Hi All, I am working on a AC97 driver for WinXP. I started from the sample driver code provided by XDDK. First time, I installed the driver on an Intel 845GE machine (ICH4), the driver reported that : PrimaryCodecReady timed out. then I modified NTSTATUS CAdapterCommon::PrimaryCodecReady (void), make sure that the function will always return STATUS_SUCCESS. then, the driver can basically work (play/record) on ICH4. After that I tried the driver on ICH5, it also report primary codec is not ready, after I did the same thing(modify the function), the driver can be installed. Device manager also report that the driver works properly. But I can not hear any sound from the speaker jak. I think there must be some difference between ICH4 and ICH5 on controlling AC97 codec, but I am not familiar with AC97 standard. Does anybody here can help or has the same experience? Thanks. Rai. 2006-06-01 ****************** WDMAUDIODEV addresses: Post message: mailto:wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe Unsubscribe: mailto:wdmaudiodev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe Moderator: mailto:wdmaudiodev-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx URL to WDMAUDIODEV page: http://www.wdmaudiodev.com/