IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO INSTALL THE HD SOUND DRIVERS AFTER A CLEAN INSTALLATION OF W INDOWS XP SP3 THEN SKIP THE

FOLLOWING SECTION AND GO DIRECTLY TO 'For clean installation' SECT ION BELOW THIS. IF YOU HAVE TRIED TO INSTALL THE HD SOUND DRIVERS WITH FAILURE THEN START OFF FR OM THE FOLLOWING SECTION RIGHT AWAY. For failed installation: 1. Uninstall all sound software which may appear in 'Add/Remove Software list'(S tart->Control Panel->Add/Remove...) 2. Restart your PC. 3. After restarting,PC throws up 'Found New Hardware' dialogue. Let it be on scr een, just ignore it and do the following steps. 4. Right click on 'My Computer'->Properties->Select 'Hardware' tab->Device Manag er->Find 'System Devices' 5. Find 'Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio' entry. 6.Right-click->Disable->Ignore warning if any 7. Wait for about 5 seconds and then again Right-Click on it and this time selec t 'Uninstall' (again ignore warning if any) 8. Now either there will be a request to restart your PC or you do restart syste m without waiting any further for any warning!) 6. After restarting, do all steps Given in the 'For Clean installation' section below (WARNING!- DO EXACTLY AS ASKED DON'T JUMP OR MISS ANY STEP. IF YOU DO YOU WILL HAVE TO START OVER AGAIN. NOW YOU WOULDN'T WANT THAT!!!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For clean installation: (If PC throws up 'Found New Hardware' dialogue. Let it b e on screen, just ignore it and do the following steps.) 1. Start Windows Registry Manager (Start->Run->type 'regedit') 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows 3.After clicking on Windows look for 'CSDVersion'entry in the right-side space. 4.Open it by double-clicking. 5.Look for 'Value data' value. If it is 100 then your Windows has Service Pack 1 If it is 200 then your Windows has Service Pack 2 If it is 300 then your Windows has Service Pack 3 (In case of Service Pack 1 and 2 there should be no trouble for installing audio drivers. So for us the value of 300 is important.) 6.Now change that value from 300 to 200 (Yes, we are cheating Windows to think for a short while that it has Service Pack 2!) 7. Now close registry editor and restart your system. 8. After restarting install 'Microsoft UAA for HD Audio' (Preferably using Administrator mode. i.e. right-click on 'Microsoft UAA for HD Audio', then choose 'Run as' and enter password below Administrator inputbox.) 9. After installation open 'Add/Remove Software'(Start->Control Panel->Add/Remov e...) 10. Make sure you can see 'High Definition Audio Driver Package - KB835221' list ed there. (War almost won!) 11. Now open once again open Registry Editor and change that Service Pack Value back to 300. 12. Restart your system. 13. After restarting install the latest HD Audio Drivers from Realtek (again pre ferably

using 'Administrator' mode using method given above) 14. After installtion there will be a request to restart your PC, click 'Restart Now' (Or something like that) 15. If your speakers are connected and are switched on, You should here the Wind ows closing sound! (If you don't here the sound, don't worry, let the PC restart then right-click o n the Windows sound icon - not the red one of Realtek sound manager!, Select 'Adujst Audio Properties', Go to 'Sounds' tab, click on Listbox below 'So und Scheme', Select 'Windows Default', The system asks whether to save previous scheme, selec t 'No', Click 'OK') You are done!!!