dell lattitude 2100 sound driver issue

[zulander]

Hi,

Im having major problems trying to get the audio to work on a Dell 2100. Its Windows XP with SP3 and fully patched.
The driver from the dell website or the realtek one for that matter keeps failing with an error of Realtek HD audio driver failure, error code:0xe0000227.

There are a couple of websites on the net that list this as a fix:
) open device manager click "system devices" disable "microsoft UAA bus driver for high definition audio"
2)uninstall "UAA bus driver" make rescan devices (Note: Not all had this step. You may want to skip it.)
3) install realtek driver the realtek driver includes the UAA driver too.

I have followed the steps and it just doesnt want to play once i disable the uaa bus driver i can complete the driver installation without the initial error but once i restart the machine it picks up a new device called Media and wont find any file to install despite me pointing it at various directorys.

Does anyone have any ideas? Any help greatly appreciated.
cheers

sorry if this is the wrong forum.

[.walls]

Just a guess, but...

Open device manager, under "Sound, video and game controllers", find your sound card.
Right click on the device and select "Properties"
Go to the "Details" tab, select "Hardware Ids" from the dropdown list.
Pop the "VEN_XXXX&DEV_YYYY" into google and look for a fresh set of drivers for it (the vendor and device id will give you the exact details the driver needs - this is basically how plug and play knows what your device is).

[zulander]

cheers for that. Ive tried it but it only comes back with 2 websites both of wich are in italian i think.
any one else got anything i could try.

thanks