problem with sound...

R3v3lation

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• Sep 23, 2002

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I just took my computer apart and put it back together the other day. then I reformatted the hard drive and now everything is fine except one thing. the sound doesn't work. It said that there was no sound card and whenever something would normally make a sound instead it just beeps(the speak in the case).

these are my specs...

SOYO K7V dragon mobo
512megs of 2100 ddr
1.4ghz tbird
windowsXP
radeon8500

does anyone have an idea as to what might get it working?

 

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Yakbak

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• Sep 23, 2002

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Most likely, you are using your onboard sound, and you did not install your drivers yet.

You can download the C-Media WinXP 0639 drivers here: http://www.soyousa.com/dl/drivers/k7vx/87380639xp.zip

Windows Update Catalog also has the C-Media 0640 drivers, if you want to update manually. Both should work fine.

 

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• Sep 23, 2002

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Are you using a sound card ? or are you using on board sound ?
If you are using on board, did you make sure that you have it enabled in bios?

And which ever one you are using, you need to d/l the drivers and install them.

 

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• Sep 24, 2002

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check the bios and make sure that you have all the latest drives from the cd or website.

 

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I downloaded the drivers and tried the ones of the CD, no deal. it doesn't even register that it's there. it can't find it. could I have damaged the onboard sound? maybe I hooked it up wrong when putting my computer back together? it started doing all this before I had reformatted...

 

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• Sep 24, 2002

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Did you play around in your BIOS and disable it by accident? If it's not enabled in the BIOS, Windows or any driver set will never see the sound card until it's enabled.

Try running a Windows Update and looking at the Drivers section to see if anything is detected.

 

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• Sep 30, 2002

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it's enabled... everything seems to be fine, but it's still not working... I was wondering, if I get a PCI sound card, do you think it would work or do you think whatever is making the onboard sound not work would do the same thing to a PCI sound card...

 

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• Sep 30, 2002

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It's a good idea. Just be sure to disable the onboard sound first before using a PCI sound card, to avoid IRQ and other conflicts.

 

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• Oct 20, 2002

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How do you disable the onboard sound? (C-Media)

 

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• Oct 20, 2002

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It'll be in the BIOS under integrated Periphs or somethign of that type