Is there a better audio driver than the sis7012 for the K7s5a?

[edtrip]

My k7s5a is now working very well with a 900 tbird and v3 2000
Except...

For the onboard audio. And even that sounds good all around except for Viper Racing, which is terrible, cracking, static, worthless.

I had the same problem with Viper on a system I just built with a K7vza Via chipset. But in that case I upgraded to the audio drivers on the Via website. that fixed that.

But I can't find any different drivers for the adio on the k7s5a. I tried using the drivers from the AC97 folder on the CD instead of the Sis635, but they didn't work.

Does anybody know of an alternative? Thanks

[Peter M]

Oh well, yet again ...

AC97 is not a programming model for stupid sound engines, it's an interconnect bus between sound engine and codec.

For any given sound engine (the piece in the chipset) you need the appropriate drivers - SiS 7012 in your case. The codec just handles the digital-to-analog conversion of the processed sound data, and is almost completely irrelevant for the driver (other than for the in/out switching and volume control).

Visit www.sis.com (http://www.sis.com) and see if they have anything newer. Chances are they do.

regards, Peter