wheres the sound ?

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I have an older MSI-6119 MB with Award bios ver 2.9(latest), I cannot get
the sound to work. The older sound card used the ess 1869 drivers and
didn't work, so I picked up a new chaintech 5.1 using c-media chip off
NEwegg. Same problem!!! I can play a cd and it will play through the
speakers (cable attached from cd), but no windows-based sound come through.
I see no resource conflicts, I've reloaded WIN98 3 times with cards in,
cards-out, and shuffled cards around. system has ati video card in AGP
slot,intel ethernet pci card,intel pci modem card and this chaintech pci
sound card.

Any Ideas?
 
I have an older MSI-6119 MB with Award bios ver 2.9(latest), I cannot get
the sound to work. The older sound card used the ess 1869 drivers and
didn't work, so I picked up a new chaintech 5.1 using c-media chip off
NEwegg. Same problem!!! I can play a cd and it will play through the
speakers (cable attached from cd), but no windows-based sound come through.
I see no resource conflicts, I've reloaded WIN98 3 times with cards in,
cards-out, and shuffled cards around. system has ati video card in AGP
slot,intel ethernet pci card,intel pci modem card and this chaintech pci
sound card.

Any Ideas?
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You do have the chipset drivers installed (for the motherboard) if
needed?

Have you tried another PCI slot?

I would check Control Panel to see if the sound card shows up in
"multimedia" category.

Next I would double-check the mixer.
Then I would see what chipset the sound card is using and goto that
(sound chip) manufacturer's website and look for the most recent
driver.

If these thing fail then I'd look for Microsoft's WDM Audio update,
which THEY won't let you download without a call-in or your first-born
or something like that, but it can be found with a Google search for
"242937usa8.exe" After that update if it's still not working your
might remove then reinstall the driver.


Dave
 
woodrow said:
I have an older MSI-6119 MB with Award bios ver 2.9(latest), I cannot get
the sound to work. The older sound card used the ess 1869 drivers and
didn't work, so I picked up a new chaintech 5.1 using c-media chip off
NEwegg. Same problem!!! I can play a cd and it will play through the
speakers (cable attached from cd), but no windows-based sound come through.
I see no resource conflicts, I've reloaded WIN98 3 times with cards in,
cards-out, and shuffled cards around. system has ati video card in AGP
slot,intel ethernet pci card,intel pci modem card and this chaintech pci
sound card.

Any Ideas?
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I have an ESS-1868 that absolutely fails whenever Win95/98/ME attempt to
assign it's IRQ, XP did it though. It also shows no conflicts, but it has
to be set in those earlier OS's through the device manager to IRQ5 and the
NIC (which always seemed to get IRQ5) set to whichever the sound card was
dynamically assigned.

I never tried figuring out exactly why it worked that way, I've had the card
over five years though so I just assumed it was old tech from the
plug-and-pray days.
 
Thanks for all the idea's. I removed the modem and sound devices from
device manager while booted in safe mode, pulled the modem out, then
reinstalled sound card. It works.!! I then disabled the serial port using
irq4, assigned that to modem in bios, resinstalled modem and it all still
works.!!

Thank god thats over.
 
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