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Solve : Sound Driver = BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!?

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Hello everyone. I'm having a problem installing a SOUND driver on my sisters computer. Every time I go to install it I get blue screen. She has a Dell Dimension 5200. I have attached a PICTURE of the blue screen error report. Maybe some of you can read it a little better then me. The driver I'm installing is WDM_A398 from realtek's site. I'm almost positive it's the right driver.

I have also downloaded the zip file so I could go into device manager, update driver and point to the files that I need. That also crashes the system. It's on board sound by the way. Another thing I have TRIED is just doing a complete windows update. It seems to download that sound driver but doesn't implement for some reason. This is a new OS install.

Any help that or clues to what the problem is WOULD be GREAT!

Thanks.   What OS is this computer using?  XP?
Does it have the original soundcard?
My guess would be that you're installing the wrong driver.  According to the Dell site, this is the proper audio driver:

http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/downloads/en/downloads_splash?c=us&l=en&s=gen&~mode=popup&file=165080

Someone will hopefully come along shortly who can provide further input/advice.Thanks for the input. I'll try that as soon as I can. It's running XP Pro and It's the original motherboard with onboard sound card.According to the Mothership it can be caused from anything to hardware incompatibility to faulty device drivers as CBMatt mentioned above.
Dell's are finicky. You should only use Dell drivers.



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