Soundmax AD1980 driver installation...

I am using windows vista x64 Enterprise on my ASUS K8V(AD1980 on-board sound
card) motherboard.

When I installed the OS, it automatically installed AC97VIA sound driver.
I can hear the sound through regular pc speaker.. but...

The problem is that the S/PDIF doesn't work at all(no sound.. selecting the
enable S/PDIF menu doesn't work).

I have tried to install Vista 64 bit driver, but all the install files(more
than 30times) that i tried doesn't seem to contain smwdm.sys, so the
installation failed..

Installing XP 64x driver didn't also seem to work out as well.. When I tried
to install them manually(after setting bcdedit -set nointegritychecks yes)I
kept saying that it's not compatible driver..

Any ideas..? This is very frustrating..

Read up on this issue here.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00...ista_cost.html

"joseph2625" <joseph2625@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5F8D10BE-2846-48EC-9F1A-49084E6F6A35@microsoft.com...
>I am using windows vista x64 Enterprise on my ASUS K8V(AD1980 on-board
>sound
> card) motherboard.
>
> When I installed the OS, it automatically installed AC97VIA sound driver.
> I can hear the sound through regular pc speaker.. but...
>
> The problem is that the S/PDIF doesn't work at all(no sound.. selecting
> the
> enable S/PDIF menu doesn't work).
>
> I have tried to install Vista 64 bit driver, but all the install
> files(more
> than 30times) that i tried doesn't seem to contain smwdm.sys, so the
> installation failed..
>
> Installing XP 64x driver didn't also seem to work out as well.. When I
> tried
> to install them manually(after setting bcdedit -set nointegritychecks
> yes)I
> kept saying that it's not compatible driver..
>
> Any ideas..? This is very frustrating..
>

Well.. But shouldn't it at least play non-protected contents?
I don't hear ANY sound(even windows logon,logoff soundclips, etc..)

"DandyDon" wrote:

> Read up on this issue here.
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00...ista_cost.html
>
> "joseph2625" <joseph2625@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5F8D10BE-2846-48EC-9F1A-49084E6F6A35@microsoft.com...
> >I am using windows vista x64 Enterprise on my ASUS K8V(AD1980 on-board
> >sound
> > card) motherboard.
> >
> > When I installed the OS, it automatically installed AC97VIA sound driver.
> > I can hear the sound through regular pc speaker.. but...
> >
> > The problem is that the S/PDIF doesn't work at all(no sound.. selecting
> > the
> > enable S/PDIF menu doesn't work).
> >
> > I have tried to install Vista 64 bit driver, but all the install
> > files(more
> > than 30times) that i tried doesn't seem to contain smwdm.sys, so the
> > installation failed..
> >
> > Installing XP 64x driver didn't also seem to work out as well.. When I
> > tried
> > to install them manually(after setting bcdedit -set nointegritychecks
> > yes)I
> > kept saying that it's not compatible driver..
> >
> > Any ideas..? This is very frustrating..
> >
>
>
>