Getting sound to work in Vista with the ASUS P5PE-VM
Upon installing Vista on what I considered to be a relatively recent motherboard (the p5pe-vm), I found that the audio drivers weren’t detected or installed. Often, Windows Update finds updated drivers, but this time I wasn’t so lucky. So… I tried the following:
- Choosing random generic drivers included with Vista
- Trying an ADI SoundMAX 1888 driver for another ASUS motherboard
- Searching the net for about an hour
From what I gathered, it looks like ADI hasn’t really put a lot of effort into making drivers readily available for Vista. Just about every search result I came across was someone looking for drivers and not finding them. I’ll also throw a little bit of blame at ASUS. I’ve bought a lot of ASUS motherboards, and I’ve never had issues down the line when upgrading to a new OS. IN ANY CASE, there is one and only one way I’ve found to get the sound to work…. use old drivers.
The ones I used are available here, Read more…