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February 11th, 2007, 03:18 PM
#1
No soundcards showing in ctrl panel
Have just picked up a pc donated to my gf by another friend which had a faulty CDROM (turned out just to required a couple of reg keys needed deleting) and with no sound.
On closer inspection in the control panel, I couldn' select any options for the system to use sound - all the available options were greyed out.
No conflicts present in device manager, but I updated drivers anyway and tried re-scanning.
Speaking to a friend, he said he ran into a similar problem and just fitted a new soundcard. Being lazy, I did just this and same problem.
The PC is a packard bell iMedia running winxp (home) sp2 and patched current as of last night. Original soundcard was on-board, new one is unbranded chinese manufactured one listed in deviceman as a CMI8738.
When I installed the new one I turned off the onboard sound in the BIOS.
Any thoughts?
I'll try and take a screenshot of what I mean in the control panel and post it up in a sec.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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February 11th, 2007, 03:25 PM
#2
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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February 11th, 2007, 04:43 PM
#3
You didn't mention installing drivers for the soundcard - is it supposedly supported by XP? Is it P&P and is P&P enabled Bios and Admin Services?
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February 12th, 2007, 05:49 AM
#4
yes the drivers were installed on the new one too - it was pnp enabled and the drvers were correctly installed
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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February 12th, 2007, 08:15 AM
#5
Look at this site, take their advice and let us know of your progress - tx
http://netlab.gmu.edu/classwise/sound_card.html
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February 13th, 2007, 11:38 PM
#6
Click Start
Run
type in
Services.msc
scroll down to Windows Audio
Double click the service
Make sure it is started and set to automatic
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