How To Get Audio Over HDMI On GA-MA69G-S3H When Device ID FUNC_01&VEN_1002&DEV_791A&SUBSYS_00791A00&REV_1000 Does Not Install
Instructions for Windows 7:
Install Windows 7
Everything works fine
Instructions for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2000:
Download this zip file.
Unzip it.
You need these files for the operating system to be able to install the HDMI audio device.
The zip file contains the following:
Download the zip file, expand it, tell Windows to use the appropriate files for your operating system. If you need more details than that either google it or you shouldn’t be doing this in the first place. Find a 9-year-old and have them do it.
WHY?
I was trying to bring up one of my old Windows 2000 computers on this motherboard (just for sport - it’s a hobby) and I wanted to utilize the HDMI port (because, you know, it’s there). The video was easy, it just happens because you select it in the BIOS, and there’s lots and lots of drivers out there to make it very pretty and Hi-Def. But no matter which driver package I installed from any source, there was always a device that had no driver installed and no sound on the HDMI line.
I decided to start with a fresh install of Win2K and see if that would get the driver to install from one of the many packages I had downloaded from all over the interwebs. It did not help. Many of those driver packages alleged to work with Win2K, but none of them activated that device with the yellow question mark next to it in the device mangler. So on the off chance that the parts of the driver packages that were supposed to work with Win2K had been altered so that they no longer worked, I turned to XP.
I started over with a fresh install of WinXP. Again, trying every driver package I could find left me always with a yellow question mark and no HDMI sound.
At this point I wondered if it was even possible to get sound out the HDMI port. Surely it must be, or there would be evidence of that failure in reviews and blogs from that time. So I loaded up Win7 just to see if a fairly modern operating system could handle it. It worked, of course, right out of the box. And I could see that the driver it loaded was a M$ driver, part of the Win7 install.
I reasoned that this must have worked when it was new, which meant that it must have worked with WinXP at the very least. But it doesn’t work with the drivers downloaded from the Gigabyte web site, so that must not be the package that was used way back when. I set about looking for a driver disk that came with the motherboard when it was new. Lo and behold, there was such a thing on eBay. One. Only one. And I haven’t seen another one since. And the one that was available actually says it’s for Vista. But it turns out it has Vista plus 2K plus XP on it. So I was able to get the files to run that yellow question mark device from an ancient disk.