esthera 0 Posted December 29, 2003 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)? Share this post Link to post
jimbo 0 Posted December 29, 2003 To the best of my knowledge the only way is to open it up and look at it... sorry.. Unless you have some documentation that came with it. Share this post Link to post
Tomay 0 Posted December 30, 2003 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. Share this post Link to post
Mahmud603 0 Posted January 17, 2004 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. Share this post Link to post
