sound/motherboard issues

[glacious]

My motherboard is not recognizing any sound card that i install. I have tried both PCI slots, and have disabled/enabled my onboard chipset sound without any success. my computer simply will not recognize my sound card.

i have tried two sound cards (one of them i just bought to check and make sure my sound card didnt fry or something).

When i enable the onboard sound, windows does recognize that. However, i long ago threw out the onboard sound card, because it didn't work, so thats not an option.

Don't know whats up!!

i have an a-bit fatal1ty aa8xe motherboard. the two soundcards i have tried are a diamond and a sound blaster audigy - both without success.

[saphalline]

The mobo doesn't need to recognize the sound card. The OS does.

What OS are you using? Have you tried another? Like a live Linux CD?

[glacious]

im using windows XP, and it was working fine before, but then i tried installing a new sound card which didnt work and things started going haywire.

i dont have any other operating systems available to me unless i buy them. is reformatting an option?

[mjc]

Linux LiveCDs are available for free, legal download from the particular distro's site...

Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.net/)


PC LinuxOS (http://www.pclinuxos.com/)

Kubuntu (http://www.kubuntu.org/)

No Linux experience needed. Just download and burn the ISO. after it is done, reboot, set the BIOS to boot to the optical disk or use the override to boot to it. All three of those should autoconfigure the sound. If the hardware isn't working, then there is a hardware problem and not a software problem. Conversely, if it does work then your problem is with Windows.