Download the AC'97 Intel 82801 AA Sound Card Device Driver for Microsoft Windows

Owners of the Intel AC'97 82801 AA might be having trouble getting it to work with some machines that might consider it a legacy device. For these users, a new driver might allow the operating system to interface with the device. If the driver is missing or was deleted, you might be having sound problems as well. Driver corruption would have netted an error message, and a lack of sound afterwards. This card was used as the onboard sound device on some slightly older personal desktop computers, so users of newer system software might need to update their driver file.

Many of these device problems can be fixed simply by downloading a new driver from this website. The device could be brought back from the dead, so to speak, to give sound to a currently quiet system. If the sound was working before with an 82801 card, but is no longer, the driver may have become corrupted. A fresh copy should fix many of the problems that get started in this fashion. The majority of problems that people have with sound can be corrected with device drivers. PC audio output that isn't crisp is the one other thing to look out for; that could also indicate that the wrong driver is selected.