How do can I make my sound card work?

Question

I do not know the make of my sound card. I have a very old PC P3 600 Mhz with intel 810 motherboard. After I reinstalled windows Xp the soundcard is not showing in the device manager and windows media player cannot play anything. I have tried to auto detect the hardware from "Add new hardware" option but it is unable to install the driver automatically. Is there any universal sound card driver available?

Answer 1

You can most likely track down the drivers but you do need to know the specifics of the card you have. You could pop open the case and take a look to see if there's a logo somewhere on card. (could be right on the chip) Might even find more info on the card. The good news is you really can't screw too much up by installing the wrong drivers so if you at least get as far as finding the manufacturer you could go wild trying out as many drivers as you can find.

PS. Be weary of some of the driver search websites....some contain spyware...some don't. Just be sure to up the security settings if you're using internet explorer

Answer 2

Installing an old sound card may be quite difficult as you have to manually install it from the sound card driver. It would be more rational to download the updated driver from the Intel Site.

Once you've finished the download, open the executable file and manually install the sound driver. It will then install the driver albeit saying that your sound card is isn't "compatible" per se with Windows XP.

I'll give you the dl site for it. just click on it.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=N&DwnldId=6816&lang=eng

btw, your sound card is an AC97

Answer 3

Reinstall the card.

Check MS website for problems similiar to yours or GOOGLE or YAHOO the problem.

Many help sites will show up.

Answer 4

you have to down load the drivers from the net. for something that old, i doubt you will find. just buy a new computer. they rnt that expensive.