Yesterday I got a new Dell Dimension 5100 desktop for my company. After installing a plain vanilla English XP SP2 instead of the pre-installed Dell-flavored German XP (I really hate that stuff), I noticed that Dell does not provide an audio driver for download. Upon further investigation, I found out that the 5100 uses a Sigmatel STAC 92XX chip for audio. No luck on the Sigmatel Web site though. They don't provide drivers for end users. Some more investigations and I found out that Dell once offered a driver for the Dimension 9100, which seems to use the same audio chip. Fortunately, the driver can still be found on Dell's FTP site: ftp://ftp.dell.com/audio/R97752_OLD.EXE
I don't know the reason why Dell removed it from their downloads page, but I installed the driver and it seems to work.
Posted by guenter at August 20, 2005 06:06 PM