Help Please!

[Block G Raptor]

Hi Guy's I had to reinstall Windows XP on me home pc and lost all my drivers
I now have no sound/Multimedia Audio controller or video card so no sound and shyte graphics. its an sis7012 onboard soundcard Ive down loaded the driver from about ten different sites (incl the SiS site) and keep getting an error when i try to install it. I've googled the problem and found about 50 people with the same problem and no solution so you guy's are my last hope of ever having sound again

[Peadar]

Hi Guy's I had to reinstall Windows XP on me home pc and lost all my drivers

There's no easy way around this unless you've got all the original CD's that shipped with the PC. It would take an age to talk you through all the downloads and installs otherwise.
What make of PC is it?

[Block G Raptor]

Its a packard Bell imedia and I bought it from display so got no cd's

[Peadar]

I presume you've gone to their website (http://support.packardbell.com/uk/item/index.php?m=step3&i=platform_veloce_imedia) and downloaded the appropriate chipset, and drivers etc.?

[Block G Raptor]

Yeah Ive put in the serial no but it gives me the wrong drivers
Ive opened up the pc and got the the make and model fron the onboard cards
they are sis7012(sound) and sis mirage A330(Video)
Ive dowloaded the sis7012 about a dozen times and get error -536** (ive downloaded to my work pc and got same error). Cant find an sis Mirage A330 driver anywhere even the sis site ??

[Peadar]

Yeah Ive put in the serial no but it gives me the wrong drivers

So you've installed the drivers they provide?
Or have you just decided that they're wrong and installed what you think is right?

[Block G Raptor]

So you've installed the drivers they provide?
Or have you just decided that they're wrong and installed what you think is right?

Ive installed the recomended driver! av97 and its blue screened my p.c. and caused physical memory dump. I had to resart in safemode and uninstall the driver so I'd say its safe to say its the wrong driver
also ran an everest home scan and that gave me sis 7012 and sis Mirage A330 aswell

[Peadar]

Ive installed the recomended driver! av97 and its blue screened my p.c. and caused physical memory dump.

If I was you, I'd start from scratch and install all the firmware updates etc. Then the chipsets or whatever the Packard Bell equivalent is. Then try installing the driver again. Is there an older version of the driver available on the site?

[dahamsta]

What Peadar says. Always firmware first, then chipsets, then video, the communications, then sound, then everything else.

[Block G Raptor]

thanks lads I'll give it a blast

[Block G Raptor]

ok boys nearly there got Video and sound through audio output(ie Speaker socket) still no sound through my monitor. also the multimedia audio controller has disappeaared from device manager and when I scan for hardware it doesn't pick it up any Ideas