Found New Hardware Wizard

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Everytime I boot my PC and right after I log in, I get this "Found New
Hardware Wizard" dialogue box. It's for the "Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for
High Definition Audio". When I click to install automatically, the search
process starts but then a "Files Needed" dialogue box appears stating The
file "hdaubus.sys on windows driver cabinet is needed and to type the path
where file is located.
The Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio is listed under
Systems Devices in the Device Manager. When I click on its Properties, it
indicated that the device is "working Properly".
My question is what is this device for and where can I get the driver for
it. I reinstalled the mobo installation disc but no joy. NOTE: This was not
happening until I removed my older Nvidia video card and replaced it with an
ATI Radeon. One other thing that happened after that, my PC will not
automatically shut down after I click on the Stop icon. The screen freezes at
the point where it said "Windows is Shutting Down" but I have to shut down
the PC manually. Any ideas what's causing this. Otherwise the PC seemed to be
working fine.
 
donsor said:
Everytime I boot my PC and right after I log in, I get this "Found New
Hardware Wizard" dialogue box. It's for the "Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for
High Definition Audio". When I click to install automatically, the search
process starts but then a "Files Needed" dialogue box appears stating The
file "hdaubus.sys on windows driver cabinet is needed and to type the path
where file is located.
The Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definition Audio is listed under
Systems Devices in the Device Manager. When I click on its Properties, it
indicated that the device is "working Properly".
My question is what is this device for and where can I get the driver for
it. I reinstalled the mobo installation disc but no joy. NOTE: This was not
happening until I removed my older Nvidia video card and replaced it with an
ATI Radeon. One other thing that happened after that, my PC will not
automatically shut down after I click on the Stop icon. The screen freezes at
the point where it said "Windows is Shutting Down" but I have to shut down
the PC manually. Any ideas what's causing this. Otherwise the PC seemed to be
working fine.
Click to expand...

In terms of where you can find that file...

1) The redistributable SP3 download for WinXP, has "hdaudbus.sy_" and
you extract and uncompress that file, to get hdaudbus.sys . I can use
7ZIP to do the necessary magic. SP3 can be obtained here, but this
is a silly way to get that one file. If you already have this downloaded,
then this would be a source of the file.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...A8-5E76-401F-BE08-1E1555D4F3D4&displaylang=en

2) For computers not patched to SP3, you need KB888111. So if
you're running WinXP SP1 or WinXP SP2, you could use this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888111

3) Some sound chip companies bundle KB888111 in a folder called
MSHDQFE. There are various versions of the HD audio bus driver
in there. What that method won't get you, is foreign language
versions. If you use (2) method, you get about 25 different
languages in the install. If you get the files via a sound
chip company, the files are likely the English version. I haven't
seen any feedback from users, to suggest this causes a problem.

Now, in terms of why this happened. Be aware, that modern video cards
now support HDMI. Sometimes, the card does not even have an HDMI
connector on it. But you can connect a DVI to HDMI adapter to the
faceplate, and then you have HDMI. Some of the video cards have
a built-in digital audio solution of some sort, which provides
audio over HDMI. That audio capability, needs KB888111 UAA driver.
It is possible, if you un-installed the driver, it removed some
part or all of 888111 at the same time. So your problem may have
been instigated, by the audio support feature of one of your video
cards.

Some forms of computer sound, rely on two component parts.
For example, HDaudio on the motherboard, uses Microsoft UAA
and also uses a sound chip HDaudio driver. The two component
parts work together, to give sound. This is supposed to be
some kind of improvement over AC'97, but based on these
kinds of incidents, I don't see customers benefiting from this
architecture change. I'm not even convinced the manufacturers
have benefited. AC'97 just seems to be less trouble.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Audio_Architecture

Paul
 
I finally got rid of that pesty "Found New Hardware" dialogue box popping up
everytime I start my PC. Apparently the device is working OK all along and
the driver was in the system. I was able to trace the location of the
"hdaubus.sys" file but when I typed the path, it won't go probably I was
doing it wrong. So instead I went on the Window Explorer and clicked on
C:dirve, Windows, System32, drivers,hdaubus and Voila, it worked. Thanks for
the input. I leaned a lot.

Donsor
 
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