Re: Swapping mobo in ME almost good but not quite........ by Gary
Gary
Fri Feb 20 19:20:12 CST 2004
You could always blame aol anyway, they've caused enough trouble...8^).
Probably too late for backup suggestions, I always like to do favorites and
address book, but that's probably covered with your aol stuff backup.
Sounds like you probably have figured out the easiest way, I've done the
same thing with an extra HDD to see if it's hardware or not. Saves a lot of
wasted time on those tough ones. I once ghosted a drive to a new one and
the sound (Soundblaster) didn't work. Put in the old drive, it worked.
Ghosted it again, didn't work. Put back the old drive and copied the whole
drive from windows explorer to the new one, worked fine. I dunno why.
The AC97 sound generally seems to work fine, but I've noticed it never quite
just installs like you'd expect, though mine have always worked eventually.
Gary
"nobody" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Gary,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I think you're also thinking like I am.
> I've doubled & triple checked everything (even made sure the AC97
> sound was "enabled" in the bios) but no dice. When I look at "Sounds"
> under ControlPanel, the box & slider at the bottom are there & checked
> BUT they're greyed out. When I choose a sound to preview, it tells me
> that the file cannot be played and that the sound card may be in use.
> I gave up last nite & pulled an old small HD I had laying around & did
> a fresh install on it (yes, I know 45 minutes of my life I'll never
> get back....LOL!) and voila!! It works fine. Soooooooo, I think my
> only solution to this problem is to go ahead & format & reinstall. At
> least I know that'll work for sure.
>
> I've backed up MyDocuments & AOL stuff (No, I don't use AOL, this is
> actually on a buddy's computer I built for him). Any other stuff to
> consider backing up before I hit the "Y" key? (c=
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:43:10 -0800, "Gary R."
> <roberthouse@geocities.com> wrote:
>
> >The AC97 sound will not work with the WinME installed drivers (at least
> >never has for me) so you're on the right track. I'd go to the
motherboard
> >mfr's website and download the sound drivers, they may be newer than what
> >you have. If you unzip/extract them to a folder on your hard drive, and
> >then go to device manager and select your sound card...properties, on the
> >drivers tab click 'update driver' and point it to those files, that may
be
> >all it takes.
> >
> >Do you have the option of showing the volume control in the system tray
> >checked? Is it grayed out? If the control is there and there's no
sound,
> >right click it and choose open, and see if it's muted. Plug in the right
> >receptacle? Speaker power on and volume up? (asked from experience 8^)
> >
> >I'm not sure if the drivers it's installing are wrong or not, but one
thing
> >I've noticed about ME is that if it gets the wrong ones installed, it
> >declares them to be the 'right' ones and if you try to put in the right
> >ones, it will tell you they are not the correct drivers, so you have to
> >insist....just be sure they are the right ones.
> >
> >Gary