No sound, Need help

[Pinkpizzahat]

Hello. I was cleaning out my computer one day and accidently deleted my driver to my sound card. My specs are:

Windows 2000
Desktop
Motherboard Asus A7v600
The only sound information i could find was
VIA AC'97 Enhanced Audio Controller PCI

My little speaker by my clock dissapeared and I no longer have sound. I've tried installing many drivers including many from the asus website. I've also tried a realtek driver ac'97 but everytime I started my computer I got to a blue screen and then had to start my computer with last known configuration. Let me know if you need any more information about my computer, I'm using AIDA32 to find all it. Thanks for any help.

[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers Pinkpizzahat

What service pack level are you running with windows 2000?

What were you using to "clean out" your computer? Was it a registry cleaner... did it take a back up?

What were the details of the blue screen... the stop message, the numbers and the file name?

[Pinkpizzahat]

Thanks for the quick reply. I was just doing some add/remove program to clean out some old junk and I made a stupid mistake and got rid of my sound. Right now I'm on service pack 4. And I'm not sure what exactly was on the blue screen. I remember it happened every time I installed the realtek ac'97 drive though I'm not even sure if that as the right driver. It happened after it asked me to restart my computer so the changes could take effect and then the blue screen came up before I could even log in. It said something about how something was wrong with my drivers or that my BIOS were not working properly. But I don't think it's anything wrong with the BIOS. I can get to the blue screen if needed but I would rather not, let me know, I will have to reinstall the driver and see what happens.

[slgrieb]

The sound driver is on Asus support here (http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us). You have to look down the page a long way to get to it. You should download and install the current Via 4-in-1 drivers first.

[Pinkpizzahat]

Ok I am downloading the VIA 4 in 1 driver Package Service v4.49. I'll let you know how it goes

[Pinkpizzahat]

I installed it and restarted but nothing happened. Still no sound

[Pinkpizzahat]

I got a screen when I started windows that said found new hardware and then it was trying to install multimedia audio control device but then it couldn't find a driver. It also automatically ran a hardware installation wizard at the start of windows and when I went through the steps it couldn't find the driver.

[NooNoo]

OK, you downloaded the 4 in 1 and installed them... but you didn't download the sound drivers. You need to do that next, then double click the download file to start the install

[Pinkpizzahat]

I'm sorry, I'm not very good at all this. WHere did you say you go to find the sound driver, or what was it called on the asus download site?

[NooNoo]

The sound driver is called Sound max right click here (http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/audio/ad1980/wdm_3620.zip) and select save target as and save it to a folder like c:\sound. When it's fully downloaded open the file and then extract the contents using the extract wizard on the left hand side...

When the wizard finishes, tick the box to open the folder of the extracted files. Find the file called setup.exe and double click it. Your sound drivers will install.