I would backup your existing kexts before trying anything new.

Have you tried Taruga's AppleHDA Patcher?
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ind...howtopic=32859

or VoodooHDA?
http://code.google.com/p/voodoohda/

I am not too familiar with this audio chipset.

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