[beaverfeather]

Greetings to all vise and smart heads on here!

I am newbie, on dial up with blazin 47 kb speed.... so bear with me for as sec or two;
I got new acer puter and it came with Vista business preinstalled. After a week of wrestling with it and pulling out my hair.It would not want to run most of my programs, I formated the drive, by installing the old trusty XPpro again, I think its called clean install?
did not install the service pack1 or 2 as it is a b....eg version and dont want the M&$ hasle on top of it all.


Now XP starts acting funny by denying and sound device being installed!! While the sound was just fine in Vista.
When I try to play the cd (in Nero for now) it said no device installed...




Here are some specs:

Board: Acer E946GZ
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD R01-B3 11/24/2006
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c: (NTFS on drive 0) 36.53 GB 30.03 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 36.16 GB 35.95 GB free
(which is funny as I dont recall partitioning the (single)drive anyway)
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Display: None detected.
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Multimedia
I had installed ATI just to see if the sound would work, and it doesnt!
ATI TV Wonder Pro A/V Capture
ATI TV Wonder Pro A/V Crossbar
ATI TV Wonder Pro Tuner (Philips 1236 MK3)

The only listing under Multimedia before I tried ATI stuff!

//////[Unimodem Half-Duplex Audio Device////
My sound card is built in of course and worked in Vista.

Please help, I would be grateful. Long live XP, dam the Vista, well untill they fix it anyway.

monday 10:35 pm Pacific



beaverfeather