windows 2000 not recognizing sound card
I upgraded to windows 2000 a little while ago and needed to reinstall all my drivers. Now my problem is my sound is not working and I assume the sound card needs to be reinstalled. How can I know what sound card is in my machine (without actually opening it up)?.
I upgraded to windows 2000 a little while ago and needed to reinstall all my drivers. Now my problem is my sound is not working and I assume the sound card needs to be reinstalled.
How can I know what sound card is in my machine (without actually opening it up)?
How can I know what sound card is in my machine (without actually opening it up)?
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at boot the computer lists installed devices. Try to press pause at that screen. It should list your audio card if it's plug and play. Put the numbers into google it might find something. I just tested it and if you cant catch it with pause try to put a unbootable floppy in your floopy drive and set the comp to boot from it. Then it will pause with an error e.g. non bootable disk error press any key...
PCI device listing ...
VENDOR ID DEVICE ID DEVICE CLASS
1106 0571 IDE CONTROLLER
10B7 9055 NETWORK ...
10DE 0111 DISPLAY
Then go here http://inf33-www.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de/infothek/computer/tutorial/eprmhtml/eprmx/12529.htm
There are more lists like this if you put ("vendor ID" list) into google.
From that you can see that
1106 is VIA Technologies
10B7 is 3com
10DE is nVidia
Those are chips manufacturers not the actual manufacturers, but you can try and get a generic driver.
BTW this won't work with old isa cards & first check if it's not an onboard audio.
If this doesn't yield any results try a program like sisoft sandra under AGP PCI card busses information you might find what.
Post back if you need more help.
PCI device listing ...
VENDOR ID DEVICE ID DEVICE CLASS
1106 0571 IDE CONTROLLER
10B7 9055 NETWORK ...
10DE 0111 DISPLAY
Then go here http://inf33-www.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de/infothek/computer/tutorial/eprmhtml/eprmx/12529.htm
There are more lists like this if you put ("vendor ID" list) into google.
From that you can see that
1106 is VIA Technologies
10B7 is 3com
10DE is nVidia
Those are chips manufacturers not the actual manufacturers, but you can try and get a generic driver.
BTW this won't work with old isa cards & first check if it's not an onboard audio.
If this doesn't yield any results try a program like sisoft sandra under AGP PCI card busses information you might find what.
Post back if you need more help.
Get AIDA32 Enterprise Edition 3.88 from
http://www.aida32.hu/download/aida32ee_388.exe
Install and run it and a report will be produced showing you the details of your hardware and software.
http://www.aida32.hu/download/aida32ee_388.exe
Install and run it and a report will be produced showing you the details of your hardware and software.
