PC Chips MB CMI8330 sound Drivers for Win2000

Greetings Gurus!

I come seeking help for the obscure once again, I have searched previous posts & found plenty with pointers to <a href="http://www.cmedia.com.tw," target="_blank">http://www.cmedia.com.tw,</a> but this does not solve my issue.

I have a system based around a PC-Chips Motherboard that includes integrated CMI8330 sound. I performed a clean installation of Windows 2000 which detected all hardware except the C-Media Sound. I downloaded & installed the drivers for all sound components from <a href="http://www.pcchips.com/" target="_blank">http://www.pcchips.com/</a> & <a href="http://www.cmedia.com.tw," target="_blank">http://www.cmedia.com.tw,</a> but nothing I downloaded worked for the single yellow exclamation point for the CMI8330 Audio Adapter.

I went to Control Panel>Sounds & Multimedia Properties & saw that the device "CMI8330 Audio Adapter" had the following;

"Location on ALIM1533 PCI to ISA Bridge"
"Device Status: The drivers for this device are not installed".

In Device Manager the following devices are installed under "Sound, Video & Game Controllers:
>Audio Codecs
>CM8330 Audio Driver (WDM)
>C-Media CM8330 Audio Driver (WDM)
>C-Media Game Port
>!CMI8330 Audio Adapter (The one with the yellow exclamation & no driver)
>Legacy Audio Drive
>Legacy Video Capture
>Media Control Devices
>Video Codecs

With all of this, I still have NO SOUND.

Ideas???????

If the drivers don't work, you have Few solutions.

1. Throw the mainboard in the garbage and get a good Asus/abit board. You;ll be happier in the long run.

2. get a Creative sound card. The lives 5.1 are pretty cheap if you get OEM.

3. Take the device in question and force the drivers onto it (do a "driver update") and try different drivers.

4. Make sure that there is no IRQ/DMA sharing.

Personaly i'd go with 1 AND 2, but hopefully 3 and 4 will help ya

Well, it's not my system, so I can't do the former. My time is worth enough to replace the sound though. I've spent well over 3 hours on this so far. I would have been better disabling the integrated sound & adding a sound card. I have several inexpensive ones laying around.

I think I'll do that. I would still be interested in drivers\solutions though. I think I will try "forcing" the driver, just to see if that works.

Some PC-Chips have jumpers on the board that are supposed to disable the onboard sound.

PC-Wave mobo's use PC-Chips chips, and they like to use a modem/soundcard chipset combo, so be sure to make sure the modem works afterwards as well.

The whole motherboard sells for less than $75.

What model and make is this board?

I think this is a 571 MB. The Sound Pro can be disabled in the BIOS. I've done that & I'm installing another sound card (Sound Blaster Live basic PCI.) This MB does not have an integrated Modem. That was the 571LMR version. This has a 56K ISA Hardware modem, so will be unaffected by the disabling of the Sound Pro.

I just heard the Windows Sound at start-up! Thank God! I'm NOT wasting my time with hunting sound drivers EVER again! It's cheaper to buy a Sound Blaster sound card than spend the time, even if I don't charge the client for it. I will ask them to pay "cost" on it in this case since they didn't pre-approve the installation. I can replace this card for roughly $20 including shipping.

Thanks for all posts!

I have the same problem. I don't have the money to buy a new card though.

Welcome to Windrivers sisofmine

Which PC-Chips motherboard do you have?
What windows are you running?
What is the error code in the device manager for the 8330 sound?