Got no sound. :(

[Cottonmouth]

I have just gone thru hell and emerged reasonably unscathed!
My brother-in-law got a new computer and gave me his old one. It's a 1.67
gigahertz AMD Athlon XP. Granted, this in today's world is kinda old'n
slow but a helluva lot faster/better than the 400mhz I was running.

I thought, well hell, I'll just throw my hard-drive in there to replace
his much smaller one and be on my way. If only it were that easy!

To make it short, I ended up booting from the XP cd and having to do a
repair(?) and even this wouldn't boot. Being persistent, I kept having
to boot from the cd and doing the repair routine and not getting a boot.
Reason given was 'no NTLDR'. For some reason the NT loader wasn't
installing. After about the fifth or sixth repair install, it finally
found the loader and it began booting. I'm thinking that I'd lost
everything on the drive for sure, but I got my old system back just as it
was before.
"With one exception." I have no sound!

This motherboard has built-in sound, but I wanted to use my sound card.
It's a YAMAHA DS-XG PCI card. It worked fine in the old system and I was
used to it. I installed the Yamaha drivers, rebooted, and still have no
sound. I don't get the sound icon in my tray. When I open 'system', the
yellow question marks are on an 'unknown device'. For whatever reason,
this system isn't recognizing the sound card. I've checked to make sure
it's seated in the slot. I'm about out of ideas.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'll post some info from Belarc. Maybe it'll mean something to someone.


Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6738
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG
YAMAHA DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC (WDM)
512 Meg Ram

Gotta have my sound! Porn isn't any good without the sounds! LOL!

 

[W****n S***********g]

I have just gone thru hell and emerged reasonably unscathed!
My brother-in-law got a new computer and gave me his old one. It's a 1.67
gigahertz AMD Athlon XP. Granted, this in today's world is kinda old'n
slow but a helluva lot faster/better than the 400mhz I was running.

I thought, well hell, I'll just throw my hard-drive in there to replace
his much smaller one and be on my way. If only it were that easy!

To make it short, I ended up booting from the XP cd and having to do a
repair(?) and even this wouldn't boot. Being persistent, I kept having
to boot from the cd and doing the repair routine and not getting a boot.
Reason given was 'no NTLDR'. For some reason the NT loader wasn't
installing. After about the fifth or sixth repair install, it finally
found the loader and it began booting. I'm thinking that I'd lost
everything on the drive for sure, but I got my old system back just as it
was before.
"With one exception." I have no sound!

This motherboard has built-in sound, but I wanted to use my sound card.
It's a YAMAHA DS-XG PCI card. It worked fine in the old system and I was
used to it. I installed the Yamaha drivers, rebooted, and still have no
sound. I don't get the sound icon in my tray. When I open 'system', the
yellow question marks are on an 'unknown device'. For whatever reason,
this system isn't recognizing the sound card. I've checked to make sure
it's seated in the slot. I'm about out of ideas.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'll post some info from Belarc. Maybe it'll mean something to someone.


Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6738
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG
YAMAHA DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC (WDM)
512 Meg Ram

Gotta have my sound! Porn isn't any good without the sounds! LOL!

You just look at pictures anyways.


Did you clean the contacts with some alcohol? All contacts?

Disable on board sound?

Try to reinstall drivers for sound card. I know my audigy2 drivers took me
about 2 hours one time to get to work. Bastard drivers.

 

[Cottonmouth]

You just look at pictures anyways.


Did you clean the contacts with some alcohol? All contacts?

Disable on board sound?

Try to reinstall drivers for sound card. I know my audigy2 drivers
took me about 2 hours one time to get to work. Bastard drivers.

Admittedly, I didn't clean the contacts in the slot, but did rub a pencil
eraser on the card contacts. They were clean.

I must have been into the bios 20 times and I don't recall any place
where I could disable onboard sound. Is it somewhere else?

I'll keep trying to reload the drivers tho. I know that XP sometimes
takes several tries to get anything done!

Thanks for the reply!