Re: Win ME to XP Upgrade Difficulties

From: CS (nomail_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/29/04


Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:43:56 -0600

On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 11:23:41 -0800, "Larry H."
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>HI,
>
>I have a 700 mhz AMD Athalon desktop processor with 512
>mb of RAM and a Sound Blaster sound card....
>
>I have purchased and installed the XP Upgrade to move
>from Win ME (yuk) on this machine and all appears to be
>working beautifully EXCEPT for the sounds.
>
>NONE of the sounds are correct, sounding like a garbled
>mess. Under the previous operating system, ALL worked
>extremely well. I have donwloaded the latest drivers for
>the sound blaster card and that doesn't seem to help.
>
>Can anyone give me a clue of how to elimnate this problem
>and get on with Win. XP.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help.
>Larry

You need to remove the SB Card from Hardware Devices and remove all
the drivers that were previously installed. Reboot. Let XP detect
the card and install its own internal drivers. Most SB cards are
internally supported by XP and do not need drivers loaded.



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