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No sound with Windows 2K Pro

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djchemistry

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I've got Win2k pro running on a msi 815e pro (6337). For some reason when I replaced my old keyboard with a new microsoft internet keyboard, the sound died. Win2k no longer recognizes my soundcard. What's the deal with that? Any ideas?
 
If you remove the associated software with the internet keyboard, does it come back?

The keyboard will still work, just not the funky buttons.
 
Yes I'm using the onboard sound. I tried removing the driver for the enhanced keyboard but it just comes back when i reboot. W2k just installs it without asking. Even when I removed it though, I couldn't find the drivers for the sound. It's like it just disappeared. There's no "!" marks anywhere in the device manager. Any other suggestions?
 
If Win2k is reinstalling the driver without prompting at reboot, examine the "Driver Details..." button in Device Manager and manually delete the listed files from your hard drive. Makes it hard for the OS to reinstall it without the files 🙂 If any of the files are mirrored in the WINNT\System32\dllcache folder, delete those as well. Then go back to Device Manager and remove the entry for the enhanced keyboard.

When you're done, reboot and see if the problem persists.

[edit] Just occured to me that you can probably simply use Update Driver, let Windows search for drivers, and force it to use a standard keyboard driver. If you haven't already deleted the driver files, Windows should find multiple suitable drivers. Check the box that says something like "I want to install one of the other drivers" and pick the standard mode. [/edit]

Best regards,
Floyd
 
I was messing around with that last night but I guess it wasn't the keyboard after all. I even tried re-installing the drivers for everything one by one but nothing. So today I decided to look at the manual again to see if I could identify the sound chip on the motherboard, turns out that it's integrated into the ICH2 chip. What's that? If its integrated into that chip, does that mean there is no sound chip? or separate sound drivers?
 
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