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hi guys...think this may be my first post here and i apologise for slightly hijacking this thread, but i'm having a similar soundcard problem as the original poster and am pulling my hair out.
here's the story so far...
friend of mine had bt broadband installed and says now that she now has no sounds...although she cant remember if it was working prior to the broadband install !!!
pc is an Acer Aspire 8200, xp home with on board sound...device manager shows no problems.
i uninstalled the soundcard drivers, restarted the pc and reinstalled with no problems, device manager shows no problem devices. from the 'sound &audio' devices in the ctrl panel I am prompted that no audio device is installed !!!
Btw... forgot to mention that on start up...once the desktop has loaded i get an emty dos screen titled 'mixer.exe' wih a windows alert of 'c:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt the system file is not suitable for running ms-dos and windows based applications'
as per the ms knowledge base (324767) i have replaced the autoexec and config.nt files... which resloved the startup issue...but still no sound.
i have also tried 2 other pci souncards...and during each process when prompted for the path of the drivers.. browsing to the path on the relevant cd, clicking ok...the pc shuts off immediatly. when restarted the drivers appear to be installed ok in the device manager, but displays an error code 10 ( irq conflict ?) although on further investigation there are no conflicts.
any ideas anyone, would this be a motherboard issue ?? is it worth me trying updated manufactures motherboard drivers ???
thanks in advance for any advice
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