PLEASE HELP locating driver

[Gatecrasher3]

ok, I formatted my GF pc and i am unable to get her sound to work again. she has a built in sound card to her MSI MS-6769 MB. i have tried many msi drivers from their site but i must be installing the wrong one. i installed XP and the VGA drivers with 0 problems but the sound drivers is proving to be a real pain.
can someone tell me what one to use?
it would be very helpful!!
thanks

 

[Markbnj]

I suggest you find out what audio chipset is on the board, i.e. ac97, crystal, whatever, and then go to the hardware oem's site and look for drivers.

 

[Gatecrasher3]

its a ac97, i tried the newest driver for the ac97 from the msi site. the pc recognized that it had sound but only fuzz would be played back. all other drivers that i tried, nothing would happen, there would not even be a speaker in the system tray

 

[Billb2]

http://www.softwarepatch.com/utilities/ac97.html

 

[Gatecrasher3]

i belive i have tried that one with no luck

 

[Jotho]

Well, assuming that IS the motherboard, I'm sure these would be the ones you need. However, I'm assuming these are the ones you tried. Have you tried re-installing DirectX or running dxdiag to see if there's any issues in there?

 

[Markbnj]

The onboard sound can be disabled in the BIOS. Also, if there are no drivers installed, and there is a functioning ac97 on the mobo, XP should be giving you the "Found new hardware" dialog on boot. Is that happening?