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    Please help -- onboard sound not recognized

    I use a headset to listen to .wav files. I would like to purchase a USB headset. Would you recommend a USB sound card?
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    Please help -- onboard sound not recognized

    I tried all of your suggestions plus more, but nothing worked. This problem started when a hive file in the registry became corrupt. I had to do a Recovery but the sound issue could not be resolved. Yes, I ended up doing a new installation of the OS, which was successful. At least when...
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    Please help -- onboard sound not recognized

    Sound manager is showing on taskbar but will not work when I right click on it. After right click, it shows Sound Manager, Multimedia, Windows Media Player, Sound Recorder, Volume Control. It shows not installed.
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    Please help -- onboard sound not recognized

    I would appreciate any help you can give. My motherboard is Gigabyte 8VM800PMD-775RH Video VIA/S3G Unichrome Pro IGP WinXP Pro SP2 File System NTFS No audio devices -- will not detect -- all drivers working properly.
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    Please help -- onboard sound not recognized

    There are no yellow exclamation points under Device Manager. Everything is running properly. When I run dxdiag under Sound it says no sound card is installed. The motherboard is Gigabyte Pentium 4 with onboard video Realtec 'AC97. I think it should be called RealJunk. I will never buy...
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    Please help -- onboard sound not recognized

    Hi! Computer running smoothly until one day when I turned it on and the hive registry was corrupt. I finally had to do a recovery from the WinXP disk. That went fine except for a sound issue. The onboard audio is not recognized. I updated the driver. Do you think it could be dead? Should...
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    Not able to mount fan heatsink to motherboard

    Thanks for your reply. I was able to finally mount the fan heatsink to the motherboard, but it was not easy. I only hope that I did not damage the CPU. Apparently, I had the arrows going in the wrong direction initially. I do not like the Intel push-pin installation, so next time I will...
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    Not able to mount fan heatsink to motherboard

    Hi! I am a newbie here, so please bear with me and forgive me if I use the wrong terminology. I am courageously attempting to build my first PC. I have installed most of the components but having some trouble with the fan heatsink for the Intel Pentium D chip dual-core processor 925. The...