My SB audigy sound card finally quit working. I had trouble in the past with it locking up my computer occasionally. Recently, it locked up the computer to the point where bios will not even boot up. I removed the sound card, un-installed all the drivers for it, and re-installed windows, it's drivers, and enabled the motherboard AC-97 chipset, and loaded the codecs and drivers from the mother board utility CD. Everything works fine except I cannot use any audio. I get a message saying an error has occured while initializing the sound system. Hardware is in use by another application or no hardware is available. Do you think my mother board's audio chip-set is fried? (KM400-M2 XP2000 Athlon AMD motherboard/processor.) This is the third mother board I have put in this computer, going on #4. Could the creative sound card have been responsible for the previous failures? NOTE: I have replaced the power supplies each time, even though they checked out to be good. HELP?
2006-12-09 21:44:54 · 3 answers · asked by scott p 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Did you reinstall the motherboard drivers? If not, do so!
2006-12-09 21:49:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-09 21:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by zktq999 0 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋