Re: No Sound



....after rereading this thread, I should add, XP is VERY good at stuffing in
quite reliable drivers for the humungus range of hardware found on
motherboards :-) ...so you're probably right, XP could see your onboard
sound chip and installed drivers for it.

regards, Richard


"RJK" <notatospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My answer, "Windows really gets it's knickers in a twist if it can see two
sound chips !" really covered it !
You must switch off an on-motherboard sound chip in bios, BEFORE fitting a
PCI soundcard as previously explained, it's as simple as that.

It sounds as though there are various entries under "Sound, Video and Game
Contollers" in Device Manager, for the onboard sound chip, ...as you say.
...and there could be applications installed e.g. a "hi-fi rack" that
would make use of the onboard sound chip, this could be uninstalled, or
ignored.

You could tidy up "Sound, Video and Game Contollers" in Device Manager,
and uninstall those entries that belong to the onboard sound chip, if
they're still there after switching it off in bios and rebooting, ...take
care to not, for example remove a "Unimodem half-duplex Audio device" that
would belong to a pci-data/fax/voice modem, if you use or have one
installed.

Switch off the onboard sound chip in bios, save changes in bios and boot
up, and run your SB drivers & apps. cd. and all should be hunky dory :-)

regards, Richard


"dmoritz" <dmoritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your reply, Richard. I haven't changed any bios
settings...all I
did was reinstall XP, so I'm wondering if it could be something else. My
sound worked fine until I reinstalled my operating system. There are
many
things listed in device mgr. under sound, video. Could windows have
inadvertently setup the onboard sound and this is conflicting with my SB
Live! card? I'm just confused as to what to do next to resolve the
problem.
Thank you again for your response.

Best Regards,

"RJK" wrote:

Switched off the motherboard sound chip in bios, if there's one on your
board ?, ...Windows really gets it's knickers in a twist if it can see
two
sound chips !

regards, Richard


"dmoritz" <dmoritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I recently reinstalled Win Xp and for some reason I have no sound. I
have
a
SB Live! sound card installed. When I look in control panel under
Sounds
and
Audio Devices it doesn't show no devices in the volume tab, but lists
several
under the hardware tab. In Device Mgr. it lists my SB Live! under the
Sound,
video, and game controllers section, but it lists many other things as
well.
Could I have some kind of device driver conflict? If so, how would I
know?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance for your time
and
attention to my question.









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