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  1. February 11th, 2007, 03:18 PM #1
    rscos
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    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.
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  2. February 11th, 2007, 03:25 PM #2
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    screenshots:









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  3. February 11th, 2007, 04:43 PM #3
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    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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  4. February 12th, 2007, 05:49 AM #4
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    yes the drivers were installed on the new one too - it was pnp enabled and the drvers were correctly installed
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  5. February 12th, 2007, 08:15 AM #5
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    Look at this site, take their advice and let us know of your progress - tx

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  6. February 13th, 2007, 11:38 PM #6
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    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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