Sound card shows up in Device Manager, but not in the Sounds Apple

[Guest]

I am having trouble with a system that I reloaded. THe onboard sound was
working prior to the reload. The reload was done foe another problem. Now the
sound card shows up in the device manager as working properly, but there is
ono device showing in the sounds applet. The volume control is not there. XP
Pro AMD athlon on a gigagyte board. On board sound, but disabling that and
installing a PCI card makes no difference. I am about to go nuts.

 

[Rock]

I am having trouble with a system that I reloaded. THe onboard sound was
working prior to the reload. The reload was done foe another problem. Now
the
sound card shows up in the device manager as working properly, but there
is
ono device showing in the sounds applet. The volume control is not there.
XP
Pro AMD athlon on a gigagyte board. On board sound, but disabling that and
installing a PCI card makes no difference. I am about to go nuts.

What do you mean by reload? Was it a clean reinstall of the OS? Did you
install the chipset drivers and the drivers for all the hardware devices
including the sound card driver?

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/top10faqs.htm
Where did my Sounds go?

 

[Rock]

I used my Ghost image of the drive that was taken when every thing was
working right. I have since done an upgrade install and downloaded new
drivers.

Upgrade install? Do you mean a repair install aka in place upgrade?

I have also tried disabling the onboard card and using a new one.
The new one shows up in the Device manager as working properly, but when
you
go to the control panel applet it shows that there is no device installed.
I
disabled the on board device in BIOS before dioing this.

I want to avoid a claen install because of the large number of little
programs that my wife uses as a teacher. I could spend all my free time
for
the next 2 weeks reinstalling software.

Ahh the price of marital bliss.

That's why I Ghost her system at
least evey month. This is the last Ghost that had everything working
right.

In device manager under View, check Show hidden devices. Are there any
phantom entries for the sound device shown that you can delete? I
appreciate your pain. I had a sound problem once some time ago on one
system, and the only way I could get things working was a clean install.

Sorry I don't use Ghost, and I don't have any other suggestions for you.