c media chipset cmi8738

I cant install the driver, so my computer is still in silence...
Actaully, I called the computer to search the driver of my CMI8738 PCI Audio Device automatically. However, after some times, it said that it could find the driver, but it encoutered a problem while attempting to install it. Even, I installed the driver by myself, it did not work. I have tried many times, but it still doesn't work.
So, do anyone have such problems? Do you guys have any solutions? thx...

I was able to get my onboard CMI8738 to install and I have sound. I used a driver version that is not available on the C-media website (ver. 644). The latest available on the C-Media website is only ver. 639. I believe this driver was written for an OEM vendor, but it worked well for me in WinXP and appears to be working well in Vista as well; however, I have not yet tested surround sound. I do know that with this driver, the mixer.exe does load and on the first reboot after install it prompts you to choose your speaker configuration. There is no gameport driver as previous versions of Windows supplied a generic one that C-Media relies on (I tried one from WinXP--doesn't work.)
You can get the 644 driver from here:
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOUND-CARD/CMedia/CMedia-8738-v644.shtml
or a bunch of other locations by searching for "C-Media 644"
"akira" wrote:

I cant install the driver, so my computer is still in silence...
Actaully, I called the computer to search the driver of my CMI8738 PCI Audio Device automatically. However, after some times, it said that it could find the driver, but it encoutered a problem while attempting to install it. Even, I installed the driver by myself, it did not work. I have tried many times, but it still doesn't work.
So, do anyone have such problems? Do you guys have any solutions? thx...

Confirmed that Vista does support surround sound with the CMI8738 ver. 644 driver. I have quadraphonic stereo speakers using the speaker out and line-in jacks, and tests confirmed sound out of all 4 speakers. Can't think of any reason to actually run the setup on the driver, just point the driver location to where the files are. One thing I noticed is that Vista did not save my speaker settings after reboot. Not sure why. I kept setting it from stereo to quadraphonic and it finally seemed to take.
"RMWChaos" wrote:

I was able to get my onboard CMI8738 to install and I have sound. I used a driver version that is not available on the C-media website (ver. 644). The latest available on the C-Media website is only ver. 639. I believe this driver was written for an OEM vendor, but it worked well for me in WinXP and appears to be working well in Vista as well; however, I have not yet tested surround sound. I do know that with this driver, the mixer.exe does load and on the first reboot after install it prompts you to choose your speaker configuration. There is no gameport driver as previous versions of Windows supplied a generic one that C-Media relies on (I tried one from WinXP--doesn't work.)
You can get the 644 driver from here:
http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOUND-CARD/CMedia/CMedia-8738-v644.shtml
or a bunch of other locations by searching for "C-Media 644"
"akira" wrote:
I cant install the driver, so my computer is still in silence...
Actaully, I called the computer to search the driver of my CMI8738 PCI Audio Device automatically. However, after some times, it said that it could find the driver, but it encoutered a problem while attempting to install it. Even, I installed the driver by myself, it did not work. I have tried many times, but it still doesn't work.
So, do anyone have such problems? Do you guys have any solutions? thx...

Hey just installed vista lastnight but am having trouble with the drivers for my CMI8738 sound card, I have done a dual boot with xp and vista so i know the sound is still working in xp. I have tried both 639 & 644, Currently working with 639, it is on the "Waiting for audio drivers to be ready" page and the 644 tells me that it can't find my card at all. what to do?
Thanks, Paul
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