I have a Realtek AC97 soundcard. I have the official XP drivers from Sony
which install when ran under XP SP2 compatibility mode. Once installed, the
sound works with no issue at all, however when I restart I have to reinstall
the driver again to get sound to work again.

Sound has worked consistently on previous installations of 5384 and 5472
(current version: 5472). I have reformatted and reinstalled 5472 yet this
issue still persists.

I've got a problem with Realtek's ACL660 on my notebook, sent an e-mail to
the support team

Check realtek's website if there's a vista beta driver for AC97, you never
know.

Cheers,

Marcos


"Cameron" <Cameron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F7AA9717-7A16-4397-9FD5-78F192D257BE@microsoft.com...
>I have a Realtek AC97 soundcard. I have the official XP drivers from Sony
> which install when ran under XP SP2 compatibility mode. Once installed,
> the
> sound works with no issue at all, however when I restart I have to
> reinstall
> the driver again to get sound to work again.
>
> Sound has worked consistently on previous installations of 5384 and 5472
> (current version: 5472). I have reformatted and reinstalled 5472 yet this
> issue still persists.

Realtek have Vista drivers available. Make sure yiu get the right one though.
I had to get the ones for the ALC650 series.
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&Software=True

Jonty

"Marcos Ramos" wrote:

> I've got a problem with Realtek's ACL660 on my notebook, sent an e-mail to
> the support team
>
> Check realtek's website if there's a vista beta driver for AC97, you never
> know.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcos
>
>
> "Cameron" <Cameron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F7AA9717-7A16-4397-9FD5-78F192D257BE@microsoft.com...
> >I have a Realtek AC97 soundcard. I have the official XP drivers from Sony
> > which install when ran under XP SP2 compatibility mode. Once installed,
> > the
> > sound works with no issue at all, however when I restart I have to
> > reinstall
> > the driver again to get sound to work again.
> >
> > Sound has worked consistently on previous installations of 5384 and 5472
> > (current version: 5472). I have reformatted and reinstalled 5472 yet this
> > issue still persists.
>
>