Re: Sounblaster Recognition

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From: StANTo
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 18:43

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disable the on-board soundcard in either the bios or on the motherboard
(preferable) or in device manager.

it sounds like the computer's reverting to the onboard soundcard and
ignoring the new one.

"Andrew Dodds" <andydodds@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:9t6a4v$ego$1@uranium.btinternet.com...
> I am helping a friend upgrade his system, which now consists of:
> AMD Duron 900
> Gigabyte GA7-DXR BIOS F6, AMD chipset.
> 256MB DDR RAM
> Voodoo3 3000 16MB video
> SB Live Value
> 300w ATX power
> Sony CD-RW
> Toshiba DVD
> Windows ME
>
> I cannot get the system to utilise the soundcard, Wiindows recognises it
and
> loads the software yet on rebooting the computer has no sound.  There is
no
> volume icon in the tray and in the Sounds and Multimedia section in
Control
> Panel there is no recording or playback device listed.  In System
properties
> all devices are listed as working properly, no exclamation marks
whatsoever.
> I have tried re-installing, the card, it used IRQ5 then IRQ11 but the
result
> was the same.  I then tried using the onboard Creative sound and again
there
> was nothing.  I am completely baffled.
>
> Any advice appreciated
>
> Andy Dodds
>
>

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