Glendroses
May 13th, 2006, 12:21 AM
I'm hoping someone can help me -
I reformatted my DD's computer, which we had been given "as is", with no discs etc. I reinstalled Win98SE (which I had bought only a week prior), however I can't get the sound to work.
There is no volume icon in the system tray, and no sound devices are listed in Device Manager. There is an unknown device listed, which I'm assuming is the sound card - PCI Multimedia. I can't install it, as Windows can't find the drivers I need, and I don't know where to look.
The sound used to work prior to the reformat, so something must be able to be fixed. The computer does give the POST test beep, and can play a music CD; just no system sounds.
I did run the Belarc advisor, and it doesn't list any audio devices either. I tried searching on the IBM site, but it doesn't have any documents to match the computer (too old probably...), and a google search has been fruitless.
Hope I've given enough information to make a start with.
Glenda
I reformatted my DD's computer, which we had been given "as is", with no discs etc. I reinstalled Win98SE (which I had bought only a week prior), however I can't get the sound to work.
There is no volume icon in the system tray, and no sound devices are listed in Device Manager. There is an unknown device listed, which I'm assuming is the sound card - PCI Multimedia. I can't install it, as Windows can't find the drivers I need, and I don't know where to look.
The sound used to work prior to the reformat, so something must be able to be fixed. The computer does give the POST test beep, and can play a music CD; just no system sounds.
I did run the Belarc advisor, and it doesn't list any audio devices either. I tried searching on the IBM site, but it doesn't have any documents to match the computer (too old probably...), and a google search has been fruitless.
Hope I've given enough information to make a start with.
Glenda