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Can't get sound to work on Intel board
Hi all,
I have a computer in which the motherboard died, so I attached the drives to a newer motherboard (an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard). The hard drive has Windows ME installed so I booted into safe mode and removed all of the devices under the device manager and then rebooted normally. After letting it find devices and rebooting a few times and then removing duplicate devices and rebooting a couple more times, I ended up with 2 things not working. One of the devices not working correctly is "Motherboard Extension for PNP BIOS" (or something like that), it has an exclamation mark next to it. Not sure if this is actually causing a problem with other things or not. The other device is the sound. The motherboard has built in Yamaha sound for which ME found drivers and says it is installed with no conflicts but when I try and test the sound (by playing a .wav file) it says that "Windows cannot play the sound - your soundcard may already be in use". I have run into this before with the built in sound and solved the problem by installing a seperate sound card. I tried installing 3 other sound cards in this computer and had the same results as the built in: "your sound card may already be in use". The sound cards were all Creative Sound Blaster cards but different models. Every time, the driver is loaded and it looks like it should work, but I get nothing from it. I am at my wits end and cannot think of anything else to try. If anyone can help, I would apreciate it greatly. TIA, Jon |
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"Jon Greene" wrote in message ... Hi all, I have a computer in which the motherboard died, so I attached the drives to a newer motherboard (an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard). The hard drive has Windows ME installed so I booted into safe mode and removed all of the devices under the device manager and then rebooted normally. After letting it find devices and rebooting a few times and then removing duplicate devices and rebooting a couple more times, I ended up with 2 things not working. Don't expect this to work... It does in many cases, but you can't count on it. I'd be backing up important data and doing a fresh install. |
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In Control Panel / Sounds select no sound scheme. Reboot and close any programs that start automatically. See if you can then play a WAV file. See if you can play a MIDI file. Jon Greene wrote: Hi all, I have a computer in which the motherboard died, so I attached the drives to a newer motherboard (an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard). The hard drive has Windows ME installed so I booted into safe mode and removed all of the devices under the device manager and then rebooted normally. After letting it find devices and rebooting a few times and then removing duplicate devices and rebooting a couple more times, I ended up with 2 things not working. One of the devices not working correctly is "Motherboard Extension for PNP BIOS" (or something like that), it has an exclamation mark next to it. Not sure if this is actually causing a problem with other things or not. The other device is the sound. The motherboard has built in Yamaha sound for which ME found drivers and says it is installed with no conflicts but when I try and test the sound (by playing a .wav file) it says that "Windows cannot play the sound - your soundcard may already be in use". I have run into this before with the built in sound and solved the problem by installing a seperate sound card. I tried installing 3 other sound cards in this computer and had the same results as the built in: "your sound card may already be in use". The sound cards were all Creative Sound Blaster cards but different models. Every time, the driver is loaded and it looks like it should work, but I get nothing from it. I am at my wits end and cannot think of anything else to try. If anyone can help, I would apreciate it greatly. TIA, Jon -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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