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No sound after hard drive replacement

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by 430pam, 2012/02/25.

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    430pam

    430pam Inactive Thread Starter

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    I just replaced my hard drive and windows xp. Now I have no sound device. I have downloaded drivers from microsoft, intel, my mother board, and ATI, my sound device, witch is in my mother board. I have changed bios to optamin defaults. Still cant reconize a sound device. If I put the old hard drive back in sound works fine. I run out of ideas. Can anyone help?:confused:
     
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    dnmacleod

    dnmacleod Well-Known Member

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    Why didn't you just image your old drive onto your new one or were you doing a cleanup as part of the upgrade?

    Any yellow question marks in Device Manager?
     

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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Welcome to WindowsBBS;)

    Is this a store bought pc like a Dell? If so, get the drivers from them.
     
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    430pam

    430pam Inactive Thread Starter

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    Had a virus and lost half of windows
     
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    430pam

    430pam Inactive Thread Starter

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    No I bought it on e-bay its a home built. has worked well for 2 yrs. now but I got a virus that took out half of windows
     
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    dnmacleod

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    Has the virus been cleaned?

    If not, you should start a thread in the malware forum and get it cleaned before you go any further.

    Before you do that, read this post and follow the instructions.
     
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    retiredlearner SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Hi 430pam, When you put your new Hard drive in - did you re-insatll your OS (Windows XP) from your original CD? Neil.
     
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    MrBill

    MrBill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    He said it was a NEW hard drive. Should be clean.
     
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    retiredlearner

    retiredlearner SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    430pam, Have you fixed your problem?
    As you stated in your 1st Post, you installed Drivers from your motherboard.
    I assume from that statement that you have your M/B CD. If not, are you sure you Downloaded the correct Drivers from the M/B maker?
    I would suggest using Everest by Lavalys so that you can recognize the M/B correctly and try for the Drivers again.
    You said the Sound system was built into the M/B, so the Drivers will have to come from the correct source. Let's know what's going on, or mark this as Resolved. Neil.
     
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    dpyamak49

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    dud seems u r installing wrong driver, make sure that u r installing right driver
     
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    retiredlearner

    retiredlearner SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    dpyamak49, English is the preferred language to use on this Forum. Combining text speak can be confusing.
    Thanks for your input, but I think we need more clarification from 430pam to enable a finite statement. Neil.
     
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    joedestroyer

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    Sound card built in or pci/usb/firewire/external. Disc OEM or Full License

    Sound card built in or pci/usb/firewire/external. Disc OEM or Full License?
    What do you see on device manager? Maybe the sound driver is using the wrong IRQ and causes a conflict
     

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