eldamar

I have just “downgraded” vista to xp because of some weird memory problem and overall annoyance with that OS. Last time i had trouble installing graphic drivers and audio drivers. This time the graphic drivers was quickly solved by using the drivers from driverpacks.net but audio was still a very annoying problem to solve. But i solved it at last, this is how i did it…

First i downloaded ConexantHDAudio 221_XP.zip from here.

Then i needed to check out some information from the unknown audio device in device manager. So start Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager, select the unknown device, right click and choose properties then go to the detail tab, now there should be a line looking something like this:

HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_103C30CF&REV_1000\4&183BC4AF&0&0001

We need the SUBSYS information, in this case “103C30CF”. Remember this for later…

Now extract the zip file and open up the WiSVHe5.inf file in here we will find a row that looks like this:

[Conexant]
%HdAudioFunctionDriver.Hermosa5051.DeviceDesc% = HdAudModel,HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_103C30CD
%HdAudioFunctionDriver.Hermosa5051.DeviceDesc% = HdAudModel,HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_103C30D6

And after the last row we need to add a new row and use the “103C30CF” from earlier, so it will look like this:

[Conexant]
%HdAudioFunctionDriver.Hermosa5051.DeviceDesc% = HdAudModel,HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_103C30CD
%HdAudioFunctionDriver.Hermosa5051.DeviceDesc% = HdAudModel,HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_103C30D6
%HdAudioFunctionDriver.Hermosa5051.DeviceDesc% = HdAudModel,HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_14F1&DEV_5051&SUBSYS_103C30CF

Now i could run the setup.exe and the driver started working.