My first thought as to why the onboard sound will not work is that the mainboard/bios/sound drivers are not installed or up to date. Is this the case?
I am unable to get sound card, Audigy EAX Advanced HD,to work. Audigy control says that I do not have card installed correctly; I have removed and re-installed and still cannot get card to work. I have had in original box for a couple of years and have finally installed in system.
I disabled onboard audio but prior to that I did not have any sound either, except for a beep with IM chat.
What can I do to re-configure or check for error? The following is my system:
Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) No details available
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.47 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP - ABIT 133R
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: nVidia-nForce
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 03/07/2002
Drives Memory Modules c,d
120.04 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
99.68 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
LITE-ON LTR-40125S [CD-ROM drive]
SONY DVD RW DRU-510A [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
MAXTOR 6L040J2 [Hard drive] (40.03 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 662221948355, rev A93.0500, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WMA8E2361627, rev 17.07W17, SMART Status: Healthy 384 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'A0' has 256 MB
Slot 'A1' has 128 MB
Slot 'A2' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes
c: (on drive 0) 26.38 GB 17.14 GB free
d: (on drive 1) 40.03 GB 39.64 GB free
e: (on drive 0) 15.63 GB 6.34 GB free
f: (on drive 0) 27.51 GB 27.45 GB free
k: (on drive 0) 10.49 GB 9.11 GB free
Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 [Display adapter]
Samsung SyncMaster [Monitor] (15.7"vis, s/n HVCT405390, April 2002)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
RAID Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
VIA USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device
NVIDIA

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