it appears that after installing xp sp3, I lost my sound. Again, machine sees
the hardware but no drivers. Attemtpted to resinstall new Realtek driver but
installation failed (0xE0000227 error message). Any suggestions?

lag wrote:
> it appears that after installing xp sp3, I lost my sound. Again, machine sees
> the hardware but no drivers. Attemtpted to resinstall new Realtek driver but
> installation failed (0xE0000227 error message). Any suggestions?

http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/HD-Au...7-t198440.html

This is paraphrased from Asus Tech Support, for a similar problem with
onboard HDaudio.

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1) Go in safe mode [ Press F8 when the computer is booting ]

1a) [ Use the Device Manager for the following steps... ]

2) Disable the HD audio device under Sound Video Games
controllers, do not uninstall it here!

3) Disable under the system devices "Microsoft UAA bus driver for high
definition audio", do not uninstall it here!

4) Now uninstall the "Microsoft UAA bus driver for high definition audio"
(via this device manager in safe mode), the HD audio device will then
also be uninstalled automatically.

5) Install the latest driver for your motherboard.

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HTH,
Paul