Sound Card Issues

#1 glockzilla

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Posted 09 October 2008 - 04:55 PM

I have an issue with my on-board sound card. I'm getting an error that says the device driver is either corrupted or cannot be found.

I've attempted to reinstall the drivers, and I still get the same error. I've also ran McAffee Virus Scanner and Ad-Aware.

Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? I'm stumped

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 05:09 AM

Check the bios to see if there is a setting there for onboard sound. Make sure you have the most unpdated drivers.

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 12:26 PM

Update:

I installed an extra PCI Soundblaster card my roomate had, DL'd the latest drivers, and I'm getting the same error that I got with my On-board Sound card.

At this point, I'm quite frustrated. I'm hoping its software? But I'm not sure. I'll check the BIOS and see if there's a setting there.

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Posted 10 October 2008 - 02:07 PM

Updatex2: So looking online, a lot of people are having issues with XP Service Pack 3 and drivers. I'll keep looking, but if anyone knows a fix I'd buy them cookies.

...seriously.

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Posted 16 October 2008 - 03:33 PM

Well the first problem is you shouldn't get any audio drivers from Mcaffee or adaware, so get those off of your sound things immediately.

Second, go to system properties - hardware list and remove whatever audio piss is floating in your man-pool (let me know if I'm using too tekie of terms).

Next... after seconds... minutes, restart and see what your xp thinks it found. If there's 2 things, then it's obviously on-broad and pcici card of the future. A sure fired way of knowing you get the right stuff from here is going to windows update and seeing what that finds for hardware needing things. If not in the list, kick Gates balls and install the driver yourself, but whichever you choose to install make sure to disable the other.

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Posted 16 October 2008 - 04:03 PM

glockzilla, on Oct 9 2008, 08:55 PM, said:

what sound card .. ie model mother board .. ie is this a dell or oem motherboard ?

if it is a dell look for a service tag .. same applies to a gateway or hp system ..dell uses a service tag and drivers are easy to find ..hp and other makers like gateway use a serial number ..motherboard makers use the name and model and version of the motherboard

as to other onboard sound issiues ...is the driver enabled in your bios ?

and sorry glock i'm good at fixing hardware issiues .. but i'm not physic so i have no idea what kinda system you have or it's properties .. more hardware info would help

also what Operating system are you useing ?

what motherboard ?..make model .. or is this an OEM system like dell , hp , compaq ?

if so use service pak 2 not 3 as not all manufactures support service pak 3 for XP yet

also dump mcaffe ..get some real program .. like avast 4 home ..as far as fire wall use winblows firewall and windows defender

cant tell ya how many systems i have worked on that had that crap mcaffe software in it and did not detect a simple virus ..ran avg or avast on em ..found tons of infected files ..mcaffe free internet security SUX ..thats why it's offered free

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Posted 16 October 2008 - 04:04 PM

also dont listen to werido ....do not use a winblows driver .. get the right driver for your hardware

there are no updated drivers for old soundblaster PCI cards

you can id the card by the numbers on it

then go to driverguide.com and register and search ..again i have no clue what OS your trying to use and no ...older hardware will not work with MS vista ..unless you can find a real driver that worked in XP

also of note win xp 64 as well as vista 64 bit will require a 64 bit driver for all hardware ....old SB card will not work

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Posted 16 October 2008 - 06:36 PM

Yes generally you want the actual drivers instead of windows ones. I was leaving work and mixed up things with my brain. Do the windows thing last if you can't get anything else to work.

If the card's old enough it might not even matter though.