Re: XP Pro. SP3 keeps telling me about HD Audio Controller that is disabled in CMOS!

"Ant" <> wrote in message
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> On 12/28/2008 1:30 AM PT, Ant typed:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > I just got my new MSI P43 Neo3-F motherboard, MSI Radeon 4870 512 MB
> > video card, etc. yesterday. My friend and I are puzzled why Windows XP
> > Pro. SP3 keeps asking for the driver at bootup/login. We even tried the
> > latest BIOS (successful upgrade via a bootable 3.5" DOS disk), and that
> > did not fix it.
> >
> > Does anyone know what's up? Is there another CMOS setting(s) we missed
> > to completely disable it? I want to use my Creative Audigy 2 ZS
> > soundcard.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
>
> Someone told me to get the HDMI audio driver for my new ATI Radeon 4870
> video card and that fixed it. I didn't know ATI Radeon could do audio!
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The HDMI does sound over HDMI cables and obviously needs a driver to do
that.

Pokeyman

<snip>
> >>> Thank you in advance.
> >> Someone told me to get the HDMI audio driver for my new ATI Radeon 4870
> >> video card and that fixed it. I didn't know ATI Radeon could do audio!
> >
> > The HDMI does sound over HDMI cables and obviously needs a driver to do
> > that.
>
> Interesting and thanks. I still use S-video, RCA cables, etc. so that's
> news to me.
> --

yup, insted of a bunch of video and audio cables, you got 1 connection for
all
but beware, not all HDMI cables support the sound.

Pokeyman