sound problems

[elliemaeone]

i took pc with windows me to have new mother board installed. the last board was dead also had another hd installed. i believe this is on board sound, not a pci sound card. i had sound with the other board, have found the drivers from my board manufactuer (micro star) INT K7T PRO (MS-6300). The new sound card drivers don't work either. Usually by the clock u will see the speaker to turn up the volume, that is gone. I went into the multimedia folder in control panel to turn it up. All of the sound controls are grayed out, I can't change them. Is there something missing from windows i need to install? i have removed all multimedia functions from windows and let them reinstall, still same problem.

next problem is windows explorer hogs memory (not internet expolorer). i have to keep ctrl/alt/del to shut off windows explorer.

next problem(tired of this yet?) can't reinstall windows when i reboot the cd should take over and let me reinstall the items i want.

[confus-ed]

Welcome to WD forums elliemaeone.

Your motherboard would appear to be VIA chipset based, so methinks the most likely thing you are short of is things called 'chipset drivers' - try going to this page @ VIAArena (who provide downloads for VIA your chipsets designers) & getting what it calls 'hyperions' or '4-in-1s' (the chipset driver I'm waffling about) for your operating system.

Apply those & then re-try your sound drivers (& I have a feeling it should fix up all your woes !)

btw not being able to boot from your cd is probably something very simple like a bios setting not set by whoever changed your motherboard, which I must say seems an odd arrangement, as I'd have expected them to also do any software fixes while they were at it ?