my builtin audio does not work after i reformat my hard drive

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Hi Guys,

I reformated my hard drive and I installed all the drivers for the main
board plus any other periphals on the main board. I accidently installed the
wrong drivers for my builtin sound device from www.drivers.com. I uninstalled
it and reinstalled with correct one. I have C-media AC97 Media on
Viatechnology motherboard. The drivers are install properly but the sound
does not work. So i went to control panel and clicked on the sound applet and
it says there is no sound device. It does not make sense to me. I went to
device manger and there is no unknown device on there. All the devices are
working properly especially in the sound devices. Tell me what to do.
 
Sound drivers will be on the same CD as other motherboard functions..
Windows update carries drivers for your sound card, and you can also visit
the motherboard manufacturer website and get them..

Good luck
 
Thanks for the tip. I did find the orginal cd but when i uninstalled the bad
drives and reinstalled the drives that came with the motherboard and ist
still did not work. Even in device manager it says that the device is
working properly. When i click on the "sound and audio devices properties"
from control panel then it say no audio devices. What should i do.

I went to unistall the c-media devices wda audio drivers for c-media ac97
from "add and remove programs" I saw that I also have drivers from viatech
audio drivers. Basically i have two drivers. installed. I tried to uninstall
both but viatech one gave me error and it did not uninstalled. I think that
might be the problem. Viatech is first drivers i installed and it did not
work. So... what should i do.


Ankit Shah
 
Ankit

Go to Device Manager in Control Panel and physically remove all of the
entries under Sounds and Audio, and then let the computer detect and install
the drivers..

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Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/user
 
Hi Mike,

I tried that hundreds of time before you wrote this post. Thanks for the
effort. You have been great help. If you have any other ideas, please let me
know. I want to resolve this stupid problem. . Some reason Windows recognizes
that there is a sound device there but after you install the drivers, it has
not worked. In device manager it shows that the device is working properly. I
even check in bios to see if it is turned on and it is. So i am not sure what
to do. Do you think i have to reset my CMOS settings by switching the jumpers
from pin 1 and 2 to 2 and 3 and then back to 1 and 2. Should I do the second
repair that you can do in dos mode or non gui interface mode.

Thanks for your help Mike, it is truly appreciative. I am just fustrated on
how to resolve this issue without reformating and reinstalling windows again.
 
Hi,

Have you tried update drivers?
Go to device manager/sound, video and game controllers/ check for any
viatech audio??? or similar name, right click on it and select update
drivers, select have disk, not to search, select the correct path for the
drivers to be installed (from your mobo CD or downloaded C-Media drivers that
had been saved to a specific folder)

Hope it helps. Pls post back to NG for the outcome.

Peter
 
Hi Peter,

I tried that a million times and it did not work. I just don't know what is
up. Do you have any other solutions. There are two physical drivers install
on my computer for my builtin sound card. I tried to uninstall the viatech
one but it won't let me. It gave me an error saying can't uninstalled due to
bad uninstall log. Is there any other way to complete kill the drivers and
then completely reinstall the sound driver.

Ankit Shah
 
Hi,

If the viatech can't be uninstall due to bad install log, you may try to
install the viatech drivers again , reboot the PC then uninstall the viatech
drivers.

If still no go, the only way you can do is that you need to manually remove
all viatech files and registries from your PC. It is quite time consuming and
you may miss some files or delete some of the registries keys incorrectly.
May be you can go to viaarena.com to have a search to solve this problem.

The last resort is to format and clean install XP again.
Sorry, I can't help you.

Peter
 
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