Netmaniac100

Hi Guys... I wonder if you can help me. This is what happened to me: I was trying to configure an old TV Tuner Card but couldn´t find any good driver for it (VHXtreme) and one of those drivers locked my windows XP and it didnt booted any more... so I had to reinstall (I didnt want to loose my previos windows so I chose "repair installation" in the WinXp setup). The problem is that after that, everithing worked fine but my sound card. I have a PCCHIPS 955G motherboard with a AC97 embedded card that didnt work any more. So, I tryed installing a SB Live 5.1 that I had but it didnt work neither. The weir thing is that both cards appear with no problems in the device manager, as if them both where working fine but in the Multimedia icon of control panel I cant see any of them, just like if there where no soun card installed!! This problem has been breaking my head for a few days... Can anybody help me? Ive already tryed deinstalling and reisntalling their drivers, up[censored] to the latest versions and nothing. Installations works fine, gives no problems but any card seems to work. HELP PLEASE!!! Gustavo.O. ;(

Hi Relic... I followed the procedure that you you described, but nothing. Finally Ive lost my last hope... I think I will have to make a clean install of windows. But before doing that, do you have any last idea? Might this be a generic problem with WinXP and some cards? This same problem happened to me with a client´s machine some time ago. Got any clue? Its weird because no card that I install gets to work (Ive tryed also an SB live 5.1 and an old Zoltrix PCI but naaa....!) Thanks a lot Gustavo.O. ;(

Yeah... Ive tried that too... Sound card is always there. XP always recognizes and installs it but no sound! Any other idea??? Gustavo.O.

Hi there. Maybe you should look at the box of your joystick (If you still have it...) cuz the latest models of the sidewinder came with a bundled USB adaptor (15female -> USB). If not, you can check in RadioShack. Greetings. Gustavo.O.