At Wits' End

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Andrew Manninger

To All Cognoscenti, Greeting!

I've already posted here the story of my tribulations caused by heat damage
to my HDDs. The damaged drives have at last been replaced, including the
GigaByte motherboard that had a bad IDE controller. Now I'm struggling with
the task of rebuilding my operating system (Windows XP Prof.) and all
application programs, and therein lies the problem. The new motherboard is a
K7S741MG that came with a WinFast Utility CD, Version 1.0. According to the
instructions that came with the motherboard, this CD contains the drivers
needed for this mother board. Trouble is, when I install these drivers I
lose the sound (Creative SoundBlaster). If I don't install WinFast, the
sound is soon last anyway, and I have trouble installing other components of
the system.

Any help to overcome these problems would be much appreciated.

Andy
 
Andrew Manninger said:
To All Cognoscenti, Greeting!

I've already posted here the story of my tribulations caused by heat damage
to my HDDs. The damaged drives have at last been replaced, including the
GigaByte motherboard that had a bad IDE controller. Now I'm struggling with
the task of rebuilding my operating system (Windows XP Prof.) and all
application programs, and therein lies the problem. The new motherboard is a
K7S741MG that came with a WinFast Utility CD, Version 1.0. According to the
instructions that came with the motherboard, this CD contains the drivers
needed for this mother board. Trouble is, when I install these drivers I
lose the sound (Creative SoundBlaster). If I don't install WinFast, the
sound is soon last anyway, and I have trouble installing other components of
the system.
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By "rebuilding my operating system", do you mean formatting and installing
fresh?
 
Andrew Manninger, 9/2/2005, 7:37:42 AM,
To All Cognoscenti, Greeting!

I've already posted here the story of my tribulations caused by heat
damage to my HDDs. The damaged drives have at last been replaced,
including the GigaByte motherboard that had a bad IDE controller. Now
I'm struggling with the task of rebuilding my operating system
(Windows XP Prof.) and all application programs, and therein lies the
problem. The new motherboard is a K7S741MG that came with a WinFast
Utility CD, Version 1.0. According to the instructions that came with
the motherboard, this CD contains the drivers needed for this mother
board. Trouble is, when I install these drivers I lose the sound
(Creative SoundBlaster). If I don't install WinFast, the sound is
soon last anyway, and I have trouble installing other components of
the system.

Any help to overcome these problems would be much appreciated.

Andy
Click to expand...

In my experience loading sound card drivers has always been
problematic. I have had better results when saving sound driver
installation as the last hardware installation.
 
To All Cognoscenti, Greeting!

I've already posted here the story of my tribulations caused by heat damage
to my HDDs. The damaged drives have at last been replaced, including the
GigaByte motherboard that had a bad IDE controller. Now I'm struggling with
the task of rebuilding my operating system (Windows XP Prof.) and all
application programs, and therein lies the problem. The new motherboard is a
K7S741MG that came with a WinFast Utility CD, Version 1.0. According to the
instructions that came with the motherboard, this CD contains the drivers
needed for this mother board. Trouble is, when I install these drivers I
lose the sound (Creative SoundBlaster). If I don't install WinFast, the
sound is soon last anyway, and I have trouble installing other components of
the system.

Any help to overcome these problems would be much appreciated.

Andy
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Please link to the manufacturers product page and/or a good
picture of your board. I'm suspecting it might not have
Creative Soundblaster sound at all, only Sis (southbridge
based) integrated audio. OR, did you mean that you have a
separate sound card installed in the system? If so, disable
the onboard sound in the bios.

IMO, you should pretend you don't have that CD at all for
the purposes of drivers. Download the latest drivers from
SIS. See if Leadtek has a newer hardware monitor program if
you want one, else use that from the motherboard CD.

Such cheap boards are often rushed to market, it may have a
bios with bad bugs, and thus I suggest you update the bios
too if possible, or at the very least, download and archive
any available bios while they're available as someday you
might need it and it might have dissappeared from their
website at that point in time.
 
badgolferman said:
Andrew Manninger, 9/2/2005, 7:37:42 AM,


In my experience loading sound card drivers has always been
problematic. I have had better results when saving sound driver
installation as the last hardware installation.
Click to expand...

I've tried that. Uninstalled then reinstalled the sound card, and I've still
got no sound.

Andy
 
I am going to throw this out. I have the same sound drivers in a Windows
2000 system I have and I experienced the same issue. It turns out there was
a fix for it that I read at Microsoft. Please do not ask me to find that
article again but I can tell you the name of the executable
SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01 I got them form their site. For some reason I have
another in that folder this one called SBPCI128Setupus_w2k.exe. They are
around 4.7MB. The drivers are interesting because they put files in
Downloaded Program Files why they do that don't know but I leave it alone
sound works now everytime and I'm one of those where once fixed I leave it
alone.
 
kony said:
Please link to the manufacturers product page and/or a good
picture of your board. I'm suspecting it might not have
Creative Soundblaster sound at all, only Sis (southbridge
based) integrated audio. OR, did you mean that you have a
separate sound card installed in the system? If so, disable
the onboard sound in the bios.
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Yes, I've got a Realtek AC97 Audio sound card. I've looked in the Phoenix -
Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility, and I can't find anything that seems to be
connected to sound or audio. So I don't know how to disable the onboard
sound. What should I look for?
 
George,

Thanks for you suggestion, but I'll try to disable the onboard sound in the
BIOS (see preceding message). If it doesn't pan out, I'll try your
suggestion.

Andy
 
Yes, I've got a Realtek AC97 Audio sound card. I've looked in the Phoenix -
Award BIOS CMOS Setup Utility, and I can't find anything that seems to be
connected to sound or audio. So I don't know how to disable the onboard
sound. What should I look for?
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I have never seen that board's bios but it should be obvious
enough if present.

If you dont' want to use the onboard, integrated sound,
there is no need nor reason to install the driver for it.
Disable it in Device Manager if all else fails.
 
Kony,


kony said:
I have never seen that board's bios but it should be obvious
enough if present.

If you dont' want to use the onboard, integrated sound,
there is no need nor reason to install the driver for it.
Disable it in Device Manager if all else fails.
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How do I disable the integrated sound in Device Manager? Alternatively, how
can I uninstall it?

Andy
 
Kony,




How do I disable the integrated sound in Device Manager? Alternatively, how
can I uninstall it?

Andy
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Didable it by chosing to do so in the Device's properties
like you would anything else in Device Manager.

You can't uninstall something you didn't first install, so
if you have the driver installed remove it in add/remove
programs... if not, there is nothing left to uninstall.
Recheck the bios if there is any chance you might've
overlooked any settings, and examine the board just in case
there is a jumper setting for it (though I have no idea on
that board, if or where a jumper might be).
 
kony said:
Didable it by chosing to do so in the Device's properties
like you would anything else in Device Manager.

You can't uninstall something you didn't first install, so
if you have the driver installed remove it in add/remove
programs... if not, there is nothing left to uninstall.
Recheck the bios if there is any chance you might've
overlooked any settings, and examine the board just in case
there is a jumper setting for it (though I have no idea on
that board, if or where a jumper might be).
Click to expand...

As it's a Gigabyte board there's a chance that there's a disable option in a
hidden menu in BIOS. To find out, go to the first BIOS screen and hit <Ctrl>
<F1> together. Often with Gigabyte boards this brings up a few more options.
Took me ages to find that out and solved frustrations with two Gigabyte
boards once I did.
 
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