My motherboard is Soltek SL-K8AN-RL, and it came with an on-board AC'97 sound card. The on-board sound card has no problem, but I want to replace it with something better.
Before I start, I will list out all the steps that I already tried.
1. Removed on-board soundcard driver and also removed all entries related with the driver from the registry.
2. Disabled the on-board soundcard through BIOS. (Saved a restore checkpoint in this part to allow me to roll back.)
3. Ensured that when the system is booting up, the pci sound card is not sharing any IRQ with any other devices.
4. I have 4 PCI slots, and I tried 3 of them already, none of them work. Didn't try the last one, because I read from the Turtle beach website that the last pci slot irq is usually sharing with some devices on the motherboard.
5. Tried the suggestion from this site http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=2567 which set the permission settings to allow ALL.
I have a Chaintech AV-512 sound card that uses the C-Media 8738 chipset. I downloaded the latest driver from Chaintech, but it didn't work. The installation just stuck, and never finished. I went to the hardware device manager, and I noticed that the Chaintech soundcard is already detected, but it failed to install the game port that came with the soundcard. The game port is listed with the exclamation mark next to it. I went to the properties of the game port, and when I click on the resources tab, the whole system just froze until I terminate the device manager. When I restart my computer, my OS is unable to bootup, it just stayed at the WinXP load-up screen (The black screen with the WinXP logo and the status bar). I am able to get into the safe mode, and restored to a previous checkpoint. That enabled me to boot up my computer again.
Anyway, I thought it was the soundcard problem, so I bought a Turtle Beach Riviera to give another shot, but it still doesn't work. The situation is exactly like the Chaintech AV-512 sound card that I'm trying to install.
Any suggestions or advices?
Thanks!!!!
er.. just realized that the Riviera is also using the C-Media CMI 8738 chipset. Anyway, I am still hoping to get my problem to be solved.
Before I start, I will list out all the steps that I already tried.
1. Removed on-board soundcard driver and also removed all entries related with the driver from the registry.
2. Disabled the on-board soundcard through BIOS. (Saved a restore checkpoint in this part to allow me to roll back.)
3. Ensured that when the system is booting up, the pci sound card is not sharing any IRQ with any other devices.
4. I have 4 PCI slots, and I tried 3 of them already, none of them work. Didn't try the last one, because I read from the Turtle beach website that the last pci slot irq is usually sharing with some devices on the motherboard.
5. Tried the suggestion from this site http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=2567 which set the permission settings to allow ALL.
I have a Chaintech AV-512 sound card that uses the C-Media 8738 chipset. I downloaded the latest driver from Chaintech, but it didn't work. The installation just stuck, and never finished. I went to the hardware device manager, and I noticed that the Chaintech soundcard is already detected, but it failed to install the game port that came with the soundcard. The game port is listed with the exclamation mark next to it. I went to the properties of the game port, and when I click on the resources tab, the whole system just froze until I terminate the device manager. When I restart my computer, my OS is unable to bootup, it just stayed at the WinXP load-up screen (The black screen with the WinXP logo and the status bar). I am able to get into the safe mode, and restored to a previous checkpoint. That enabled me to boot up my computer again.
Anyway, I thought it was the soundcard problem, so I bought a Turtle Beach Riviera to give another shot, but it still doesn't work. The situation is exactly like the Chaintech AV-512 sound card that I'm trying to install.
Any suggestions or advices?
Thanks!!!!
er.. just realized that the Riviera is also using the C-Media CMI 8738 chipset. Anyway, I am still hoping to get my problem to be solved.
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