TSGL: No sound

[Don Penlington]

Engineman wrote:
>installed the  recommended
>"ADI SoundMax AC97 Audio Driver for Windows 98SE/2000/ME/XP". Still  no 
>sound. >>


The Soundmax AC97 onboard sound seems to have been a very troublesome 
beast. Even more so, I suspect, when coupled with Compaq, which seem to be 
generally rather intolerant of anything non-Compaq.

I recently had the same AC97 problem on a friend's computer (not a Compaq). 
I researched it thoroughly, found lots of forums with similar problems but 
no very satisfactory answers--at least, nothing that worked on his 
computer, despite trying several drivers, uninstalling and installing till 
our faces were blue (to say nothing of the language!).

Finally we installed an old used $5 Soundblaster card and his sound is now 
better than ever. It only took a few minutes. Much quicker and easier than 
trying to fix what seemed to be an insoluble problem.  Maybe the AC97 sound 
chip just dies, as he'd done nothing unusual to disable it. His computer 
wasn't much more than a year old, too.

Sorry not to be more help.

Don Penlington


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