[Kaiyn1]

Hi guys! You have helped me with worm problems, so I am coming back here, for I am stumped.

I have just upgraded my computer, playing the home network shuffle game. The only thing out of the old one are the drives (1 HD, floppy, 2xcd's). The HD has Win98SE installed, and was working fine when I took it out. The old mobo and new mobo are nearly identical, the old being a Chaintech CPJL3, the new being an MSI 865PE-Neo2-P (Platinum Edition).

Switched over everything, installed the new drivers, had to fiddle with everything a bit to get it to work (no USB mouse till I got the USB 2.0 drivers installed). Weird thing, the onboard sound WORKED the first few reboots. But somewhere in the driver updates, it went quiet.

The mobo uses an onboard alc655 sound chip. I got new drivers from the websites for mobo, sound chip, and intel's drivers. No sound. The card is working, as the speakers stop buzzing during windows boot, but no sound. Device manager has card installed, but any program that access the sound card indicated that there was no functioning sound card on the system.

Oh well I says, onboard sound sucks up my cpu cycles anyway, so off I go to MicroCenter for a new sound card (after reading reviews and finding card with best cpu load) and buy an Audigy 2 zs.

I get it home, install it, disable the onboard sound, load the drivers, and wham...NOTHING! No sound. Same thing. New driver downlaods, the works, nothing. The drivers that load are WDM, and I think I want VxD's seeming that I use the rig exclusively for gaming. Creative has a program that can switch the WDM's with the VxD's, but it won't work, says I have no drivers installed. I used winzip to unpack the .cab file that had the VxD's, and manually installed the two different ones that were in there, didn't help. Although I was frustrated that the included drivers were for Audigy/emu10k...and not audigy 2. I have tried changing the installed slot, no difference. I've been fiddling with this for a week and am at whits end. Anybody out there have ANY ideas? I would really appreciate the help. The only thing I haven't tried yet is a clean install, which I am reluctant to do, as I lose alot of info that way (especially passwords...)

My rig:
MSI-865PE-Neo 2-P Platinum Edition
Intel 3.2 P4
1GB Corsair Twinx LL mem sticks (2x512M)
Nvidia 6800 GT (Xfx brand)
Audigy 2/ALC655 on board sound
Onboard Realtek gigabyte LAN
Win98SE/Directx9.0c

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you're sure you have the onboard sound completely disabled (through the bios setup, right? not just disabling it through Windows)

Well, there are steps to take... one would be to boot up in dos and see if you can get sound using a dos game, like Doom or something

if you can configure a dos game to get sound, then it's with the windows drivers. The best and easiest way is to go to the System/Device Manager and totally remove the sound drivers... you can then refresh the DM and it will find new hardware, then you can go through a fresh install of the drivers (telling windows you want to search a specific directory or drive, then clicking Have disk...)

[Tim Wellman]

you're sure you have the onboard sound completely disabled (through the bios setup, right? not just disabling it through Windows)

Well, there are steps to take... one would be to boot up in dos and see if you can get sound using a dos game, like Doom or something

if you can configure a dos game to get sound, then it's with the windows drivers. The best and easiest way is to go to the System/Device Manager and totally remove the sound drivers... you can then refresh the DM and it will find new hardware, then you can go through a fresh install of the drivers (telling windows you want to search a specific directory or drive, then clicking Have disk...)

[Dalton]

test your speakers on something working, a speaker hum doesn't always mean they work. Sounds stupid, but otherwise you look like you have it covered.