Solved: Need Audio Drivers For XP

I wiped Vista and clean installed XP. I need an XP version of the audio drivers for the Sigmatel device that comes on the Emachines T3604 motherboard. I went on the Emachines website, and the only drivers there were for Vista, as it was the originally installed OS. I also asked two live support agents, and they cannot help because they say they have no XP drivers in their database.

At first, I accidentally installed the vista drivers and I got sound, but when I went to the Sigmatel option in control panel, it said "Unable to connect to COM interface." And when I added the volume icon to taskbar, I would turn the volume up or down and it would make the beep noise like when you don't have an audio device installed. I uninstalled the vista drivers and have been looking for an XP version.

I will be your best friend if you find the seemingly nonexistent drivers I'm looking for.




Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 3, 32 bit
Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) D CPU 3.33GHz, x86 Family 15 Model 6 Stepping 5
Processor Count: 1
RAM: 2GB
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon X1050, 256 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 95001 MB, Free - 86030 MB;
Motherboard: Intel Corporation, D945GCL
Antivirus: Avast Free

 

You have the Sigmatel HD Audio Driver (integrated sound card) on your system system. E-machine website doesn't show any drivers for xp for that model anymore because it only comes with vista. This same chipset is used by gateway and they have XP drivers: http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/getFile.asp?id=20706&dscr=SigmaTel%20HD%20Audio%20Driver%20Version:%20%205.10.4647.4&uid=208846466

 

Thanks for replying. I ended up using Driver Genius to install a driver called IDT; I think thats who Sigmatel is.
I still had a beeping noise when changing the volume, but I got rid of that through the registry.

 

Yeah it's hard to find the Sigmatel driver for your version since the E-machine website doesn't show the xp drivers. The IDT driver is the same as the ones used on the gateway model link I gave to you if you ever need to save the drivers. Glad to help