[ulrichburke]

Dear Soundqueen.

Bet you must be getting a severe case of deja vu round about now....

Like so many of the others you've helped, I am getting no sound from my system (apart from the antique fan keeping it cooled!)

My comp. has an AMD-Sempron board (so it says on the front), an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 Soundcard, 1 gig RAM. Here follows the BELARC Advisor findings for my system:-

Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.75 gigahertz AMD Athlon
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: nVidia-nForce
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 10/17/2003
Drives Memory Modules c,d
20.51 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
4.43 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

_NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A [CD-ROM drive]
SONY DVD-ROM DDU1615 [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

ST320430A [Hard drive] (20.51 GB) -- drive 0 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' has 512 MB
Slot 'A1' has 512 MB
Slot 'A2' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 20.51 GB 4.43 GB free

Network Drives
None detected
Users (mouse over user name for details) Printers
local user accounts last logon
Chris Burke 10/16/2007 08:18:55 (admin)
local system accounts
Administrator never (admin)
Guest never
HelpAssistant never
SUPPORT_388945a0 never

Marks a disabled account; Marks a locked account EPSON Stylus C46 Series on USB001

Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller RADEON 7000 SERIES [Display adapter]
HP MX70 [Monitor] (15.7"vis, s/n THTBX01649, December 2000)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller
Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (2x) M-Audio Delta Audiophile
MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device
Standard Game Port
Communications Other Devices

1394 Net Adapter
Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC
Dhcp Server: none responded
Physical Address: 00:50:BF:60:50:08
SpeedTouch USB ADSL PPP

Networking Dns Servers: 212.139.132.27
212.139.132.26
OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
SpeedTouch 330 ADSL Modem
USB Printing Support
USB Root Hub (3x)


The problem is, my Multimedia Controller, Multimedia Video Controller and SM Bus Controller all have big yellow question marks next to them. And when I right-click on any of them, they all come up as 'Manufacturer: Unknown:" Which is wonderfully helpful. Not.

How do I find the manufacturers out, so I know which drivers to download for the system? I'd love to hear something coming out of this thing!

Yours in faith

Chris.