sundewzer
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Right now I have windows 7 RC 64 up and running on my Alienware Aurora M9700 laptop with dual nvidia gforce go 7900 gs 512mb video cards.
Issue 1:
After install no sound. I tried every driver I could find most wouldn't install the ones that would didn't help. Tried old driver with compatability trouble shooting, nothing. Read that updates would fix problem and that they added Soundmax drivers. Updated, went to devcie manager, update drivers on "Multimedia Audio Controller", Cant find anything. Also in device manager there were two more unknow item, they are gone now but I think they were base system or something along those lines. Also when I go to customize taskbar "SMax4.exe" is there and I don't know why. As far as I can tell I uninstalled it.
When I use the drivers that use to work when I was running xp32, it runs install and at the end it says problem starting streamci.dll (three time), restart computer and get "No ADI codec driver is installed". Icon shows up in system tray but says "No SoundMAX audio present you cannot use SoundMax Control Panel" coming from a 32 bit system I didn't expect this one to work anyways. So I uninstall it.
When I try intalling vista 64 driver I get smwdm.sys not found, I found a set of driver with smwdm.sys included, moved to to the right folder and I get "the audio driver files do not support your computer hardware." I also tryed using the smwdm.sys from the old 32bit drivers, same problem.
Then I tried going around the install, went to update, choose, have disk, ADIHdAud.inf (tried 3 differnt ones with sizes of 36k, 296k, and 329k), installs "SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio" This device cannot start (code 10).
Issue 2:
This one is a trip, so everything works but the sound. I go to nvidia and download driver (I also tried the ones from windows update). Install works, restart, and after starting window screen the screen goes blank, not black but blank like it looses power. Now the weird part, if I hit the power button and put the laptop in sleep mode and then turn it back on everything come up great except now the keyboard doesn't work at all, no numlock, windows button, nothing. Now if I go to device manager it say "PCI standard ISA bridge" has a error, go to properties and it say previous instance is still in memory (Code 38)
So I am at an impass, please help me.
Casey
Issue 1:
After install no sound. I tried every driver I could find most wouldn't install the ones that would didn't help. Tried old driver with compatability trouble shooting, nothing. Read that updates would fix problem and that they added Soundmax drivers. Updated, went to devcie manager, update drivers on "Multimedia Audio Controller", Cant find anything. Also in device manager there were two more unknow item, they are gone now but I think they were base system or something along those lines. Also when I go to customize taskbar "SMax4.exe" is there and I don't know why. As far as I can tell I uninstalled it.
When I use the drivers that use to work when I was running xp32, it runs install and at the end it says problem starting streamci.dll (three time), restart computer and get "No ADI codec driver is installed". Icon shows up in system tray but says "No SoundMAX audio present you cannot use SoundMax Control Panel" coming from a 32 bit system I didn't expect this one to work anyways. So I uninstall it.
When I try intalling vista 64 driver I get smwdm.sys not found, I found a set of driver with smwdm.sys included, moved to to the right folder and I get "the audio driver files do not support your computer hardware." I also tryed using the smwdm.sys from the old 32bit drivers, same problem.
Then I tried going around the install, went to update, choose, have disk, ADIHdAud.inf (tried 3 differnt ones with sizes of 36k, 296k, and 329k), installs "SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio" This device cannot start (code 10).
Issue 2:
This one is a trip, so everything works but the sound. I go to nvidia and download driver (I also tried the ones from windows update). Install works, restart, and after starting window screen the screen goes blank, not black but blank like it looses power. Now the weird part, if I hit the power button and put the laptop in sleep mode and then turn it back on everything come up great except now the keyboard doesn't work at all, no numlock, windows button, nothing. Now if I go to device manager it say "PCI standard ISA bridge" has a error, go to properties and it say previous instance is still in memory (Code 38)
So I am at an impass, please help me.
Casey