Vista - IDT - Audio - IDT High Definition Audio CODEC

On Thu, 8 May 2008 09:01:40 -0500, Andrew Rossmann
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That may be so, but my Dell (bought last month) refers to the Audio
chip as "STAC98xx". Additionally, there are no entries for "IDT"
anywhere in my Registry. Nor are there any such entries on the Dell
driver installation disk. Nor is such a codec driver offered on
Dell's Driver Support site for my particular machine.

IN fact, I've never seen such drivers offered by Microsoft Update on
ANY Dell I've owned, until it was offered after I installed Service
Pack 1.

How this got offered on Windows Update for my particular audio codec,
I will never know. All I do know is that this update is causing many
others lots of problems.

This is not the first time Windows Update has offered me a "poisonous"
unneeded update before. For years, Windows would offer me an HP CD
driver (of course, I had no such HP CD/DVD drives). The ONLY time I
installed the bugger, I wound up having to reinstall the OS.

I assure you, I began looking carefully at such driver updates on
Windows Update, and have not repeated my mistake since then. I prefer
getting my drivers from my PC manufacturer, anyway. Never had good
luck with the drivers offered on Microsoft Update.


Donald L McDaniel
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In article <38o624hdak3rukmms9ec14gsklehp8tvc0@xxxxxx>,
orthocross@xxxxxx says...Windows Update was looking for a file named STWRT.SYS. It then looks at
the version of that file. If it was 6.10.0.5511 or older, it offered the
update. Unfortunately, it appears it may also have updated other files
that caused compatibility problems. Since this is usually built into a
motherboard, there could be minor differences on some.

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On Fri, 9 May 2008 08:05:39 -0500, Andrew Rossmann
<andysnewsreply@xxxxxx_junk.comcast.net> wrote:
Strange: Version Tracker Pro shows no such update for my machine. In
fact, all it shows for Audio is the "SigmaTel High Definition Audio
Codec." Nor does it show any updates available.

My opinion?
STAY AWAY from any such "IDT" updates unless you are SURE they are for
your machine.

And, "If it works already fairly-well, there is no need to update". As
they say, "No need to fix what's not broken."


Donald L McDaniel
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Could anyone please upload the four WRT_M8...INI files from "C:\Program Files\IDT".
The reason I am asking for them is that I was affected by the IDT update but dont have the chance to use System Restore.
I managed to get sound working again by experimenting, but also accidentally lost my original IDT folder.
Thanks in advance