New XP Pro in dual-boot is mute

Hi Folks,
The computer (Medion Multimedia PC MD8833) has Vista Home Premium
pre-installed. I have installed a newly-bought XP Pro in a separate
partition as a dual boot setup. All in XP is now working after several
trials and tribulations EXCEPT the sound. Realtek High Definition Audio is
on the motherboard. Attempts to install drivers for it, from various sources
including the CD supplied with the computer as 'XP Drivers', a file
recommended by DriverDetective and one from Realtek site, fail towards the
end of the installation process with a cryptic 'failed' message. One error
code announced is 0xE0000227 Does anyone know what this means and what has
generated it?

I wonder if anyone else has encountered this sort of problem with sound in a
dual boot? The Vista installation partition is Hidden and Vista has not been
booted at all when I try these installations. The Installshield runs for
quite a long time, extracting many files and it is almost at the end of a
progress bar when it fails. This seems to imply that it thinks it is
installing to the correct hardware??

It may be relevant that, if I go into Device Manager (where a yellow ! is
shown against this item) and ask Windows to reinstall the driver, nothing at
all happens when that button is clicked. Also 'uninstall' does not work -
something says 'device may be needed to boot up' which is surely
ridiculous!?

Any ideas on how I proceed to get sound working?
TIA
Derek

David
Mon Jul 14 18:05:26 PDT 2008

I searched Google using the error code you provided and found this problem to be
very common.

The most common solution was this:

[quote]
open device manager
click "system devices"
disable "microsoft UAA bus driver for high definition audio"
uninstall "UAA bus driver"
make rescan devices (Note: Not all had this step. You may want to skip it.) D.W.
install realtek driver

the realtek driver includes the UAA driver too.
[end quote]

Hope this helps.

"Derek Harvey" <newsbox1@dvharvey.me.uk> wrote in message
news:OTA4dbd5IHA.4268@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi Folks,
> The computer (Medion Multimedia PC MD8833) has Vista Home Premium
> pre-installed. I have installed a newly-bought XP Pro in a separate partition
> as a dual boot setup. All in XP is now working after several trials and
> tribulations EXCEPT the sound. Realtek High Definition Audio is on the
> motherboard. Attempts to install drivers for it, from various sources
> including the CD supplied with the computer as 'XP Drivers', a file
> recommended by DriverDetective and one from Realtek site, fail towards the end
> of the installation process with a cryptic 'failed' message. One error code
> announced is 0xE0000227 Does anyone know what this means and what has
> generated it?
>
> I wonder if anyone else has encountered this sort of problem with sound in a
> dual boot? The Vista installation partition is Hidden and Vista has not been
> booted at all when I try these installations. The Installshield runs for quite
> a long time, extracting many files and it is almost at the end of a progress
> bar when it fails. This seems to imply that it thinks it is installing to the
> correct hardware??
>
> It may be relevant that, if I go into Device Manager (where a yellow ! is
> shown against this item) and ask Windows to reinstall the driver, nothing at
> all happens when that button is clicked. Also 'uninstall' does not work -
> something says 'device may be needed to boot up' which is surely ridiculous!?
>
> Any ideas on how I proceed to get sound working?
> TIA
> Derek
>
>

Derek
Tue Jul 15 02:33:32 PDT 2008

Thanks David for that tip. I'll certainly give it a try when I next get that
system on.
Derek

"David Webb" <dwebb211@earthling.net> wrote in message
news:Oie7cbh5IHA.2336@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I searched Google using the error code you provided and found this problem
>to be very common.
>
> The most common solution was this:
>
> [quote]
> open device manager
> click "system devices"
> disable "microsoft UAA bus driver for high definition audio"
> uninstall "UAA bus driver"
> make rescan devices (Note: Not all had this step. You may want to skip
> it.) D.W.
> install realtek driver
>
> the realtek driver includes the UAA driver too.
> [end quote]
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> "Derek Harvey" <newsbox1@dvharvey.me.uk> wrote in message
> news:OTA4dbd5IHA.4268@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Folks,
>> The computer (Medion Multimedia PC MD8833) has Vista Home Premium
>> pre-installed. I have installed a newly-bought XP Pro in a separate
>> partition as a dual boot setup. All in XP is now working after several
>> trials and tribulations EXCEPT the sound. Realtek High Definition Audio
>> is on the motherboard. Attempts to install drivers for it, from various
>> sources including the CD supplied with the computer as 'XP Drivers', a
>> file recommended by DriverDetective and one from Realtek site, fail
>> towards the end of the installation process with a cryptic 'failed'
>> message. One error code announced is 0xE0000227 Does anyone know what
>> this means and what has generated it?
>>
>> I wonder if anyone else has encountered this sort of problem with sound
>> in a dual boot? The Vista installation partition is Hidden and Vista has
>> not been booted at all when I try these installations. The Installshield
>> runs for quite a long time, extracting many files and it is almost at the
>> end of a progress bar when it fails. This seems to imply that it thinks
>> it is installing to the correct hardware??
>>
>> It may be relevant that, if I go into Device Manager (where a yellow ! is
>> shown against this item) and ask Windows to reinstall the driver, nothing
>> at all happens when that button is clicked. Also 'uninstall' does not
>> work - something says 'device may be needed to boot up' which is surely
>> ridiculous!?
>>
>> Any ideas on how I proceed to get sound working?
>> TIA
>> Derek
>>
>>
>
>

Derek
Tue Jul 15 15:36:55 PDT 2008

Thanks again David, that worked a treat and XP now talks back at me!

Derek

"David Webb" <dwebb211@earthling.net> wrote in message
news:Oie7cbh5IHA.2336@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I searched Google using the error code you provided and found this problem
>to be very common.
>
> The most common solution was this:
>
> [quote]
> open device manager
> click "system devices"
> disable "microsoft UAA bus driver for high definition audio"
> uninstall "UAA bus driver"
> make rescan devices (Note: Not all had this step. You may want to skip
> it.) D.W.
> install realtek driver
>
> the realtek driver includes the UAA driver too.
> [end quote]
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> "Derek Harvey" <newsbox1@dvharvey.me.uk> wrote in message
> news:OTA4dbd5IHA.4268@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Folks,
>> The computer (Medion Multimedia PC MD8833) has Vista Home Premium
>> pre-installed. I have installed a newly-bought XP Pro in a separate
>> partition as a dual boot setup. All in XP is now working after several
>> trials and tribulations EXCEPT the sound. Realtek High Definition Audio
>> is on the motherboard. Attempts to install drivers for it, from various
>> sources including the CD supplied with the computer as 'XP Drivers', a
>> file recommended by DriverDetective and one from Realtek site, fail
>> towards the end of the installation process with a cryptic 'failed'
>> message. One error code announced is 0xE0000227 Does anyone know what
>> this means and what has generated it?
>>
>> I wonder if anyone else has encountered this sort of problem with sound
>> in a dual boot? The Vista installation partition is Hidden and Vista has
>> not been booted at all when I try these installations. The Installshield
>> runs for quite a long time, extracting many files and it is almost at the
>> end of a progress bar when it fails. This seems to imply that it thinks
>> it is installing to the correct hardware??
>>
>> It may be relevant that, if I go into Device Manager (where a yellow ! is
>> shown against this item) and ask Windows to reinstall the driver, nothing
>> at all happens when that button is clicked. Also 'uninstall' does not
>> work - something says 'device may be needed to boot up' which is surely
>> ridiculous!?
>>
>> Any ideas on how I proceed to get sound working?
>> TIA
>> Derek
>>
>>
>
>

David
Tue Jul 15 18:45:18 PDT 2008

You're welcome....glad to hear that it was the right fix for you too.

"Derek Harvey" <newsbox1@dvharvey.me.uk> wrote in message
news:eB3LIts5IHA.4848@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Thanks again David, that worked a treat and XP now talks back at me!
>
> Derek
>
> "David Webb" <dwebb211@earthling.net> wrote in message
> news:Oie7cbh5IHA.2336@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>I searched Google using the error code you provided and found this problem to
>>be very common.
>>
>> The most common solution was this:
>>
>> [quote]
>> open device manager
>> click "system devices"
>> disable "microsoft UAA bus driver for high definition audio"
>> uninstall "UAA bus driver"
>> make rescan devices (Note: Not all had this step. You may want to skip it.)
>> D.W.
>> install realtek driver
>>
>> the realtek driver includes the UAA driver too.
>> [end quote]
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> "Derek Harvey" <newsbox1@dvharvey.me.uk> wrote in message
>> news:OTA4dbd5IHA.4268@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> The computer (Medion Multimedia PC MD8833) has Vista Home Premium
>>> pre-installed. I have installed a newly-bought XP Pro in a separate
>>> partition as a dual boot setup. All in XP is now working after several
>>> trials and tribulations EXCEPT the sound. Realtek High Definition Audio is
>>> on the motherboard. Attempts to install drivers for it, from various sources
>>> including the CD supplied with the computer as 'XP Drivers', a file
>>> recommended by DriverDetective and one from Realtek site, fail towards the
>>> end of the installation process with a cryptic 'failed' message. One error
>>> code announced is 0xE0000227 Does anyone know what this means and what has
>>> generated it?
>>>
>>> I wonder if anyone else has encountered this sort of problem with sound in a
>>> dual boot? The Vista installation partition is Hidden and Vista has not been
>>> booted at all when I try these installations. The Installshield runs for
>>> quite a long time, extracting many files and it is almost at the end of a
>>> progress bar when it fails. This seems to imply that it thinks it is
>>> installing to the correct hardware??
>>>
>>> It may be relevant that, if I go into Device Manager (where a yellow ! is
>>> shown against this item) and ask Windows to reinstall the driver, nothing at
>>> all happens when that button is clicked. Also 'uninstall' does not work -
>>> something says 'device may be needed to boot up' which is surely
>>> ridiculous!?
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how I proceed to get sound working?
>>> TIA
>>> Derek
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>