visiontek 4870 can't find audio device???

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I installed a 4870 on a DFI board. Installed the drivers and everything looked ok.
Reboot and found new hardware.


Dl the new drivers off ATI site

8800GT cleaned all old drivers by directions with drive cleaner
installed card. Reboot detect card and install ati full setup.
runs fine.
Next reboot it starts this found new hardware, then Cant find driver for high definition audio device???
 
Go to device manager and you'll see the yellow question mark. Right click it > update driver. Tell it to search for the driver. It will search your computer and will find and install the necessary driver for it.

This happened to me when I installed my 4870x2 and doing this solved it. Hope it helps.
 
thank you for the help. I tried to do that when it pops up the message saying new hardware found and it could not find the driver. But it did doing it this way.

thanks again
 
You need to download a separate driver for the HDMI audio on the 4 series of cards from ATI's web site. Its not included in the regular cat drivers package. Here is the link to the driver for windows xp

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/hdmiaudio-xp

If you have Vista then just redirect to the vista download hope that helps :)

Edit: Make sure you download the Ati audio driver 8.9 not the microsoft one which is on top..
 
zod96 said:
You need to download a separate driver for the HDMI audio on the 4 series of cards from ATI's web site. Its not included in the regular cat drivers package. Here is the link to the driver for windows xp

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/hdmiaudio-xp

If you have Vista then just redirect to the vista download hope that helps :)

Edit: Make sure you download the Ati audio driver 8.9 not the microsoft one which is on top..
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Thanks zod! I was having similar issues with a 4850. Windows updates found the driver but next time I will try the one directly from ATI.
 
The only reason I know this is because like you guys I spent like 4 hours trying to figure out WTF unknown device was after I installed my 4870 :) glad I could help. Ati should let people know this somewhere on the webpage...
 
the realtek hdmi driver is only so the realtek audio chip on the mother board can communicate with the audio pass-through device on the ati card. if you got your audio primarily through an add-in audio card, and wanted to push audio through the ati card via the hdmi adapter, you would have to get the driver from the sound card manufacturer. you wouldn't use the realtek driver.
 
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