on board sound on my pc - help

[fryske]

how do i find out if the on board sound is disabled??

I've hit del when booting up but can't find any mention anywhere????

[aldi]

It's usually in the 'integrated hardware' section, and might be refferred to as an AC97 device. Isn't it showing up in device manager?

[aldi]

Oops, just saw other thread, I'd say it's unlikley to have disabled it's self during a reinstall of XP. Prob. just drivers. Got any question marks in device manager?

75% of onboard sound chips are either Intel, which might be kicked into life by the 'Intel Chipset Installation Utility' from support.intel.com, or Realtek AC97, which you can get from Here