Can't correct sound card mistake

[Elcee]

I have a Yamaha 724 3D card. It was preinstalled. A few months ago while on the internet PC freezes and I had to reboot. No sound. No speaker icon, nothing in device manager, nothing listed in Sounds/Multimedia. After trying to reload driver from cd and downloading a bunch of Yamaha files all I can get to load is something called a Codec file. Even when I remove it Windows detects hardware (always something called Codec but never Sound Card), can't find driver, I insert cd but it can't find some Audio dll file. Eventually I find that Codec thing listed in device manager but never the sound card. It works for a few days, weeks then the sound goes out again. I know the Sound Card was listed when I first got PC. I probably messed up something the first time I tried to fix it. Is there something I can do to correct this or should I just buy another sound card and if I do will the new card be detected instead of that Codec thing?

[LURKALOT]

Try moving to a different plug in slot inside your computer on the main board befor you buy new.

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[DonJ]

Hi,
I would try to download (again) the correct driver from the site below:
http://www.yamaha.com/lsi/dindex.htm

Close your browser and execute that file that you just downloaded...rembember the directory path of the "just created" driver files.

Then boot into Safe Mode...remove any and all references to your sound card, Codec, etc...reboot and let Windoze find it for you...tell it that you have the driver on disk and Browse to the location of the "just created" drivers...hopefully, it'll take off for you and start flying.

You will probably have to reboot for the changes to take effect...maybe not.

Anyway, hope this works out for you...Good Luck!
DonJ


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Hey, it's all FM to me!

[definitivo]

Hi!

I had a similar problem with a sound card a few months ago and the only solution i found was to reinstall windows again.. sorry!