got a mobo on trade and swapped it in.didnt get the booklet or factory cd.it doesnt think there's a sound device so im guessing i shoudl need drivers.cant find them online.anybody know where i could find them? its an abit av8. thanks in advance for any help!
PLEASE HELP!!! no sound from new computer
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i downloaded it.i guess i had already downloaded it too.it gave an basic install screen,and said installing, but still no sound 
what am i doing wrong???
what am i doing wrong???did you check the Device Manager?
Hold windows key + Pause Break > Hardware > Device Manager
are the drivers properly installed? any warning popping up??
Hold windows key + Pause Break > Hardware > Device Manager
are the drivers properly installed? any warning popping up??
its says multimedia audio controller not installed.there are exclamation points all around it.that help any? i was thinking the drivers just arent installed.as far as the wire,yes,its in the right hole (green). if i try to play sound through windows media player,it errors out because it sees there's nothing to play audio.
yes, i had this problem before. when i tried to play any audio file, an error box pops up. sounds like a driver issue to me
go back to Device Manager and try to get rid of the exclamation points by re-installing all the drivers.
rather than running the "setup.exe", you can manually install the drivers by double clicking the exclamtion pt and go to the Driver Tab.
click on update driver and browse through until you get to the driver files that you extracted (.inf file).
Hope that helps.
go back to Device Manager and try to get rid of the exclamation points by re-installing all the drivers.
rather than running the "setup.exe", you can manually install the drivers by double clicking the exclamtion pt and go to the Driver Tab.
click on update driver and browse through until you get to the driver files that you extracted (.inf file).
Hope that helps.
oh crap.i did it now.i uninstalled the whole driver.now its gone from the list.im retarded.anyway,before I did that I tried reinstalling,but it couldnt ever find the driver,nor would it at any point give me an option to tell it to install from the file I downloaded off of Abits website.having no sound sucks thanks again for helping me!
thanks again for helping me!it recognizes the audio device again.still wont let me install the drivers i downloaded.no giving me an option to.just wants to search for it on its own. any ideas??
WAIT. Let me get this straight. Did you swap the mobo but keep the existing operating system installation? If so, you MUST perform a Repair install of Windows XP. You can't just swap mobos and install the new drivers. Won't work (not unless it's the same make/model mobo or a mobo that uses the exact same chipset).
Repair install instructions here: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
Repair install instructions here: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
Exactly what I was thinking, but I'd go for a clean reformat if you can backup your data. If that's a problem, add a partition to your drive and place your data there so you can format windows and reinstall.
I actually put a mobo/cpu combo in with the new hdd.It was all part of a trade I did on here.I had the seller put a fresh XP install on the hdd and it was installed to go with this combo.so i just plugged it together in the tower and booted it up.im still a noob,just thought it was best that way.i just bought a new XP pro disc.I suppose I can use it if I really need to.Are you sure I do? Thanks again!
download driver
run file and extract to a directory of your choice
(you should be able to run setup and have it installed. if it doesn't, try the next steps.)
go back into the device manager and go back to the multimedia driver
right click -> properties
goto driver tab
go to UPDATE DRIVER
select NO, not this time, click next
select advanced option, the 2nd one, click next
put a check next to Include this location in the search, then browse to directory where you extracted files. The OK button will not be available unless the correct driver is found.
then go through the rest of the prompts and you should be fine. Might have to restart
good luck. If this doesn't work, get a friend to help you cause I'm not sure what you did with all this swapping and stuff. Usually, if you swap mobos, hdds, etc you'd have to do a fresh install of XP. Regardless, you'll have to install the audio drivers again if you reinstall.
run file and extract to a directory of your choice
(you should be able to run setup and have it installed. if it doesn't, try the next steps.)
go back into the device manager and go back to the multimedia driver
right click -> properties
goto driver tab
go to UPDATE DRIVER
select NO, not this time, click next
select advanced option, the 2nd one, click next
put a check next to Include this location in the search, then browse to directory where you extracted files. The OK button will not be available unless the correct driver is found.
then go through the rest of the prompts and you should be fine. Might have to restart
good luck. If this doesn't work, get a friend to help you cause I'm not sure what you did with all this swapping and stuff. Usually, if you swap mobos, hdds, etc you'd have to do a fresh install of XP. Regardless, you'll have to install the audio drivers again if you reinstall.
That's not correct.
Sometimes it really won't work - if the HAL between the two motherboards is different. In that case, you should do a repair install, but that's pretty rare these days.
Sometimes it won't work and you'll get a STOP 7B error at bootup - that just means your hard disk controller changed, so put the drive back in the old motherboard, change the IDE device to Standard PCI IDE device in Device Manager, install the new motherboard's HDD controller if required (if not supported in XP natively), then shut down, and reboot with th new machine, and away you go.
A reinstall isn't required. That's what PnP is for. Windows won't boot for two reasons, typically, with new hardware - a different HAL (difficult to fix - repair is the best option) or hard drive controller (a breeze to fix).
That's not correct.
Sometimes it really won't work - if the HAL between the two motherboards is different. In that case, you should do a repair install, but that's pretty rare these days.
Sometimes it won't work and you'll get a STOP 7B error at bootup - that just means your hard disk controller changed, so put the drive back in the old motherboard, change the IDE device to Standard PCI IDE device in Device Manager, install the new motherboard's HDD controller if required (if not supported in XP natively), then shut down, and reboot with th new machine, and away you go.
A reinstall isn't required. That's what PnP is for. Windows won't boot for two reasons, typically, with new hardware - a different HAL (difficult to fix - repair is the best option) or hard drive controller (a breeze to fix).
got in two bad car wrecks been offline for quite awhile.just got to read your replies.thanks alot for the help.i'll try it all out.thanks!
it's not letting me go past the "no,not at this time" install option to move on.I have to know exactly what kind of audio driver im installing i guess.there is a question mark and exclamation mark by the mulitimedia audio controller in device manager.but it lists everything about it as unknown so i cant pick out what device im installing.any ideas? it's still a Abit AV8mobo.The swap again was complete.it was pulled out of a tower,xp was reloaded to boot up when plugged to gether with this mobo and it did.im lost........
Did you already go to ABit's site and download the sound driver and run the sound driver's setup.exe installer? If so, what happened?
It's hard to read and understand what you've done and what you're trying to do - and if you've done the steps suggested by pkypkypky. Let us know.
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