sound (sorry, yes again)

[mspitz]

It makes no sense to me but here is what I did. I removed the modem software and hardware along with the sound card hardware. Restarted and had Windows reinstall sound card. No sound. As a last resort, I put the sound card in the modem slot and the modem in the sound card slot and let windows reinstall both softwares. I now have sound and a modem. Do you have any idea why it might be working now?

[mspitz]

One more thing, thank you for all your help. I am so glad I found a site where I can go to resolve problems. You have been wonderful.

[NooNoo]

Pleasure mspitz - as to your previous query, this is usually comes down to "irq" sharing. My favourite analogy (which guys cannot be stretched to the absurd, so please don't) is:

IRQ street has 15 houses (there abouts)

Some of those houses are occupied by certain devices and they will ALWAYS occupy those houses, such as the floppy diskette, the serial (com ports) etc. Other devices can move house within reason, some devices can share a house with another. The trick is (like all human habitations) is to find the devices that, although in theory can live together, actually like living together.

Essentially by swapping the modem and sound card over, you made them change house, we call it the irq shuffle. Now, they may have ended up in the same irq, but they were put in in a different order, for all we know, the modem might like the bottom bunk....

It varies machine to machine, windows to windows, there is no hard and fast rule, other than you gotta find where they are happiest and no its not as automatic as microsoft would have you think.

[mspitz]

You are great. Your explanations are in a language that all can understand. I am sure you will be hearing more from me and I explore this world of computers. Don't tell anyone but I am system administrator at work. It has been a learn as you go job.

Thanks again.