I had already tried the Realtek Vista beta drivers and everytime I tried to
install them in x64 vista I would get a "The path cannot be found" error when
it tried to install the driver. I however never tried the whole intel ac97
workaround that they were explaining in that thread, however I did notice
that someone had mentioned they couldn't get it to work in vista, as it was
primarily an xp x64 workaround.
I'd be interested to hear exactly what driver you used (and which audio chip
your particular zd8000 has, I used to sell these things so I know there's a
ton of submodels of the zd8000 hehe) and what process you used to make it
work, but I've already gone through the trouble of installing x86 vista so
this is probably more just for my peace of mind at this point as i'm not
really wanting to go through the whole 2-3 hour install again.
"BeckyWC" wrote:
> I have the hp zd8000 and I have sound. I forgot where on the internet I went
> to to get vista beta driver for a conexant ac'97 or realtek ac'97.
>
> I don't know which audio chip you have but don't give up. Try here
>
> http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversi...hp/t15832.html
>
> "Thracky" wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Here's what I've figured out thus far.
> >
> > There is currently NO possible way in my knowledge to get any drivers
> > working with x64 Vista with the Conexant audio chips, which is what everyone
> > who is having issues has on their respective notebooks. However, there's a
> > lot more hope if you can cope with only running the x86 Vista ;-)
> >
> > Basically as far as I can tell the standard xp drivers should work just fine
> > as I am using them right now on a Compaq V2575 which uses the Conexant
> > AC-Link Audio. Download the respective driver from the HP website for your
> > model, generally the file you download will be a self-extracting archive that
> > will pop itself somewhere (Usually C:\swsetup\some subdir) and then it will
> > automatically run the program to install the drivers itself, cancel that
> > program, find the program (or any and all exe's for that driver package in
> > the swsetup directory) and make sure that you set windows xp with service
> > pack 2 compatibility for them.
> >
> > I'm sure manually installing the drivers would also work, so really either
> > way there should be no issue with sound as long as you're willing to stick
> > with x86 for now.
> >
> >