[foz79]

Hi, I recently bought a motherboard off a friend of mine who has built me a system, I have installed XP Pro SP2 on it and everything works fine...except the on-board soundcard. I have installed plenty of drivers which XP seems to think work fine but there is no sound at all being output to the speakers.

I have read a ton of posts in this forum regarding problems with AC97 soundcards, and I have tried a lot of different drivers - Realtek, C-Media, nothing seems to work. I've done google searches, basically I can't figure out what to do next - I'm sure its not a hardware problem. It's enabled in the BIOS (and its definately an AC97 as it says so in the bios), volume controls are all up to full, I'm sure its just a matter of finding the right driver.

I have typed in the motherboard type (ms6526) and found a site which listed all the drivers for it (realtek), I have tried these drivers and had no luck - still no sound.

Anyway, its a Elonex branded motherboard/bios if that helps, here's the Belarc stats, I would really, really appreciate it if someone could work their magic and help me out with the correct driver....

Thanks in advance!


Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Elonex PLC MS-6526
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.70 gigahertz Intel Celeron
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
128 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6526
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 07/15/2003
Drives Memory Modules c,d
48.46 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
41.32 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ARTEC WRR-52Z [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

ST340015A [Hard drive] (40.02 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 5LA0D2A8, rev 3.01, SMART Status: Healthy
ST38421A [Hard drive] (8.46 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 6BD0QDK5, rev 6.01, SMART Status: Healthy 384 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM1' has 256 MB
Slot 'DIMM2' has 128 MB
Local Drive Volumes


c: (NTFS on drive 0) 40.01 GB 33.81 GB free
e: (NTFS on drive 1) 8.45 GB 7.51 GB free
Network Drives
None detected

hp deskjet 3820 series on LPT1:
Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Intel(R) 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CB
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT (Microsoft Corporation) [Display adapter]
DELL E152FP [Monitor] (14.9"vis, s/n P145743Q0K7UC, March 2004)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller - 24CD
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C2
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C4
Intel(R) 82801DB/DBM USB Universal Host Controller - 24C7 MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device
Multimedia Audio Controller
Standard Game Port
Communications Other Devices

Alcatel SpeedTouch USB ADSL PPP
Speed Touch 330 ADSL Modem
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
USB Root Hub (4x)