sound card installation

I have a pentium II 233 that just decided to stop playing any sound. I put the card in another simular PC and it worked. It is a PnP card. I took it out and put it back in the original PC and the darn thing started working again and also quit a week later. This time it would not reload in the original PC, BUT, is at this time working fine in the latter PC. That is problem one. #2 is this. I bought 2 PCI cards off the net, both having drivers and experienced this error message. "A device ID has been used that is out of range for your system." HELP!!! I do not want to put a lot of money in this old system but would like to get it running properly for my daughter again. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Let me also state that I checked the device manager in the first problem and found nothing. Usually, if a device is not working properly it will show up in the device manager.

 

sound card install

In the list of devices, look between Port and System Device. There should be an entry for Sound, video and game controllers. If it is not there, the software for your sound card is not installed.

 

sound card drivers

The drivers load automatically in the computer using the ISA PnP card in the first computer. The device manager shows that the drivers are there and have no problem even when the device does not work. If I change it to a different computer it works. When I install it back in the original computer, it will work for a while and then just stop for no apparent reason. This is very puzzleing to me. This same sound card is in the other computer and still working for the last couple days. It has not faultered in the second computer ever, only in the original PC.

 

Try borrowing a sound card from someone that you know works on a friends pc. See if it works on yours.
Have you checked in bios to see if the sound is enabled. I know it shouldn't have changed but funny things do happen.
Could also be a motherboard problem. Try updating your motherboard drivers aswell. If you have no luck try asking here:

http://www.technologyvault.co.uk

Very quick and experienced.

Hope I have been of some help. Woz

 

Plug n Play, even still using Win98SE, is light-years ahead of what it was in the past, especially with ISA cards. You may find that your rig is succumbing to the call of the past and may not respond to your best efforts.

 

Please forgive me, but I am going to have to ask you to translate that last message into terms I understand. The card in question worked for 6 or 8 years without any trouble. I am trying to understand why it will work in another computer of roughly the same time period and with the same basic components but will continue to work only for a while in the original PC. I do hope we are talking about the same problem. I realize that I did bring 2 different problems into the same arena. The second problem is on hold for now.

 

I am glad you said USUALLY. Because very often if there is a hardware ( IRQ ) conflict between the Sound card and an Internal Modem it WILL NOT show in the device manager.

A PCI internal Modem may cause a conflict even for an ISA sound card.

Check the Device manager and see it the Modem and the Sound card may be TRYING to used the same IRQ. The sound card will share but the modem will ( or may ) NOT.

Between the time the sound card worked and the time it quit had any other changes been made ?

Had any software been added that may have changed the default audio device ?

BillyBob

 

Nothing was added or changed to the best of my knowledge. I might add that this computer did this about a year ago and I took the card out and reinstalled it and had no trouble until recently. Also, please define plug and play. To me it means, stick it in and start playing. No loading drivers from an installation disk. Am I right?