ > > ***** > > Classifieds! 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