Sound Driver Blocked Because Vista Cannot Verify The Publisher


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Hello everyone,

I have been trying to install drivers for my sound card, but Windows Vista cannot verify the publisher. Every time I click the option to install the software anyway, the window only pops back up again. I can never seem to get past it to install my driver, so I cannot get sound on my PC. The funny thing is, this is in fact a Vista driver! Does anyone know a way around this annoying Windows Vista security feature?

Thanks,

Jay Gordon

Ok, this is probably a dumb question. But what is the proper way to login as Admin? Also, I don't think I ever setup a password for that either.

try installing the driver as the Administrator and not your normal user account.

It's probably an issue with unsigned drivers. There shouldn't even be an issue, by now those idiots should realize that they need to sign their drivers. However, there's probably a driver available from Windows Update. Just uninstall the Realtek package and run Windows Update. Or download the drivers from the Realtek site, not ASUS. If none of that works you can enable using unsigned drivers on boot. Just do a search in the forums, I'm sure there have been at least a couple threads dedicated to how you can go about doing that. (But if you're lazy I think you can do it through msconfig)

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It's probably an issue with unsigned drivers. There shouldn't even be an issue, by now those idiots should realize that they need to sign their drivers. However, there's probably a driver available from Windows Update. Just uninstall the Realtek package and run Windows Update. Or download the drivers from the Realtek site, not ASUS. If none of that works you can enable using unsigned drivers on boot. Just do a search in the forums, I'm sure there have been at least a couple threads dedicated to how you can go about doing that.

Windows updates does not find the driver, already tried that. Windows Problems and Solutions says there is no solution either. However, the manufacture website clearly has a Vista driver listed for download. What I need is a work around on this annoying security feature in windows, or a way to disable it.

I found out how to disable driver signing, however, it still won't install as i still continue to get the pop-up... Here's what I did:

Click Start - Run

then type: gpedit.msc

then hit enter.

Browse the folder tree to the following location:

User Configuration - Administrative Templates - System - Driver Installation

now right-click Code signing for Device drivers and select Properties.

On the Settings tab, either select

- enable, and then select ignore from the appearing listbox..

- or click the disable option.

Click apply and Ok.

I will give this a try, thanks for the link :cool:

Not sure how to enable unsigned drivers, I guess I'll have to google it... Thanks :cool:

You cannot simply disable the signing requirement in 64-bit Windows. Anyone who claims you can clearly has not ever had to do it. You have to put Windows into test signing mode (which will also display "Test Mode" and the build number in the bottom right corner), then create your own certificate, add it to a store, and then sign the driver with that certificate, before finally installing it.

You cannot simply disable the signing requirement in 64-bit Windows. Anyone who claims you can clearly has not ever had to do it. You have to put Windows into test signing mode (which will also display "Test Mode" and the build number in the bottom right corner), then create your own certificate, add it to a store, and then sign the driver with that certificate, before finally installing it.

Would you know of any sites that would explain the steps in doing this?

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