help, lost audio from onboard sound card

**acoustic*carl** · March 13th, 2005, 11:36 PM

i will try to be as in depth as i can about my situation. hopefully somebody can help me?

i get a lot of extraneous noise in my computer speakers (noise from the mouse, etc.) after reading many threads i realized that could be caused from many things. anyway i borowed a sound card from a friend so that i could see if that would eliminate the problem.

the sound card was a trident 4dwave dated 1998. i could not find a driver to make it work. so i uninstalled and tried to use my onboard sound card again and now i have no sound.

i have uninstalled and reinstalled in the device manager
device manager says that everything is working properly
sounds and audio devices only shows "modem # 0 line playback"
sound is enabled in BIOS
speakers are on (still get mouse noise) and plugged in
i even tried several restore points and that didn't wor either

here are the details:
Computer is a Micron PC Intel pentium III
Motherboard is Tazer - Tyan S1854 via 133a 4x with integrated components
Onboard Sound is Creative AudioPCI (ES1371, ES1373)(WDM)

please help if you can, thank you

**hudsonsmith** · March 14th, 2005, 12:28 PM

Driver here: ftp://ftp.tyan.com/audio/creative/13...1373driver.zip

**acoustic*carl** · March 14th, 2005, 02:16 PM

thanks for the link, however, the driver did not work.
hardware wizard said somthing like "can't install driver because it is not better than the current driver"
any suggestions?

**hudsonsmith** · March 14th, 2005, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by acoustic*carl

thanks for the link, however, the driver did not work.
hardware wizard said somthing like "can't install driver because it is not better than the current driver"
any suggestions?

Isn't there a setup.exe file packed in there? If not, follow the selections to select the driver manually and point it to the location you unzipped the download.

**acoustic*carl** · March 14th, 2005, 04:04 PM

i did unzip the file and manually point it to the location of the download

**geoscomp** · March 16th, 2005, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by acoustic*carl

i did unzip the file and manually point it to the location of the download

so when you unzipped the file, was there a setup.exe icon in the unzipped file? If so, did you double click on that to run the setup program? If not, what did you point to the file? You have no sound card installed yet, so there is nothing to point to it..all you have installed is your modem sound

**acoustic*carl** · March 16th, 2005, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by acoustic*carl

i will try to be as in depth as i can about my situation. hopefully somebody can help me?

i get a lot of extraneous noise in my computer speakers (noise from the mouse, etc.) after reading many threads i realized that could be caused from many things. anyway i borowed a sound card from a friend so that i could see if that would eliminate the problem.

the sound card was a trident 4dwave dated 1998. i could not find a driver to make it work. so i uninstalled and tried to use my onboard sound card again and now i have no sound.

i have uninstalled and reinstalled in the device manager
device manager says that everything is working properly
sounds and audio devices only shows "modem # 0 line playback"
sound is enabled in BIOS
speakers are on (still get mouse noise) and plugged in
i even tried several restore points and that didn't wor either

here are the details:
Computer is a Micron PC Intel pentium III
Motherboard is Tazer - Tyan S1854 via 133a 4x with integrated components
Onboard Sound is Creative AudioPCI (ES1371, ES1373)(WDM)

please help if you can, thank you

Does anyone have any ideas. I was given a link to a driver. the driver did not fix the problem.