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Mash-Tin_UK
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Eloo, basically my pc packed up recently, but iv managed to get it running again, but had to also reinstall which i didnt want to do but was prob for the best. My mobo isnt recognising my soundcard, its a creative one, not sure of any other details and cant find the soundcard driver disk, as far as im aware of i can download sound drivers for my mobo which should make it work? But i cant at all remember what my mobo is. Any ideas lol?
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Harv
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Hey there Mash.
Is it a sound card you have that doesn't work, or the built-in sound chip on your mother-board that doesn't work (or both?).
You'll know if it is a seperate card, as the ports on the back come out of a card that sits in one of the slots of the motherboard. If the ports come out directly from the motherboard - then it is the motherboard that makes the sound.
If you have 2 sets of sound ports in the back of your computer, then you have the option of getting either or both working for you.
Both the sound card and the motherboard should have either/both the model number or serial number stamped on them somewhere (the motherboard model numbers i find most of the time sit near where the processor is slotted in).
Throwing either of these in to Google should give you an idea as to what the manufacturer is and should let you download drivers.
The exception to this rule is if the motherboard comes part of a pre-built PC (like Dell, IBM or HP) since these mother-boards are usually built by a 3rd party company on behalf of the PC manufacturer meaning that drivers are not available from the 3rd party. In this case, the drivers for the mother-board can be found by using the model number of the PC itself (usually found somewhere on the outside of the chasis of the PC it-self).
I hope this helps, and if I have got completely the wrong end of the stick, or I can help more - do let me know.
Cheers,
-Harv
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Mash-Tin_UK
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| Posted: 14 March 2010 at 6:34pm | IP Logged
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Hey mate will have a look, all it was is that i took the gfx out unplugged afew things, plugged them back in and then reinstalled and hasnt worked since, will take my soundcard out and try that, then try it with my old soundcard and then that will tell me whats working or, so it shud anyway! Will get back to you, cheers
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Mash-Tin_UK
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Right basically iv found my disk, but its not detecting my soundcard. Its in the motherboard in the PCI slot? is there spose to be a pin connection to it? as i see like 4 pins but nothing connected?
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As long as it is properly seated in the PCI slot - there needn't be anything in the pins on the card. Different pins on a sound card do various things - one thing for example is to connect the sound card directly to a CD player in your system so that the sound can be sent straight to the speakers, rather than be processed by the computer first, before being sent to the sound card for processing and THEN to the speakers (i doubt you will need to do this though, as it will work anyway).
Next thing for you to do is find out actually WHAT it is that your PC does see.
To do this you will need to go to device manager:
1) Right-click on my computer and go to properties (then if it is Vista - after this step, click on 'Advanced system settings')
2) Click on the hardware tab
3) Click on 'Device manager'
Take a look down the list and see if there are any 'Unknown' devices.
If there are, turn off your computer, remove the sound card, turn it back on, then repeat the process to make sure that it IS the sound card that is the unknown device.
This proves that the sound card can be seen, but there are no drivers.
If there is already a sound card listed in device manager, then there will be another reason why you are not getting sound - but we will cross that bridge if/when we get to it.
Get back to me with the results, and we'll take it from there.
Cheers,
-Harv
Edited by Harv on 14 March 2010 at 6:56pm
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| Posted: 14 March 2010 at 7:17pm | IP Logged
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Cheers harv works now, i did check device manager last time and it wernt there, shudda looked in the unknown bit rele doh! ahha, All working now, windows downloaded the right drive.
Strange that my soundcard disk didnt do that, kept coming up with an error, all working now tho!
Thanks again :)
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No probs, glad i could be of assistance.
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