Sound Card

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Rod Gayford

Have a Genius Sound Maker Live 5.1 soundcard that was working under Windows
ME but now doesn't under XP. Found an XP driver for the card. After
downloading unzipped the file to a suitable folder and then tried to update
the driver from th folder, however, the install wizard tells that no
suitable driver can be found in that folder. Any ideas to overcome this
problem would be appreciated or might it be simpler to bin the card and get
a newer one with XP drivers.

Cheers

Rod Gayford
 
Well, that's hard to tell for sure Rod.

If the drivers you downloaded are for XP and also explicitly for that sound
card, then that's good.

I recommend booting into safe mode, and remove all sound devices you have
installed under device manager. Everything!!

Make sure any on board sound devices are disabled in the CMOS of your mother
board. Disable LPT1 ports and COM ports if you don't need them.

When you reboot, hopefully it asks you the location of the driver. If you
point to that directory where your new XP driver exists and it says there is
no suitable driver, then I tend to believe that. It is probably not the
right driver.

Make sure you browse to the right directory under the install driver
directory. Sometimes there are several directories branching from the root.

Did that help?


Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Install a sound driver.
Sound Card
 
Hi William

Doh! I downloaded the wrong driver. The proper driver did wonders.
Thanx for the assistance

Rod G
 
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