OT for XP.

[barry]

Hi.
Sorry this is long post.

I asked a Q inhere a few days back on behalf of a friend as
he had to do a reinstall of VISTA premium and after doing so
he had no sound,was advised to find out sound card manufacture
and download drivers .

After much messing about driver download was not possible
as advised on a Microsoft site that the driver were a joint development
between Microsoft and Phillips and drivers were not available for the
download ,but built into Vista and Vista should assign them.
only one card in pci slot in computer ,appears to be video/sound and
maybe other things all on one card..
We remover card,restarted comp without card installed,waited 5 mins,
shut down comp,refited card in hope that Vista would detect in as
new hardware found and assign drivers but it did not.

After Google it appears to be a very common Problem with Vista losing
sound and not easy to fix.

Prior to doing a complete reinstall of Vista we tried a Vista repair disc
which appeared to be doing something then after a while told it was done
and to reboot computer ,however it was not repaired and just just kept
going round in circles and got nowhere.

Has been sorted now by going into the Bios and changing two items
that were disabled (can't remember what now) saved, come out of Bios,
Vista booted up and sound was working fine.

So the real reason for my visits this time ( just thought I'd try to explain
above as to this Q)
Can doing a Vista repair OR full reinstall change settings in the Bios ??.


I thought the only way things changed in Bios was that you had to do it and
save
new settings OR you got a virus.

Look forward to opins please.
Baz

 

[Erwin Moller]

barry schreef:

Hi.
Sorry this is long post.

I asked a Q inhere a few days back on behalf of a friend as
he had to do a reinstall of VISTA premium and after doing so
he had no sound,was advised to find out sound card manufacture
and download drivers .

After much messing about driver download was not possible
as advised on a Microsoft site that the driver were a joint development
between Microsoft and Phillips and drivers were not available for the
download ,but built into Vista and Vista should assign them.
only one card in pci slot in computer ,appears to be video/sound and
maybe other things all on one card..
We remover card,restarted comp without card installed,waited 5 mins,
shut down comp,refited card in hope that Vista would detect in as
new hardware found and assign drivers but it did not.

After Google it appears to be a very common Problem with Vista losing
sound and not easy to fix.

Prior to doing a complete reinstall of Vista we tried a Vista repair disc
which appeared to be doing something then after a while told it was done
and to reboot computer ,however it was not repaired and just just kept
going round in circles and got nowhere.

Has been sorted now by going into the Bios and changing two items
that were disabled (can't remember what now) saved, come out of Bios,
Vista booted up and sound was working fine.

So the real reason for my visits this time ( just thought I'd try to explain
above as to this Q)
Can doing a Vista repair OR full reinstall change settings in the Bios ??.

Hi,

Allthough many modern motherboards allow software to update the BIOS, I
don't think Vista does this.

I expect you accidently disabled the BIOS sound setting (or maybe your
BIOS disabled it when it coundn't find the hardware, hard to say.)

Regards,
Erwin Moller

I thought the only way things changed in Bios was that you had to do it and
save
new settings OR you got a virus.

Look forward to opins please.
Baz

--
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the
other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."
-- C.A.R. Hoare

 

[Daave]

Hi.
Sorry this is long post.

I asked a Q inhere a few days back on behalf of a friend as
he had to do a reinstall of VISTA premium

<snip>

It may off topic for this group, but not for the following one:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Why aren't you asking in a Vista newsgroup?
: Hi.
: Sorry this is long post.
:
: I asked a Q inhere a few days back on behalf of a friend as
: he had to do a reinstall of VISTA premium and after doing so
: he had no sound,was advised to find out sound card manufacture
: and download drivers .
:
: After much messing about driver download was not possible
: as advised on a Microsoft site that the driver were a joint development
: between Microsoft and Phillips and drivers were not available for the
: download ,but built into Vista and Vista should assign them.
: only one card in pci slot in computer ,appears to be video/sound and
: maybe other things all on one card..
: We remover card,restarted comp without card installed,waited 5 mins,
: shut down comp,refited card in hope that Vista would detect in as
: new hardware found and assign drivers but it did not.
:
: After Google it appears to be a very common Problem with Vista losing
: sound and not easy to fix.
:
: Prior to doing a complete reinstall of Vista we tried a Vista repair disc
: which appeared to be doing something then after a while told it was done
: and to reboot computer ,however it was not repaired and just just kept
: going round in circles and got nowhere.
:
: Has been sorted now by going into the Bios and changing two items
: that were disabled (can't remember what now) saved, come out of Bios,
: Vista booted up and sound was working fine.
:
: So the real reason for my visits this time ( just thought I'd try to
explain
: above as to this Q)
: Can doing a Vista repair OR full reinstall change settings in the Bios
??.
:
:
: I thought the only way things changed in Bios was that you had to do it
and
: save
: new settings OR you got a virus.
:
: Look forward to opins please.
: Baz
:
:
:
:
:

 

[barry]

"Erwin Moller"

barry schreef:

Allthough many modern motherboards allow software to update the BIOS, I
don't think Vista does this.

I expect you accidently disabled the BIOS sound setting (or maybe your

BIOS disabled it when it coundn't find the hardware, hard to say.)

Regards,
Erwin Moller

Hi Etwin.
Thanks for the repy.

Definitly did not accidently disabled anything.

Today was first time ever been into Bios,thanks anyway.
Will take my Q's eslewhere.

Baz