nForce 2 audio won't recognize?!?

[Guest]

I have an abit NF7-S motherboard which comes with an onboard sound card. When I instaled windowsXP professional and installed all the updated drivers for all my hardware, I cannot get the audio to work

1 when I installed windowsXP from my cd, I got an error that it could not find STREAMCI.DLL. I skiped it to complete the install and downloaded the dll later and put it in my WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder.
2 Control Panel - Sounds and Audio Devices lists no audo devic
3 Device manager - Sound, Video and game controlers lists my nForce audio codec and Audio processing unit, it also lists them as working properly, with signed drivers and no conflicts
4 the utility that comes with the audio drivers gives me an error that it does not detect any nForce audio on my computer and then shuts itself down.

is this an OS-Hardware compatibility issue

I'm at a total loss and if I can't fix this soon I'll have to head to the store to get a new sound card please let me know of any tips or tricks to fix this

Thanks!

 

[Rich Barry]

Rob, check here
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1066427444

I have an abit NF7-S motherboard which comes with an onboard sound card.

When I instaled windowsXP professional and installed all the updated drivers
for all my hardware, I cannot get the audio to work.

1 when I installed windowsXP from my cd, I got an error that it could not

find STREAMCI.DLL. I skiped it to complete the install and downloaded the
dll later and put it in my WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder.

2 Control Panel - Sounds and Audio Devices lists no audo device
3 Device manager - Sound, Video and game controlers lists my nForce audio

codec and Audio processing unit, it also lists them as working properly,
with signed drivers and no conflicts.

4 the utility that comes with the audio drivers gives me an error that it

does not detect any nForce audio on my computer and then shuts itself down.

is this an OS-Hardware compatibility issue?

I'm at a total loss and if I can't fix this soon I'll have to head to the

store to get a new sound card please let me know of any tips or tricks
to fix this!