aznlilboy87

my harddrive recently had a lot of bad sectors and corrupted. I had to buy a new harddrive in order to fix it. I lost my original system recovery CD for my laptop, so i just installed a new copy of windows xp pro. After searching for all the drivers online, I get stuck at finishing up with my sound card.

I ran Everest Scanner and it says I need the SIS 7012 Driver. I downloaded it off the website, but when installed, i get a error.
Am i installing the wrong driver? I haven't touched drivers in a long time and dont exactly remember which ones i need.

thats the error messages i get.

2nd message..

Googi

maybe your downloading the wrong version of the driver? have you tried to let Windows Update get the driver for you? it works sometimes like that... if nothing else works try some bios updates and then try installing that driver again.

sobeit

did you go to the computers manufacturers website and download the drivers from there? If not, give that a try.

aznlilboy87

i've tried downloading the drivers off their website. but its not the original drivers that came with the computer. i've fixxed my sound card issue, but my video card isn't performing at its maximum potential.

sobeit

exactly what computer do you have? we need manufacturer and exact model number.

aznlilboy87

i purchased a S-Turbo AMD BAtallion-101 from www.ibuypower.com

Battalion-101 S-Turbo[AMD] Series 15.4" 16:10 Wide Screen WXGA 1280x800 LCD TFT Notebook w/Li-Ion Battery
Processor ( Mobile AMD® Athlon-64 3700+ CPU )
Memory ( 1024MB [1024MB X1] DDR-400 PC-3200 [Notebook Memory] Corsair )
Video Card ( Mobility 128MB ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 256-bit 3D Video )
Sound Card ( 3D Premium Surround Sound Onboard )
Fax Modem ( Build-in 56K V.90 Fax Modem [Notebook] )
Network Card ( Build-in 10/100 Network LAN [Notebook] )
IEEE-1394 Fire Wire Card ( Build-in 1x IEEE-1394 Firewire Port [Notebook] )
Wireless Network Adapter ( [FREE] Wireless LAN Wi-Fi 802.11g 54Mbps Mini-PCI Module

not really helpful

the help file on the 32bit drive cd says

audio: realtek alc655
lan: sis900
modem Smartlink 56k modem
wireless lan: MSI 6820 (6833) ieee802.11g

sobeit

if you still have your old drive, and it still has the old install on it, install it as a slave drive.

Then install the sound install as normal but do a browse for the driver, point to the old drive c:windows\system32\drivers folder and let it search there for the driver.

FreoHeaveho

I wouldn't imagine it would be that easy to set it up as a slave on a laptop. The easiest way to solve this is to go here http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ca...xp/mobility-xp