No Sound

[Milne65]

Hello people - never used this before but got a problem so here goes. PC has no sound and starts up with new hardware wizard stating a problem with multimedia audio controller and cannot locate software to fix. Device manager shows a yellow question mark next to multimedia audio controller and no audio devices. I no longer have drivers as PC is a hand-me-down. Ran belarc to get systems spec, the results are as follows;

Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Processor a 2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache Drives 250.05 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
233.22 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SONY DVD RW AW-G170A [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

System Model MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-7125 3.0
Enclosure Type: Desktop Main Circuit Board b Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-7125 3.0
Bus Clock: 201 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 07/21/2006 Memory Modules c,d 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory


PLEASE HELP ME RESOLVE THIS.

[bookworm]

Originally Posted by Milne65

Hello people - never used this before but got a problem so here goes. PC has no sound and starts up with new hardware wizard stating a problem with multimedia audio controller and cannot locate software to fix. Device manager shows a yellow question mark next to multimedia audio controller and no audio devices. I no longer have drivers as PC is a hand-me-down. Ran belarc to get systems spec, the results are as follows;

Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Processor a 2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64
256 kilobyte primary memory cache
2048 kilobyte secondary memory cache Drives 250.05 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
233.22 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SONY DVD RW AW-G170A [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

System Model MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-7125 3.0
Enclosure Type: Desktop Main Circuit Board b Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-7125 3.0
Bus Clock: 201 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 07/21/2006 Memory Modules c,d 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory


PLEASE HELP ME RESOLVE THIS.

The MSI MS-7125 motherboard has Realtek ALC850 AC'97 audio go here
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false

download the (Executable file) save to desktop, double click to install

The site is slow

SET A SYSTEM RESTORE POINT BEFORE INSTALLING JUST IN CASE

Hope this helps