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re: XP does not recognize my sound card
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 at 1:00 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Andy T
(1 messages posted)
Seems to be a lot on the net about this and similar problems. I installed XP and
no sound!!! - when I tried to check sound devices it just showed a modem. Like XP
had found the modem and thought - that will do nicely for the sound. Maybe it would
have but I had all the speakers plugged into the sound card - which as far as I could
see wasn't even found by XP. Suggestions on net were to remove sound card - restart
- put it back and restart and let XP find it - AND make sure you have the correct
driver ready - also found some mentions of doing things on the BIOS. Gulp! Anyway
- I was ready to remove the card but found a driver CD for Soundblaster so put that
in thinking it was the sound card driver - as it was installing I realised it was
just the drivers for the speakers I had bought. I never actually installed this when
I plugged in the speakers initially (and they worked fine with whatever was on the
PC). Anyway I thought this won't work as its not the driver for the sound card just
the speakers - and as far as I could see (though maybe I missed it) XP hadn't found
the sound card. God this is going on - OK - long story shorter - after install it
said updating drivers - and sound came back. Not sure if the software was clever
enough to search PC to see what sound card was on board and would normally override
any existing drivers.
On Sunday, June 26, 2005 at 5:03 pm, olip wrote:
>same ere i just formated my computer but this time i installed xp pro as i had xp
>home b4 now my sound card which is built in to my motherboard isnt recognized an
>i carnt find how to fix it anywhere!!!!
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