Download the free standing installer:

[url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B0C7136D-5EBB-413B-89C9-CB3D06D12674&displaylang=en[/url]

This business about the driver issue with SP1 seems to me to be a bit
overdone. You may just have to reinstall a few drivers.

"These drivers do not follow our guidelines for driver installation and as a
result, some beta participants who were using Windows Vista and updated to
Service Pack 1 reported issues with these devices. Because the issue was
with the way the drivers were installed and not the drivers themselves, the
solution was simply to reinstall the drivers."

[url]http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/02/04/announcing-the-rtm-of-windows-vista-sp1.aspx[/url]

I had to reinstall my Synaptics Touchpad drivers.

You could do the same with your Realtek drivers.

Have a go at it.



"180pilot" <180pilot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:58356050-4ABB-4C94-A269-BEC80C788514@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> But, Microsoft says you need newer version then 6.0.1.6242 from Realtek.
> The
> only one I saw on Realtek site, I just downloaded is 6.0.1.5591, and
> Update
> won't let me have SP1???????
>
> "Henry Bobenslob" wrote:
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>>
>> "Cal Bear '66" <x1x1x1@x1x1x1.org> wrote in message
>> news:548C2FEA-5509-4B5D-AC11-9F965DFA3841@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>> > New Realtek HD Audio Drivers -- ver. 1.90 -- 31 March 2007:
>> >[/color]
>>
>> It is now April 2008. Either your post is out of date, or you entered
>> the
>> wrong date?
>>
>>[/color][/color]