Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2L

[AlbertLionheart]

Anyone else having fun with these?
I have just finished building 6 new machines based on this board and 4 of them have failed to accept the drivers for the sound card. In each case the device manager shows a PCI device with no driver and the sound card is missing.
2 of the 6 boards are OK.
They have all be built by me and are otherwise all the same.
I have downloaded the latest drivers from the web site but this did not fix the problem.

 

[LookinAround]

1. Have you verified the BIOS version on each board? (in fact, there was a release in June, 08 to support onboard codec)

2. Summary/info of all Device Manager problems would also be helpful

• Click Start->Run, enter: msinfo32. (It may take a short while till a second window opens)
• Expand Components (click + sign next to it)
• Click Problem Devices. Anything appear?
• If yes, click it, then Edit->Select All then Edit->Copy and then paste into your next post

 

[AlbertLionheart]

I'll try that
I was wondering if it might be to do with the fact that - as I always do - I installed SP3 before running the auto install routine for all the drivers. Hmm.

 

[LookinAround]

i don't think installing SP3 prior to sound card makes much difference... ASSUMING when it comes time to the sound driver re-installs you've taken the necessary extra steps to clean out old or any still remaining ghost drivers still in your system (And just to make sure nothing is "assumed", i of course, also assume you;ve installed the latest chipset drivers for the motherboard.

All that said, i'd write up instructions for next steps:

1. Scrubbing Device Manager to remove relevant current or ghost devices.
2. Have Windows Device Installer set to createa "verbose" device installation log file.

Then could take a day 1 - 3 days for me to go through and interpret all of its messages and data. And then assess what is failing during the install (and hopefully why it's failing as well)

 

[AlbertLionheart]

Thanks LookinAround - it appears that it is SP3 causing the trouble but not with the audio driver. The problem is with a bus driver that supports the audio driver and this is is what is not compatible with SP3 - which of course as we all know has only been with us for about a week or so. Why cannot these main board people get their act together - this is a commercial issue and I cannot afford to go rooting about looking for patches for components that should work out of the box!
Anyway - I have fixed it and long before the useless Gigabyte support team got into gear to deal with it - and their reply was way off target as I don't think they had read the question