Realtek Audio Problems
March 3rd, 2021
I downgraded a laptop from a friend of mine from Windows Vista to Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3. Everything went smoothly for the drivers, except for the Audio. The notification under the Device Manager gives a “!” before the “High Definition audiobus”. So I thought reinstalling the driver should fix the problem, but that’s the hard part. I’ve downloaded the newest Realtek (2.08) Driver and while installing I continuesly getting the error code “0xe000227” and that stops the setup. I’ve tried installing under safe mode, removing the device under device manager, updating the driver, manually adding the inf files, modded inf files to load driver, tried older drivers, tried AC audio from realtek, tried updating hardware via windows update. Also have tried 3th party Driver tools (Drivers Magician etc) but these weren’t of much help either. Yes, this has kept me busy for the last 3 hours and now I thought it was time to ask some help =]
More specs:
Acer Aspire 7720G
Windows XP SP3 4GB RAM
640GB HD
Thanks for all advices, and have a good day
Greetings,
Edit;
I have tried the drivers from this website:
http://notebook.driversdown.com/notebook-drivers/s_146_1.shtml
And also the originals from Realtek website, both without luck
I was having same problem too. The problem is the copy of SP3 that I use to downgrade isn’t compatible with the computer. So I search for another version of SP3, and everything back to normal I can install all the driver with no problem happens.