Unable to load sound drivers

[Ohemgee]

I'm having problems with my IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller drivers. Since I reformatted my computer (first time since I bought it in 2006ish), I haven't been able to load my sound drivers on my computer, partly because my DVD drive doesn't recognize the second DVD, but thats another issue.

I tried downloading them off of microsofts website, but get a critical failure during installation. I have an HP Pavillion a1310n amd64 3900+ model if that helps. I'll post a drive summary from Astra32 later if that helps.

[Zigma]

go to HP's website and put the model number of your PC in there. It will take you to the page that supports your PC and get the drivers from there, not windows. Also, AC'97 is realtek if i remember correctly, you can try their site too but for the safe side, just go to HP.

[Ohemgee]

I tried that, and when it came to installing the driver, it always failed at doing so.