unrecognised soundcard

[Andy B]

Hi everyone,

A couple of days ago I lost all sound on my system (
except for bleeps ) XP does not recognise my sound device
( Avance AC97 Audio ) I have tried uninstalling the
device and drivers and reinstalling. I have done system
restore and uninstalled the last few programs i
installed. All to no avail. I have also noticed that
start up programs on mty taskbar are no longer loading,
could this be related?

Any help would be appreciated. I cannot use recovery
panel on xp as software came preinstalled with a total
recovery cd only.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Guest]

Without the xp cd it doesnt give you many options,however in hardware mgr.
sounds,under the icon uninstall all,exit out,shutdown computer.You might on restar
chk youre BIOS,advanced chip-set configuration,make sure AC97 is checked,the
save changes and exit,if it is checked,on exit page,select,load set-up defaults,then sav
changes and exit.XP will reinstall all sound configurations on restart,as it does on every reboot.