No sound

[mrshovelhands]

Hi everyone.
Here's a problem that's making me pull what's left of my hair out.
Doing a favour for a mate who wanted his system formatted, and reinstalled. I asked him to make sure he had all the drivers there on disk (graphics, modem, sound etc) and he said "yep, no problem, I got them from last time".
Everything was going well until I tried to find the driver for the sound (you guessed it - NO DRIVER). I described the disk to him, and he said he must have thrown it out. I was going to download drivers off the net, but the sound is "on-board" and not a nice easy pci card that I can take out and read the name off. I have never had anything to do with on-board sound, so I am up a certain creek without a certain paddle. If I can't find a way of obtaining a driver for the on-board sound, is it possible to just put a pci sound card in and use that instead?

Any help with this will be appreciated.

Many thanks.

PS his system is a thrown together one, but it is run by an AMD Athlon 800mhz board.

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Before you criticise a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes. After that you can call him anything you want, 'cos he's a mile away, and you've got his shoes.

[Rick]

The best place to start is with the mother board.
Open the case and find the mother board make and model .
Or write down the Bios Number during post.

Then Visit http://www.motherboards.org/index.html
or one of the other motherboard help site,
To find who made the mother board.

Then visit the manufacturers site and get the correct sound drivers from there

[mrshovelhands]

Cheers Rick.

The lad who owns the computer, has gone and bought a new sound card for the machine (instead of waiting for me to try and locate a driver).

Am I likely to have any problems getting the system to use the card instead of the on board sound that it should be using? I expect to have problems locating the leads from the cd player and the cd writer and placing them onto the appropriate pins on the soundcard, but am more worried about getting the machine to use the card as opposed to the on board.

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Before you criticise a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes. After that you can call him anything you want, 'cos he's a mile away, and you've got his shoes.

[Whyzman]

Should be pretty straight forward with the installation manual from your sound card as to where to place the lines from your CD etc. It is possible that the sound card may not support two separate devices.

You would need to enter the BIOS and disable the onboard sound. I've heard of some sound cards just "overwriting" the onboard without disabling in the BIOS, but I would suggest disabling as a matter of course.

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May all your dealings in life be win/win!


Whyzman
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[mrshovelhands]

Cheers Whyzman

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Before you criticise a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes. After that you can call him anything you want, 'cos he's a mile away, and you've got his shoes.

[iisbob]

Seems like everyone else has pretty much pinpointed your problem/solution, i just wanted to add that i love your quote. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif


Before you criticise a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes. After that you can call him anything you want, 'cos he's a mile away, and you've got his shoes.



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iisbob

Hike naked!-it gives color to your cheeks!!

[Whyzman]

I agree! Just read it to my wife and we had a pretty good chuckle! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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May all your dealings in life be win/win!


Whyzman
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Reserved for Punishing Humor...A Pessimist's blood is always B-negative!