I was having some problems with random program crashes for about a week so I decided to reinstall XP. The installation went fine but now my Sound Card doesn't work. I have downloaded the latest drivers and during installation it says "Hardware device not recognized" or something to that effect. The Card is in the same PCI slot that it has always been in since the day I bought it, but just for kicks I moved it to a different one.
In all the PCI slots the card gets recognized in the BIOS but when windows completely boots up to desktop, XP doesn't recognize any new hardware that needs to be installed. I have tried to do a manual installation without success also.
I doubt the card has gone bad, any other ideas I should try?
Dell P4 3.6Ghz
2gigs DDR2 Ram
250gig HD
Nvidia 6800 GFX card
Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio card
(never had a problem with it before today)
2007-07-16 20:19:12 · 7 answers · asked by Kevin J Davis 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
I don't think I made myself clear, sorry.
There are no Sound Card drivers installed on my system. I can't install the drivers because Windows doesn't recognize my Sound Card. This is a clean install of XP
2007-07-16 21:12:16 · update #1
I appreciate those of ya'll that are tring to help....but are ya'll actually reading what I'm typing....XP is not recognizing my Hardware and will not let me install the Drivers.....I can't Install the Drivers because XP won't recognize the Hardware!
2007-07-17 01:26:43 · update #2
I'm looking at the IRQ possibility now.
2007-07-17 01:27:45 · update #3
IRQ problems. Move it back!
2007-07-16 22:29:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It certainly sounds like a driver issue to me. When you look in "device Manager" do you see anything there with a ? or ! next to it? If so, delete it, remove the card from your system, Install the drivers, and then put the card back in you computer When you boot it up it should install the card automatically.. Sometimes XP can be finicky about installing the drivers before installing the hardware.
Good Luck,
Captain Computer
2007-07-16 20:40:18 · answer #2 · answered by Captain Computer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reset your bios to the default settings. Perhaps the IRQ's got allocated incorrectly and the PCI ports aren't responding. If that doesn't do it, then perhaps your motherboard is on its way out. You did say you were getting random crashes, they happen for a reason, just not apparent at the time.
2007-07-16 20:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by ms_Lila 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds to me like a driver problem.
Start your computer insafe mode>go to device manager>completely delete the sound card driver> Reboot and install the driver.
2007-07-16 21:00:52 · answer #4 · answered by shakeeb 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best thing to do would be to go into control panel/system/system devices and select from the list your sound card/video card if it not working it should show a yellow exclamation mark next to it, select in and click properties and try clicking "roll back drivers" this will roll back to the last time the device worked properly.
2016-05-19 23:32:38 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you stupid you must know one thing that after reinstalling XP you must install all the softwares .
2007-07-17 01:22:43 · answer #6 · answered by RAVEN 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yank it out, place back in, reboot....
2007-07-16 20:27:04 · answer #7 · answered by sircarpediem 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋