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Sound Card Help

Aug 3, 2007 9:27AM PDT

Well. I reinstalled Windows a few weeks ago and I lost my soundcard driver..

I've hunted on the net for about a week and I can't find it anywhere

Can someone point me in the right direction?


Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Intel 82801DB ICH4 - AC'97 Audio Controller [A-1]


^ my sound card

Below is what I'll include on my audio. IDK what it is it just came up on Everest and I thought it could be helpful :\
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[ Sound, video and game controllers / Audio Codecs ]

Device Properties:
Driver Description Audio Codecs
Driver Date 7/1/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2535.0
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File wave.inf
Hardware ID MS_MMACM

[ Sound, video and game controllers / Legacy Audio Drivers ]

Device Properties:
Driver Description Legacy Audio Drivers
Driver Date 7/1/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2535.0
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File wave.inf
Hardware ID MS_MMDRV

[ Sound, video and game controllers / Legacy Video Capture Devices ]

Device Properties:
Driver Description Legacy Video Capture Devices
Driver Date 7/1/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2535.0
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File wave.inf
Hardware ID MS_MMVCD

[ Sound, video and game controllers / Media Control Devices ]

Device Properties:
Driver Description Media Control Devices
Driver Date 7/1/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2535.0
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File wave.inf
Hardware ID MS_MMMCI

[ Sound, video and game controllers / Video Codecs ]

Device Properties:
Driver Description Video Codecs
Driver Date 7/1/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2535.0
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File wave.inf
Hardware ID MS_MMVID


Thanks in advance,

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Looks like it's an Intel chipset
Aug 3, 2007 9:34AM PDT

So, go to Intel's website, and start looking for audio drivers. They may be lumped in with chipset drivers in general, in which case you'll need to figure out which chipset your motherboard is using.

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FIXED!
Aug 3, 2007 9:59AM PDT
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Well...
Aug 3, 2007 10:10AM PDT

If you had mentioned it was a Dell system, I could have told you to look there, or on the drivers CD they include with every system. But since you neglected such info, and I'm not interested in trying to drag the information out of you, I went with what you supplied.