I need to know what these drivers are

[villandra]

I need to know what these drivers are and what they do, so that I can
know wehtehr I may need to remove tehm to get my sound card to work,
and also if it is safe to remove them or what other programs need them.
Google won't tell me, and neither will tech support at IBM which made
the computer. I don't know if they are microsoft drivers, but they
are if my
computer needs me to keep them, and my brother in law thinks they may
be.

All under multimedia, sound and games in Windows XP device manager.

Legacy video capure device - WDM video for windows
Device manager refuses to tell me the actual name of this file, which
means I can't make a copy and put it in a safe place.

Microsoft kernel system drivers - two drivers, one by Microsoft, adn
one by Logitech. I do have the names of the driver files.

Microsoft WDM Audio compatibility drivers. Two drivers, one by
Microsoft, one by Logitech. I do have the names of teh driver files.

Yours,
Dora Smith

 

[villandra]

Here is a link to the discussion of one of the drivers.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._21ab0cf3-f7a7-4f6f-93db-a4b7e9eef24f.xml.asp


Is this just a genetic Windows audio driver that I need for anything
audio to work, or do I need to uninstall it because it is interefering
wtih the ability of my Soundblaster aubigny SE card to work?

Or is it something I need to re-install or update in order to get the
Soundblaster to work - wehre I previously had onboard sound?

Yours,
Dora Smith

 

[Jim]

Here is a link to the discussion of one of the drivers.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._21ab0cf3-f7a7-4f6f-93db-a4b7e9eef24f.xml.asp


Is this just a genetic Windows audio driver that I need for anything
audio to work, or do I need to uninstall it because it is interefering
wtih the ability of my Soundblaster aubigny SE card to work?

Or is it something I need to re-install or update in order to get the
Soundblaster to work - wehre I previously had onboard sound?

Yours,
Dora Smith

Does the onboard sound need to be disabled in the BIOS?
Jim

 

[Dora Smith]

I disabled it. It didn't help. Actually, sisabling "sound support" in
bios put an end to the fact that the system sounds were playing, even though
the only speakers the computer is able to use are connected directly to the
sound card that isn't working. But that is the only reference to sound in
bios, and the board had onboard sound

Now can someone please TELL ME WHAT THESE DRIVERS ARE. Thanks!