reloaded XP and and dont have sound

[V8Dom]

ive reloaded my computer with Xp and dont have sound. the mother board has built in sound card and although board is running ok i cant find the drivers for the sound part of it... Anyone got any ideas??thanks

[Who me ?]

You need motherboard drivers for your sound . Look on system info - ,then download drivers .Hint - www."motherboard maker.com .( somethng like "Asrock/Asus/gigabyte)

[V8Dom]

its an Acer RS780hvf..

tried acer website but only currect drivers, and they dont update drivers for older boards??

dom

[The Highway Man]

Go to Driver Max and download from the link. It's free, the program will scan your system and list all the up to date drivers for everything on your computer. You are then allowed to download 2 drivers a day on the free version.

http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/

[109 Bob]

I had that happen once, I don't have xp any more so doing this from memory. Go into local disc c properties & in there somewhere will be something like add/remove windows programmes or similar, go into there but it's not under sound but under something that you wouldn't think like games maybe. It will ask you to insert your xp disc.

Sorry for being a bit vague but as I said, I'm trying to remember. Also obviously this will only work if you had the same problem as I did but it's worth a try. I only found this out by accident when I was trying to load my games back on about three months after a clean re-install of xp, I had no sound at all for that time.

[V8Dom]

The Highway Man said:

Go to Driver Max and download from the link. It's free, the program will scan your system and list all the up to date drivers for everything on your computer. You are then allowed to download 2 drivers a day on the free version.

http://www.innovative-sol.com/drivermax/

thanks, never tried this program b4... will try and see what hapens

cheers...Dom

[ADEuk]

Have you checked on board audio enabled in BIOS?

[GregE240]

ADE, I'm sure if it was working before it should be working now?

Nice idea though.

[Vespula]

This driver should work:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Realtek_High_Definition_...

[V8Dom]

very strange... still not working and when i go into youtube it plays at double speed...

history is i formatted hard drive , everything worked before , just slow..

xp disk i have i loaded no problems, not reboot disc for machine, so drivers im looking for.

the motherboard via cpu-z is a aser rs780rvf... aser website dont list one ... possibly too old...

[109 Bob]

Do you or can you get the sound icon to appear in the bottom right taskbar?

[V8Dom]

109 Bob said:

Do you or can you get the sound icon to appear in the bottom right taskbar?

yep it there and on max volume and not on mute!!

thanks dom

[109 Bob]

V8Dom said:

109 Bob said:

Do you or can you get the sound icon to appear in the bottom right taskbar?

yep it there and on max volume and not on mute!!

thanks dom

Ok, just checking I only asked because I didn't when I had my problem reloading xp & although people probably think that I'm mad for posting my last reply that strange fix did replace the icon & sound.

Now I know you have an unrelated problem I can't really add anything else apart from, have you considered getting a cheap sound card? Just an option if you can't get the drivers for your motherboard sound.

[ADEuk]

Could it be a codec problem?

[The_Jackal]

Yeah what are you trying to play?
Do you get the normal pings when you change the volume?
I am assuming you have run Windows Update until it finds no more updates? Also make sure you havent missed any optional updates.

[V8Dom]

hi
no ,more updates ive done that
anything on youtube is like watching on fast forward...
downloaded a drivers checker and it says im missing 6 drivers including a display and sound.....tried looking manually for them to no avail.
i have complete list of all internal components ive pasted on a notepad ..

dom

[gamefreaks]

Does the system have HD Audio?

If so, try installing this: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericSoftware...

Doesn't matter if your computer is not a HP machine. This is a Microsoft driver, that rather stupidly, you can't download from Microsoft's site!

[ADEuk]

some older acer stuff here: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/ftp/ftp.html
might help

[V8Dom]

gamefreaks said:

Does the system have HD Audio?

If so, try installing this: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericSoftware...

Doesn't matter if your computer is not a HP machine. This is a Microsoft driver, that rather stupidly, you can't download from Microsoft's site!

tried thanks..recognised i did not have hp...downloaded anyway and rebooted still nothig?

[V8Dom]

ADEuk said:

some older acer stuff here: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/ftp/ftp.html
might help

vista only not xp...

thanks for try