tried everything i can think still yellow excl!

well i have an asus mobo (A7v8x-x) and i had to reinstall windows on my box cause i had a power outage when i was upgrading to sp2 and when i went to repair xp it wouldnt let me so i just humbly reinstalled everything. except i can not find my mobo disk and had to look up all the drivers on the net. i believe i have everything that i need but none of them seem to fix my sound issues. i have searched the threads and seen some of the answers given in this case but none really fit my postion.

yellow exlamation points are as follows

multimedai controller
and
multimedia video controller

i am not to worried about the video one cause i have a separte ati radeon 1300 and it works fine. but i installed the soundmax file on the asus website for the xp version i also installed the 4in1 pack but i am still without sound. i found a couple other files mentioned in some posts and tried to use them but one of them i am still clueless about file (a7v8xx08.awd) not sure what that one is for
any help getting my sound back on would be great

You may need to uninstall your sound in device manager before you reinstall new sound drivers.Go to the site below. Find File Version 5.12.01.3663


SoundMAX Audio Driver version 5.12.01.3663 WHQL driver for Windows 98SE,ME,2000,XP ( File size 18.9MB )....

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us

i downloaded that same file that was linked. i still have it on my desktop. i uninstalled the yellow !'s and restarted and tried to run setup file and still no luck. ill try again for the heck of it but other help would be nice.

The definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting diffrent results.

Do you have any other multimedia cards in your computer such as a tv-tuner or capture card? Can you post a screenshot of your device manager and/or run this utility linked here to tell us device info about your system? I am thinking there is another multimedia device in there somewhere you are overlooking.

http://majorgeeks.com/download181.html

ok now that i have those ! points gone cause i had a satalite card in the box that i dont use anymore, i removed it from the slot and no more yellow error. but sad to say i still have no sound :mad: patiently problem solving this matter........... now i have these in my sound video and game controllers list.

audio codecs
legacy audio drivers
legacy video capture devices
media control decives
soundmax intregrated digital audio
standard game port
video codecs


and all seem to be working propperly

still looking for help

Well judging from your device manager list it looks like the sound card is installed. I have had similar situations on some of the Dell Optiplex systems we use at the school (they use SoundMax audio too). Can you tell me if you go to control panel and go to Sounds and Audio devices. If you double click and open Sounds and Audio Devices does it list your sound card or does it say something like no audio device installed? Because I have seen this before where in device manager it says everything is functional, but control panel says there is nothing there. I tried everything with those systems too and the only thing that worked was replacing the motherboard as the sound is integrated. Speaking with Dell Premiere Access technical support they told me that there was a problem with the SoundMax chipset revision in some of the computers which was fixed on their later motherboards.

woot woot i have no clue what i did but i have some sound now i was just messing with the sound options in the ctrl pannel. all of them said it was working but i just messed around changed a few windows default sounds and hit apply then went into sound max and hit test sound and it ended up working

well i feel alot better now but i couldnt tell you why it started working. and the ! points were from another card like bob said. thanks to all who tried to help

Glad you got it working. Computers are very moody sometimes. I can't tell you how many times I got something working and had no idea what I did to make it work.