unintalling a hardware

[kornermi]

How can I make my computer forget about a soundcard which is physically in an ISA slot? I mean, there seems to be something wrong with my sound card, so I try to uninstall and reinstall it just to see what happens. Do I have to physically remove the sound card and reattach, or can I just delete its entry from Device Manager and achieve the same result? Thanks.

 

[yathinkicare]

if you using device mangager your runing a windows 9X os??
ya you can delete it but if you hit refresh it will try to reinstall..(or when you reboot) best thing to do is to disable it I believe...

you could take it out of the case if you really wanted

 

[frover2000]

Just physically remove it, it's as simple as that.
out of curiosity though why wouldn't you just use it?😕

 

[Homerboy]

or if you dont want to physically remove it (for whatever reasn) jsut click the "disable/remove from all hardware profiles" in the device mamanger properties for the soundcard.

 

[kornermi]

Thanks for the inputs. I deleted the sound card entry from the device manager (win98se), rebooted the computer, and the computer thought it just found a new sound card and installed it again, which was what I wanted. After this, for whatever reasons I don't know, the noise from the speaker is gone. I used to have annoying noise when I set the sound tone too high, but that was gone, either. My sound card is sound blaster awe 64 (ISA). But, still, recording sound level is extremely low. I got something from the microphone voice recording, but only after a lot of amplification, which obviously hurts the sound quality. I checked every way I can, and the microphone works fine.

Does anyone have this problem, too? i.e. good quality playing but bad quality recording. Thanks.