I get no sound

[khashyar7]

I just swaped my hard drives with new ones, so had to reimage the machine...everything went pretty much smoothly, until I tried to get the sound card to work !

I had initially let the mainboard install the onboard drivers for the onborad sound card by mistake...not being aware of that fact, I just went ahead and installed the drivers for my Creative Audigy 2 sound card as well! no sound coming out!
Then I figured maybe there's a conflict between the onborad sound and the sound card, so I disabled them through Control Panel/Device Manager...no luck still
So I went to Bios and tuggled the onboard sound card to Disabled in the Peripheral section...still no luck!
I thought perhaps now reinstalling the sound card would help so I removed the sound card and put it in another PCI slot, hoping it would get recognized again and would reinstall it, but no reaction from the system when I restarted...
Please help!!!

Thanks,

Kash

 

[electronicsfreak]

Completely uninstall the drivers for the card, put the disc in that contains the drivers for it, install them, restart computer and you should have sound.

 

[franklin97355]

Don't forget to turn off the onboard sound if you are not going to use it (in the BIOS)

The answer has always been 42

 

[khashyar7]

p.s. electronicsfreak:

I did uninstall every driver that looked like is relevent to the sound card, but I don't get the "new hardware detected" notification now, so can go ahead and reinstall it...

 

[electronicsfreak]

Have you tried another sound card?

 

[dglienna]

What sound devices are in Device Manager?

-David
2006 Microsoft Valued Professional (MVP)

 

[khashyar7]

Very interesting!

I noticed when I uninstall all the drivers and reboot, the "new hardware" gets recognized and I install the drivers through the wizard...sound starts working, but as soon as I run the setup from the CD to install the Creative Media Centre and restart, sound goes away!!! so I passed on the goodness of creative media centre (which is not much anyways) and happy to get the sound working

Kash