Soundmax Audio Driver For Intel D875PBZ Motherboard!

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Besides going to Intel, (it's not on their site). Can someone point me in
right direction with this. I have an audio card installed, (works fine), but
the onboard audio would be a back-up should the soundcard ever fail.

Thanks,

Curt.
 
Curt said:
Besides going to Intel, (it's not on their site). Can someone point me in
right direction with this. I have an audio card installed, (works fine), but
the onboard audio would be a back-up should the soundcard ever fail.

Thanks,

Curt.
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You no longer have the CD that came with the motherboard that had all
the chipset drivers? Intel really no longer provides a download for the
chipset drivers package for that old motherboard?

I found 4 driver downloads from Intel for that mobo, one which was for
the chipset; however, it appears that is just a set of .inf files that
define the devices on the mobo. INF files merely describe the behavior
or interface of a device to the OS. They don't provide an actual
driver. The driver would be a mini-port driver already included in
Windows that the .inf file describes how to use. So the drivers are
already expected to be included in a Windows XP install but you may need
the .inf files to describe how to adapt the mini-port drivers to
interface with a particular implementation of a device.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Driver_Model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniport
 
Curt said:
It's a barebones board I picked up on eBay recently.
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Doesn't stop you from visiting Intel's web site and downloading all the
"drivers" for it. They *are* on their site.
 
You assume I didn't try that...I was on Intel's site for quite a while on
Weds. & Thur for over an hour with any success before posting here.
 
You assume I didn't try that...I was on Intel's site for quite a while on
Weds. & Thur for over an hour with any success before posting here.
 
Curt said:
VanguardLH wrote ...


You assume I didn't try that...I was on Intel's site for quite a while on
Weds. & Thur for over an hour with any success before posting here.
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Actually I assumed you did look there but didn't dig correctly or went
astray in the link navigation. I've often seen respondents tell someone
to go do a Google search but unless you use the correct search criteria
and know how to use the operators, quoting, and other search tricks, the
results are so huge and unfocused as to be useless.

Took me maybe 5 minutes to find. Took me longer to write this reply
than to do the search and pick some likely candidates. Rather than
describe step by step what I did to search at Intel, here some choices:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=15199&lang=eng&wapkw=(D875PBZ)
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=14713&lang=eng&wapkw=(D875PBZ)
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=6105&lang=eng&wapkw=(D875PBZ)

My guess is you want the chipset INF update.
 
robert wise said:
It is on the Intel site. They are just too fricking stupid to make it
available. But I can here.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?ProductID=951&DwnldID=6816&lang=eng

but these idiots st Intel are so incompetent that they don't list them
with the software downloads for the D875pbz motherboard, nor does the
automated motherboard scan list them for you! In fact, a manual search on
the intel site for
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But you're smart enough to post the same reply seven times? Hmmm. . . :-)

(and your spell-checker failed, also.)
 
SC said:
But you're smart enough to post the same reply seven times? Hmmm. . .
:-)
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But he is excited to get his Audio Drivers so how else can he broadcast
his audio :)

hth
 
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