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Thread ID: 51738 2004-11-28 22:23:00 Audio Driver SiS 7012 FrankS (257) Press F1
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297548 2005-08-10 03:47:00 Hi,

Just a quick note to say a big thankyou to Frank S for detailing exactly how he overcame this problem...I HAVE SOUND TOO!! To clarify the bit he got lost on:

1. Cl reinstall driver
2. It will ask where it should go. Choose to look for it yourself in a specified location. The directory appears similar to that in Device Manager.
3. Choose Sounds, Videos and Games another screen appears asking to choose the make of the driver. Look for SIS but I had two. You can tell the difference as the actual drivers appear in a sub-menu when you cl on them. 4. Choose SIS 7012. The select where the file is coming from (your cd you made) and click through until you get to XP. Click OK and it will install itself.
5. Check Device Manager as instructed below just to check that the original Multimedia Audio Controller has been removed from the other devices list and that there is indeed the new SIS 7012 sub directory within the Sounds, Videos and Games.

Hopefully it should now be working, even without the need to restart (although I did anyhow).

Genius - Thanks again Frank! :D
xxxFarrellxxx (6478)
297549 2005-10-02 10:10:00 I had also that problem on my pc and i hit the ceiling just when I saw that post, now I'll try this...
But I think my Nero is misinstalled and I may not be able to burn a cd :-S
ufubo (6479)
297550 2005-10-02 10:41:00 Yes, I tried that way but I have the driver located in "a12112d.zip" and it didn't worked:( now I'll burn another cd with the other one... ufubo (6479)
297551 2005-10-02 11:24:00 YEAAAHHHH !!!! FrankS, if you come to Turkey, you must find me, I will have surprises for you!!! I can hear, I can heaarrrr!!!!! ufubo (6479)
297552 2005-12-04 08:02:00 Thankyou so much for your help i had the exact same problem and now my volume buttons arent greyed out the sound waves meter is moving so i know the computer is registering sound but for some reason sound is still not coming out of my speakers any suggestions left? im not muted speaker is plugged in nothing wrong in device manager now what else can i try banditnector (6480)
297553 2006-03-23 15:11:00 I also had the same situation described here. After re-installing WinXp it seemed that the SIS7012 driver would not get installed. It gave the same error number (-536870397). The SIS website identification utility identified that my audio driver should be 7012, and I think that a 7012 driver was the one that worked before. The motherboard has a clearly visible SIS650 chip on it, which also hinted that 7012 should work.

After hours of trials, I even had the 7012 driver tell me that it is successfully installed (and I had to fight to get there). But then it came up with a new type of problem: everytime I tried to play a sound file the driver would indicate an error such as that it couldn't find the file.

Finally it turned out that I was trying to install the wrong driver. My motherboard is annotated M810DLUv2.5 which is most likely a PC-Chips M810DLU board. The following page says which driver I should install:
www.pcchipsusa.com

The PC-Chips discontinued products' drivers page offers the driver for direct download:
www.pcchipsusa.com

I think I installed the CMI9738 Codec , i.e.
www.pcchipsusa.com

Was I happy to get this over with. Of-course I could have bought a new internal/external sound-card for 50 bucks or even less.
oded81a4e (6481)
297554 2008-01-13 23:22:00 Hello,
I had the same situation, and thx for the answers, it helped me a lot!
In my situation it was much more easier: I only had to remove the unknown driver from the device manager (System/hardware/device manager) and every SiS 7012 from the registry and I could simply install it. At laaast :P
gabesz (6482)
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